|
Some of these posts are very old and might contain outdated information. You may wish to search for newer posts instead.
|
FungusMan
I81U812
Registered: 08/06/05
Posts: 3,112
Loc: Everywhere
|
Mycological Career?
#5648213 - 05/18/06 10:40 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Ever since I started this amazing hobby, I have become infatuated with everything mycological. I would LOVE to legally make money whilst enjoying this science. What kind of work IS there in the world of mycology?
|
beyondsisxth
Title?
Registered: 04/08/05
Posts: 232
Last seen: 12 years, 8 months
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: FungusMan]
#5648412 - 05/18/06 11:23 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
For the small time entrepreneur, here is a link from the National Sustainable Agriculture Information Service that goes over professional cultivation and marketing for mushroom.
http://www.attra.org/attra-pub/mushroom.html
-------------------- The sun was pulling cheap shots doing commercial body tricks, Behind the back, Under the leg, I think he even did a headspin, On a crossfader that sounded whack, But looked excellent, All of the sudden it gets dim, The crater face steps in, Puts mexican drumbreaks on the Technics, He's like "Let's begin", He conducted an orchestra so dope the sun started sweatin' him, I guess he'd expected to win on pure artistic merit, Composing complex plays with nothin but soundbytes, Burned out the lights, Made MCs too self conscious quit the master mics, For a thousand nights, It continued without a single slip up, Except once the record skipped, But it kinda sounded cool.
|
fastfred
Old Hand
Registered: 05/17/04
Posts: 6,899
Loc: Dark side of the moon
|
|
You can grow mushrooms, be a consultant for mushroom growers, get a PhD and do your own research, or work in a mycology lab for someone else. I'm sure that there are plenty of other ways to make legal money at it.
A couple of years ago I read about a program that someone had to teach the practical and business aspects or growing and preparing extracts from medicinal mushrooms. It seemed like a pretty cool and sophisticated program. I think the main idea was that there are a ton of very high dollar products you can get out of medicinal mushrooms. They're used for research and treatments for various illnesses. The idea was to make a high-grade finished product by growing various mushrooms and using column chromatography to separate the extracts into different fractions. It seemed like a very good program. I can't seem to remember where I came across it. Maybe it was from the FMRC, but I'm not sure. Maybe someone can help?
-FF
-------------------- It drinks the alcohol and abstains from the weed or else it gets the hose again. -Chemy The difference between the substances doesn't matter. This is a war on consciousness, on our right to the very essence of what we are. With no control over that, we have no need to speak of freedom or a free society. -fireseed "If we are going to have a war on marijuana, the least we can do is pull the sick and the dying off the battlefield." -Neal Levine (MPP) I find the whole "my drug should be legal but yours should be illegal" mindset disgusting and hypocritical. It's what George Bush and company do when they drink a cocktail and debate the best way to imprison marijuana users. -Diploid
|
Edgekrusher
God
Registered: 10/10/05
Posts: 674
Last seen: 17 years, 3 months
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: fastfred]
#5659668 - 05/22/06 10:51 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
yeah, medicinal sciences would be the way to go. I'm also considering changing majors. Probably won't though, but it's still a fine hobby. Still, taking a year off to consider my options.
|
toole
white-thumb (Onewhackmycophiliac)
Registered: 05/01/06
Posts: 500
Loc: spore #1203 - bas 2.34 - ...
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: Edgekrusher]
#5660149 - 05/22/06 01:21 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Yea, I took a few years solo to work on my own-but I am apprenticing myself to becoming a mycologist. Hoping to attend school in a few years and one day maybe a PhD
-------------------- -the adventures of suse and prescott.9- ..and the neverending triscut of doom !
|
Schwip
Never sleeps.
Registered: 06/27/05
Posts: 3,937
Last seen: 11 years, 4 months
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: FungusMan]
#5660990 - 05/22/06 05:08 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Having a large mushroom farm is actually quite a labor intensive business venture.
Ever see that show 'dirty jobs'? they did one on a button mushroom farm. pretty neat.
