It was hot, and dusty, and dirty. And so I applied and didn’t get the first job but got the second one that I applied for. And it was like, holy cow, I’ve never done anything like this. But they didn’t want anybody with experience because this was gonna be such a new way of managing animals that they didn’t want some old habits following people out. So you took all the jiding, and the kidding, and you know, you’re crazy for going out there, and, oh, the zoo will be here when you come back, don’t worry, you know. And I never looked back. And it was, I mean, there were days where you’d go home totally exhausted. You were out there working in the hot sun but you didn’t care, ’cause it was such a cool place.
