A TRUE STORY

I didn’t start WorkCabin.ca way back in 2007 because I saw a market opportunity.
I started it because I wanted to belong in conservation — and for a while, I wasn’t sure I ever would.

My original goal was to become a Wildlife Technician. Fieldwork. Muddy boots. Data sheets. Work that mattered. When I applied to college, I was wait-listed, and that single moment quietly rerouted my path.

I stayed close to conservation however I could — gaining field experience, volunteering, learning how organizations actually work. Over time, I became a full-time conservation filmmaker and to this day I work with some of Canada’s largest conservation organizations and many small nonprofits to create nature films and wildlife research documentaries that make an impact for nature. I also served on the board of a Canadian biosphere region, where I saw firsthand how hard it can be to find the right people for conservation work.

Again and again, I noticed the same problem: job boards felt generic, detached, corporate, and disconnected when it came to actually being connected to conservation.

I built WorkCabin.ca to be the kind of place I wish had existed when I was trying to break in — rooted in real conservation experience, respectful of both employers and job seekers, and understanding that conservation careers are rarely linear.

Over the years, I’ve had the privilege of standing on stages like the Latornell Conservation Symposium to do a seminar, and Forest Ontario’s Envirothon to do a keynote, and leading workshops, and being a guest speaker for countless conservation organizations, including Birds Canada, The Nature Conservancy of Canada, Conservation Ontario, Canada’s Emerging Leaders for Biodiversity, to name just a few. I’ve run résumé workshops and career panels. I’ve spoken with aspiring biologists, ecologists, wildlife technicians, communicators, and land stewards who were all asking some version of the same question: “How do I actually get into this field?”

WorkCabin became my way of answering that…..not with theory, but with lived understanding. I know what it feels like to want this work badly. I know how confusing the pathways can be. And I know how much stronger conservation becomes when the right people find their way into the right roles.

To me, generalist or multi-sector job boards feel like a megaphone. WorkCabin is a campfire.

People don’t change the world around megaphones.
They do it around campfires.

Thanks for being part of the WorkCabin ecosystem… and making it all possible for 19 years and counting.