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Sun, 09/25/2005 - 19:38Depends on the job.
A research geologist working for an oil exploration company will work standard hours (35-37 per week, plus overtime every now and again). Someone I know works on a rig, checking the chippings from drilling. He works 12 hour days, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.
A field geologist would work 12 hours or so in the field (depending on light and how it was going), but standard office hours when in the office. Field work can last a few months, camping...or can be a few days in swish hotels (and the other way around, too, but not often 
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Sun, 09/25/2005 - 19:54Depends on the job.
A research geologist working for an oil exploration company will work standard hours (35-37 per week, plus overtime every now and again). Someone I know works on a rig, checking the chippings from drilling. He works 12 hour days, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.
A field geologist would work 12 hours or so in the field (depending on light and how it was going), but standard office hours when in the office. Field work can last a few months, camping...or can be a few days in swish hotels (and the other way around, too, but not often )
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Jon
Yeah that helped, thanks. 
If that's 12 hours in the field how many breaks do you get?
A few months. :shock: Gosh.
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Mon, 09/26/2005 - 09:46You can take breaks whenever you want usually! Field work isn't usually rigid timetables - just a set of tasks that need to be done. This of course depends exactly what's trying to be accomplished and who's in charge.
Try the BGS website (www.bgs.ac.uk) to see if they give a job description for a field geologist.
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Mon, 10/03/2005 - 19:45You can take breaks whenever you want usually! Field work isn't usually rigid timetables - just a set of tasks that need to be done. This of course depends exactly what's trying to be accomplished and who's in charge.
Try the BGS website (www.bgs.ac.uk) to see if they give a job description for a field geologist.
Jon
I wasn't completely serious about the break thing.
What's the path toward doing research projects? Do you need years of experience, an msc, or if I'm naive in asking can a bsc get you started off? Would you be likely to find steady work?
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Fri, 10/07/2005 - 20:26You can be like me, without any qualifications to speak off, yet I got a job in a mine as a grizzly man. Good wages too. Not the ideal job for many people.
Gus
If I can be a miner in some of those picturesque locations, then I'm interested.
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Sat, 10/15/2005 - 13:43You can be like me, without any qualifications to speak off, yet I got a job in a mine as a grizzly man. Good wages too. Not the ideal job for many people.
Gus
Might also be good to have a rummage around in the spoil heaps!
I got some good Galena specimenf from the old mines in the Lake District!
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Submitted by Anonymous on Sat, 09/24/2005 - 17:14.this time about the hours you spend at work. Does every job type in geology demand long hours? I read somewhere that one can expect somewhere from 5 to 8 hrs just in the field. :shock: Is this a common thing? And how often do you have to be away from home? (I love home)So basically my question is, do you get much rest in this line.