-------------------- -------------------------------- " If the sky were to suddenly open up there would be no law. There would be no rule. There would only be you and your memories... the choices you've made, and the people you've touched. If this world were to end there would only be you and him and no-one else. " .............. "MAN! You know there aint no such thing as left over crack!"
|
ohmatic
searcher
Registered: 02/28/04
Posts: 6,742
Loc: europe
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: Schwip]
#5662979 - 05/23/06 03:53 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
you know, i also have been thinking about making cash legally with this great hobby for quite some time now.
the only problem is, the hobby i fun, but will the work be fun once its everyday business ?
i can imagine that once your living is based on mycological work, itll soon just be as any other job, routinous, boring, all the same, everyday. its the small line between the hobby and the job that actually carries the fascination and i think that it would cease to fascinate pretty soon.
-------------------- MONOTUB tek HEATBOMB tek RIP #cultivation! ....can't associate? well FUCK U !
|
RogerRabbit
Bans for Pleasure
Registered: 03/26/03
Posts: 42,214
Loc: Seattle
Last seen: 1 year, 1 month
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: ohmatic]
#5663291 - 05/23/06 08:24 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
A large mushroom farm is a tremendous amount of work. You can't possibly run one single handed, because selling mushrooms wholesale for $2/pound means you need to have several truckloads leaving your premises every day. Who wants to deal with employees not showing up for work, or the air conditioning system going out just as the shiitakes are pinning, or to go to all the work to get an operation going just to find out they can import mushrooms from China for cheaper than you can grow them. . .Personally, I'll just keep my day job and stick to hobby growing. lol RR
-------------------- Download Let's Grow Mushrooms semper in excretia sumus solim profundum variat "I've never had a failed experiment. I've only discovered 10,000 methods which do not work." Thomas Edison
|
Edgekrusher
God
Registered: 10/10/05
Posts: 674
Last seen: 17 years, 3 months
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: RogerRabbit]
#5663652 - 05/23/06 10:43 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
There are tons of mycological careers other than being a commercial grower. Thats just the first, and seemingly only, idea that pops through most heads.
|
toole
white-thumb (Onewhackmycophiliac)
Registered: 05/01/06
Posts: 500
Loc: spore #1203 - bas 2.34 - ...
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: Edgekrusher]
#5663920 - 05/23/06 11:38 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Seriously-look at the scientific fields opposed to the commercial ones. Sitting in a lab all day long crossing mushrooms and experimenting (aka having fun?) And on the side growing psilocybin mushrooms -
..uh count me in?
-------------------- -the adventures of suse and prescott.9- ..and the neverending triscut of doom !
|
demiu5
humans, lol
Registered: 08/18/05
Posts: 43,948
Loc: the popcorn stadium
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: toole]
#5664309 - 05/23/06 12:57 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Are there any schools (universities) that don't require calculus and such for their biology program/mycology majors? Because calculus is the main thing standing in my way of pursuing this. At this point, I'm going to go into agriculture and see if I can find a backdoor in, if not I'll stick to botany as a profession and mycology as a hobby.
Also, despite the hardwork and annoyances, I'd love to work at or run a mushroom farm. I'd never get tired of it.
-------------------- channel your inner Larry David
|
mycofile
Pooh-Bah
Registered: 01/18/99
Posts: 2,336
Loc: Uranus
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: demiu5]
#5664699 - 05/23/06 02:10 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
There is always the fmrc's mail order phd in mycology. But seriously, what's wrong with calculus? Surely if you're able to get through genetics you can get through calculus....
-------------------- "From a certain point of view" -Jedi Master Obi Wan Kenobi PM me with any cultivation questions. I just looked at my profile and realized I had a website at one point in time on geocities, it's not there anymore and I have no idea what I had on it. Anybody remember my website from several years aga? PM if so please.
|
demiu5
humans, lol
Registered: 08/18/05
Posts: 43,948
Loc: the popcorn stadium
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: mycofile]
#5664749 - 05/23/06 02:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Haven't taken genetics yet and probably won't since I'm not going into Biology. I hate genetics and microbiology. The cellular level is less interesting to me as opposed to working with live plants/fungi, but I do have a small interest in it.
-------------------- channel your inner Larry David
|
mycogirl
goddamn
Registered: 07/03/05
Posts: 1,135
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: demiu5]
#5665213 - 05/23/06 03:50 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Some schools allow a statistical math course opposed to a calc class, but I feel you have not considered a few important items.
