Do this job only if you truly care about paleomicrobiology, botany and geology.

There's a lot of math, a lot of museum curio and a lot of teaching or writing. It's a mess but if you like the one time a year you get to party with dinosaurs it's worth it

Paleontology is good work.
If you make the right connections.
I know two friends into paleo shit.
They mostly do lab work on chickens and sometimes to field work.

Pretty much, you need to make connections.
Find a lab.
Get in there deep.
Then you got a job.

If you're some kind of loner who can't network, you're fucked.
But that's true of anything academic