I was a biologist. And that’s about the limit of my skill sets was that I was a biologist, and I would advise anybody getting into a zoo or aquarium work these days to think ahead. And while they’re in college to take other courses, prepare themselves for having to be business managers, being able to read a financial report, perhaps taken an education program or two, because if you have long-range plans, you’re going to be responsible for picking out people on your staff that are knowledgeable in all of these areas. I wasn’t, when I started, I didn’t know a debit from a credit. And I would also say, if you think you’re going into aquarium work, or going into zoo work, that you learned something about the animals they’re gonna be exhibited in those disparate institutions. You know, when I joined AAZPA, I thought, for example, that rat tights were leotards for Mickey mouse and I had to learn differently, but I did. and I think I learned a lot about zoos and the animals in them.
