im 17 yrs old, andon my final year of A-levels, which im currently doin history As level, and a Retail full A level in 1 year.

reptiles and animals have held my interest all my life, nothing else ever has, so i was wondering what jobs there are that involve reptiles and pay a good wage? and how to get into them?

Good wage and animals = vet, anything else isnt great money.

In terms of getting into them it now varies some places want a degree such as certain zoos and being a vet others prefer more hands on experience such as reptile shops and smaller zoo's. Id look at whats in your local area and has reptiles and contact them asking for voluntary work, work experience or even a job, an exotic vets and reptile shops are good places to start.

its hard to get a good paid job working with animals, not impossible but very hard

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For me the only way to work with animals on some level and still earn good money is as a licnesed animal technician however there are only a select few reptile/amphibians involved if at at some time points

you only work with animals if you love them (im hoping to) apart from vets NONE jobs are as good pay as say a teacher

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i agree, but being an animal lover cant be the only thing, you will have to be able to care for an animal and keep it on a work level and not to get attached to the animals.

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Its hard enough getting a job with animals with crap pay.

Finished my ND in animal management at full marks in july and still without an animal job lol and i dont care about the pay

If you've got any savings how bout going on a voluntary trip to work with reps? Real gap has some ace ones

seems like the only way is to have your own business

Have to disagree with that, our seniors and team leaders are taking home 50+ and as licences are bringing home between 30 and 40k anually.

I dont think thats too bad

im 17 on my final year of a levels as well. I work in a reptile shop but im currently working with the fish. For a weekends work i get about £80 which i dnt think is bad money at all and its really good fun. Hoping to get into the reptile section at some point but im quite happy with where i am atm.

The way to get good pay in a shop is being able to know about everything in the shop so u can work in many different areas, then the shop needs you so therefore they will pay you more.

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Excuse my ignorance but what sort of job is that?

Lee - £80 a weekend is what, £40 a day. So 5 days a week is £200, a month = £800, so a year without any holidays is £9600. Not a great wage considering i could shelf stack at Tesco and get more.