{"id":1424,"date":"2022-05-09T13:27:56","date_gmt":"2022-05-09T20:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/?p=1424"},"modified":"2023-10-23T14:04:54","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T21:04:54","slug":"lillis-co-op-journey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/lillis-co-op-journey\/","title":{"rendered":"Lilli’s co-op journey"},"content":{"rendered":"

What is your academic program?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I am in the Biology program<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where did you work?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Working with Canadian Wildlife Service and Environment and Climate Change Canada as a Wildlife Technician doing bird surveys in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan and the southern grasslands of Alberta. There I was essentially just counting birds and that was super fun.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I am working right now as an educator and animal care assistant at a marine education centre on the Sunshine coast. I take care of a wide range of marine animals, and I teach kids about marine biology.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u00a0Why did you join co-op?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I joined in the first place to get work experience. I was in my third year and thought I should probably get some experience<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

How did co-op meet your expectations?<\/strong><\/p>\n

I wouldn\u2019t have known where to get these jobs so it has helped me find these jobs and also know what is out there. I am way better at writing a resume and cover letter now and have gotten to do a couple of different jobs which are nice to try different stuff.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What have been your favourite aspects of your co-op experiences?<\/strong><\/p>\n

All of my field work was the best experience ever! It confirmed that conservation research is the route I want to take. Up in the boreal forest having tons of wildlife encounters with bears, wolves, and moose was super cool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

My current job has been awesome as well being able to work hands-on with a bunch of different animals. I get to feed every single anemone by hand! But yea all the hands-on work has been my favourite.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Do you have any advice for future co-op students?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Apply to tons of jobs, be open-minded with your new job. I know with pretty much every coop I have done, going into the interview I thought that I would never take this job if offered and always ended up accepting. I never thought I would move to Saskatchewan in a million years, and I am so glad I did.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So, apply to things that you might not expect yourself to enjoy. For the four-month coops, it might be daunting to move away for four months but you can literally do anything for four months, it is really not that long<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What is your academic program? I am in the Biology program Where did you work? Working with Canadian Wildlife Service and Environment and Climate Change Canada as a Wildlife Technician doing bird surveys in the boreal forest of Saskatchewan and the southern grasslands of Alberta. There I was essentially just counting birds and that was […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":856,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journeys"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/856"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1424"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1768,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1424\/revisions\/1768"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/onlineacademiccommunity.uvic.ca\/sciencecoop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}