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and how hard is it to actually get work in the field itself? You know, I reckon I would probably actually enjoy WRITING about excursions like that; let the smart people do the research etc, I'll take all that stuff and make it into something the everyday person could read and enjoy. I remember when I first started getting interesting in nature when I was like 6 or 7, there were almost no books about wildlife/ecology that were easy for a lay-person to understand (at age 7 I was reading at a 16 year old level, not blowing my horn, it's just facts, it doesn't make me smart, it just means I read and comprehend well). What I adored were magazine like Nat Geo and books by people like Gerard Durrell; they made the natural world accessable for someone like me, I loved how those writers could take something quite complicated and possibly boring to the not-nature-mad, like the breeding cycle of bees say, and make it into something REAL. I loved the photos that froze moments in time and showed you the intricacy of a bee flying, or how the muscles on a cheetah worked, or how a deers' hooves spread to take it's weight over snow. You know? I wish I could do something like that. But with a million and one much better writers and photographers than I, and with far more charisma, I haven't a hope. I really don't think I have the brains to be a biologist or anything like that, and chemistry is just a foreign language I have never been able to comprehend no matter how hard I try.