You're excited to land a spot on a research team headed off to monitor a newly-active volcano. You're less excited when an unexpected eruption nearly annihilates your base camp.

It's your first year on the job with a natural gas company. Things are going great until the project taints the drinking water of a whole county. Next thing you know, the company is making you the scapegoat, and your days of working for The Man are over and done with.

You spent years in school to be a seismologist, and now you've scored your first job working in a lab for a private research foundation. You thought it would be exciting to measure seismic waves that shatter the earth, but the only earth-shattering thing you've found is that you're now bored to tears on a daily basis.

You've got a solid job teaching geophysics at a respectable university. It still irks you, though, that some of your students are going to go off and make beaucoup more than you.

You've been working for years for a big oil company and have made lots of dough. Your life would be perfect if you didn't have to look at environmental activists picketing your corporate headquarters every day.