What classes should I take in?” They had no idea. They had no idea because they were strictly academics. And later on in years when I started work at the zoo and I kept in touch with my professors, when they would have students, undergrad students who said, “I wanna work in the zoo,” and there were some, they would call me and say, “Mark, can you talk to them and guide them because you know what’s going on, we have no clue.” And so I kind of became at least for Southern Illinois University Zoology, which I took, I kind of became the go-to person for those people interested in a zoo career as opposed to an academic career. And there were some people that later went into the profession based on my first touching base with them, so to speak, of what they needed to do that. That had to be pretty personally rewarding to be able to. Oh, it was, oh yeah, because I had never gotten the help that I needed. And so I was grateful that I could give people, you know, everybody needs, you know, what they say, pioneers get the arrows, I could give them the benefit of my experience so they didn’t have to have the missteps I had and they could maybe go a little directly to what they wanted to do. Yeah. Sure.