1. No one gets an undergrad degree in mycology. They usually do botany or biology then go to PhD programs for mycology.
2. Even if you don't have to take calc, you have to take organic chem. That is much more of a killer than calc.
3. You also have to take physics. If you can't handle calc, good luck with physics.
4. As a part of item 1, to go to graduate school for mycology, the school is probably going to want to see calc, even if it wasn't a req. for you undergrad.
As a side note, maybe you should consider starting a small business producing eatables for local restaurants and markets. This seems like much more of the niche you are seeking.
--------------------
Edited by mycogirl (05/23/06 03:50 PM)
|
SenselessRebel
Stranger
Registered: 05/20/06
Posts: 189
Last seen: 17 years, 5 months
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: mycogirl]
#5665498 - 05/23/06 04:56 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
toole, most deff the thing im shooting for. i love the idea of sitting in a lab and crossing shrooms and plants and experimenting with genetics im right there with you toole -SenselessRebel
|
Holydiver
Stranger
Registered: 03/19/01
Posts: 5,156
Loc: The midnight sea
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: demiu5]
#5665704 - 05/23/06 05:49 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Calculus is 90% hype, you can do anything you put your mind to. I almost quit working towards my dream job because of calculus and physics, but instead buckled down and pulled it off with flying colors--and so can you.
As far as making money with this hobby goes, I've contemplated the same thing until really considering PC'ing and making spawn bags and all day, laying endless tubs of compost, and doing whatever it takes to grow commercial shrooms...but it just doesn't sound like it's worth the switch from a normal job. It's something to get you through the day as a hobby, but seems to me that it would not be so enjoyable 24/7. Who knows though, a small percentage of business owners are doing what they truly love, and that's definitely the place to be. Maybe it's possible to find that kind of happiness with this hobby turned business. Let me know if it is that good, because I'm there.
|
FungusMan
I81U812
Registered: 08/06/05
Posts: 3,112
Loc: Everywhere
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: Holydiver]
#5667560 - 05/24/06 03:00 AM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
The type of career I had in mind was not in running my own business in cultivation. I just want to know what choices I would/could make after spending outrageous sums of cash for school. What I mean is, is there a demand for mycologists? Is it economically a good carrer tree?
|
toole
white-thumb (Onewhackmycophiliac)
Registered: 05/01/06
Posts: 500
Loc: spore #1203 - bas 2.34 - ...
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: FungusMan]
#5668842 - 05/24/06 01:32 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Nothing in the sciences will be a top "economically' good carreer tree"
Find what you love-then learn how to make money from it.
If you like to sit in a lab do it.
If you like to cultivate crops of mushrooms do that.
Pretty much any activity that you can give a name can be profitable-just depends how much you want to work.
-------------------- -the adventures of suse and prescott.9- ..and the neverending triscut of doom !
|
debianlinux
Myconerd - DBK
Registered: 12/09/02
Posts: 8,334
Loc: Over There
Last seen: 8 months, 30 days
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: ohmatic]
#5669675 - 05/24/06 06:26 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Quote:
ohmatic said: its the small line between the hobby and the job that actually carries the fascination and i think that it would cease to fascinate pretty soon.
There is still the excitement and fascination of growing and maintaining your own sucessful business that cannot be contrived from a typical wage slave job.
I think the biggest killer would be failure to innovate. Once successful techniques are in place the fascination comes from experimenting with possibilities in efficiency, labor-saving and yield enhancements. With fungus there are innumerable paths to fruit.
|
demiu5
humans, lol
Registered: 08/18/05
Posts: 43,948
Loc: the popcorn stadium
|
Re: Mycological Career? [Re: debianlinux]
#5669902 - 05/24/06 07:16 PM (17 years, 10 months ago) |
|
|
Actually, I like creating life, or at least giving life the ability to be created...that's why I want to do it; therefore, if not mycology, botany is fine with me.
I also agree with
Quote:
debianlinux said:
Once successful techniques are in place the fascination comes from experimenting with possibilities in efficiency, labor-saving and yield enhancements.
That's the science edge I enjoy.
|
|