→ For this blog entry, I calculated a budget plan that accounts for my needs and expectations, their monetary requirements, and how I plan to pay for these requirements so that I live a fruitful life here on Earth for the next bundle of years. Researching the field of wildlife biology, which is where I wish to major upon graduating from undergraduate education at UC Berkeley, I stumbled across a job with the Department of Fish and Wildlife that is government secured and offers a whole bunch of research and chances to head out into the wilderness while being paid a handsome stipend - a combo that sounds appealing to a good number of my life goals as one who has read my blog should know. Not only would I work independently and with leniency in what I wish to study - so long as the subject pertains to ecology -, I would also earn more if I commit to graduate training. Luckily for me, the job, being a senior environmental scientist, is located right by UC San Diego, which has resources to a rewarding graduate program specializing in marine biology - a deeply-embedded love of mine - and in biology in general. In this way, opportunity would call me to live the first stage of my life in San Diego, by the coast, studying and working to make a living invested in my interests. Once finished with graduate training, I know not where else I will be heading, but I do know that the experience of juggling so much in southern California will empower me to be capable of most anything wherever I trek in this world.
The following link leads to a google doc in control of the aforementioned budget - treat it well with your eyes please:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1iQTsBSmRsdkJ9N6AyYrKISnKZgl8cs-vsmRV8pFelmI/edit#gid=0
→ As one can view in the excel spreadsheet listing my expenses and my survival through their pricing, I plan to hold two jobs while being in San Diego dipping my toes in my passion and investing more into my academic profile: being a barista at Starbucks and being a senior environmental scientist. The income provided my these two, as well as the interpersonal skills, experiences, and coffee benefits they obviously will encompass, will support me and my proposed lifestyle, and will allow me a stash in a bank account that will be used for future endeavors (i.e. traveling to an Icelandic village to study the migration routes of certain whales and to study the effects of global climate change on the biology of tundras).
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