Well there are lots of opportunities for someone with strong software skills in ocean related sciences. Some questions for you to consider are:
- do you want to develop tools or do research?
- do you want a career path with lots of field work and travel or desk jobs?
- do you want to work for a small business or large company?
If you can provide some insight to those questions, I can offer some suggestions to consider.
I work for a small company that has a unique technology with software and hardware components. We work with some huge organizations and have some really interesting projects and customers. I think I’ve seen a lot of aspects of the marine market and I work with commercial, governmental, and scientific sides of the marine market.
A few things I can say in general about the marine industry as it relates to software is I don’t think it is the highest paid career path but I think it has a very
high satisfaction rating. Maybe because there is something about the ocean that draws in certain types of people.
