Well, I was in high school, I needed money to go on dates to buy gas for the car, volunteer job, wasn’t gonna do it. And, and I also was, you know, from my experience going to the zoo, I was really interested in, in working as a, working as a keeper, potentially working in the zoo and getting my experience with animals and, and with veterinarians that way. And so, you know, right, actually before I finished high school, I applied for a job at the St. Louis Zoo and their response was, well, of course you wanna be a keeper. Everybody wants to keep be a keeper in the children’s zoo. You have to prove yourself first. So you did that by working in one of the refreshment stands. And so I spent a summer rolling hot dogs and selling balloons and making cotton candy and that sort of thing.
