Finding Personal Alignment at Work
Work for Companies Working for the Planet
Save Our Happy Place is a climate action newsletter dedicated to making it easy for you to help protect the places you love from climate change, written by Lindsay Nunez. Read on for simple yet effective climate actions, and sustainable + eco-friendly lifestyle tips.
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Hey there sunshine! Welcome back to Save Our Happy Place. Week to week we discuss simple, tangible, ways to integrate sustainability and activism into our lives - but are you ready to take it to the next level? Are you ready to dedicate 40 hours a week to help save the planet? Building a career in the climate universe is a rewarding and meaningful step in anyone’s climate journey and this week we’re discussing how to take the plunge.
While all jobs can be climate jobs, and we’ll get more into that in our next edition, sometimes fighting for change within a system that has no interest in changing can be exhausting, demoralizing, and lead to burnout. Your vigor for protecting the planet may end up generating a much larger impact at a company already looking to make a difference as opposed to one dead set on maintaining the status quo. Switching to a company that has sustainability as a pillar of its mission is a great way to utilize your time, energy, and skills in pursuit of a greener tomorrow.
Your Skillset
Switching career paths is intimidating at best. Especially within the climate space, there is a bit of a misconception that being a climate scientist, engineer, or nature buff is the only way in. I’m here to tell you that, adjusting our ways of being in order to mitigate the worst effects of climate change will touch every facet of our lives. There is no industry that will go untouched and will require everyone to get on board. That means your skillset will be an asset to a company out there focusing on climate. Marketers, tech, teachers, artists, writers, health care, you name it - your skills and know-how are needed in the climate space. Going back to school is not required.
Personally, I was previously working for a digital marketing agency and transitioned to working for a company that has sustainability as a pillar of their business. I now get to spend my days talking about sustainability and how to communicate about it without having to change my skillset.
Make the Switch
Ready to put your passions and energy toward organizations looking to build our greener future?
Check out this crowd-sourced, master list of resources to help find a job in climate curated by Nicole Kelner. From job boards to accelerator programs and everything in between.
If you’re interested in the tech space, check out this Climate Tech Map curated by Yin Lu of My Climate Journey. This can help you navigate to companies that meet your tech abilities with the corner of the climate universe that interests you.
You’re doing good work, Lindsay. Literally!