c&rdaze
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I noticed on another thread that several of you live in surrounding counties but work in St. Mary's. I live in St. Mary's but work in DC (Keller bus works pretty well). I'm starting to seriously look at retiring and doing something else for a while (the three hours a day commute is really getting old). Basically, I'm looking for ideas of what work possibilities are out there. I've looked casually at the PAXJOBS website but not seen any thing in the environmental field, everything seems to be engineering.
A little about my background: Working on my 35th year of Federal service. College background: BS- agronomy (crops and soils); MS- pesticides (mostly herbicides and insecticides); ABD- Entomology. Started at APG as an Entomologist running a gas chromatograph and served as Post Agronomist. Moved to EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (field testing insecticides, devices and environment and human pesticide monitoring); two years in a research environmental monitoring program; and the last 15 years in the central quality assurance office with QA oversight of EPA science activities. Also, active in farming. Sorry, probably TMI.
I'm interested in something that will get me out of the office at least part of the time. More interested in part time but would certainly consider full time for the right 'fun' job. (Need to finally have time to shoot some of my collection.)
I'm looking at sometime next calendar year to make this happen. I am a witness for EPA in a criminal case in Montana (for work I did in 1980) that I want to finish before I leave. I'm a subpoenaed witness and would have to go retired or not.
Thanks for any input. Sorry for the long post but this is something I need to get started or I'll still be here next year.
A little about my background: Working on my 35th year of Federal service. College background: BS- agronomy (crops and soils); MS- pesticides (mostly herbicides and insecticides); ABD- Entomology. Started at APG as an Entomologist running a gas chromatograph and served as Post Agronomist. Moved to EPA Office of Pesticide Programs (field testing insecticides, devices and environment and human pesticide monitoring); two years in a research environmental monitoring program; and the last 15 years in the central quality assurance office with QA oversight of EPA science activities. Also, active in farming. Sorry, probably TMI.
I'm interested in something that will get me out of the office at least part of the time. More interested in part time but would certainly consider full time for the right 'fun' job. (Need to finally have time to shoot some of my collection.)
I'm looking at sometime next calendar year to make this happen. I am a witness for EPA in a criminal case in Montana (for work I did in 1980) that I want to finish before I leave. I'm a subpoenaed witness and would have to go retired or not.
Thanks for any input. Sorry for the long post but this is something I need to get started or I'll still be here next year.
