Interview 26791 – Caption Index: 48
When did you get your next promotion?… Read More
When did you get your next promotion?… Read More
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… Read More
Yeah, so I moved up in the grounds crew to a couple levels. And then they put out bid sheets for jobs coming up. And the wild animal park was in its very early stages. There were no animals out there. It was beginning to be built. So in the… Read More
And that was just his tenacity and his wanting the zoo to always look the best it could. So I found it a really exciting place to work and a place that, you know, I wanted to be. And people were great, the staff was great. And when you have… Read More
How did you, or when, the year, if you have?… Read More
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I mean, my impression at that time, it was animals all over, you know, things I’d never seen before, birds I’d never seen before. It was an exciting place even though on the grounds crew, you felt really engaged in the facility. And the then-director, Dr. Schroeder would walk the… Read More
And I remember my boss getting messages from Schroeder and we’d hear about it the next day saying, how come this area wasn’t cleaned up?… Read More
And what about this and what about that?… Read More
They kept me on the grounds crew after he came back, yeah. Read More
When you started at the San Diego Zoo, what kind of zoo did you find?… Read More
Can you describe it?… Read More
Well, at that time in San Diego, if you got that call, you took the job because getting into the San Diego Zoo is very difficult. Good thing is they worked with you on your school schedules and all of that. They were very, very generous when it came to… Read More
They kept you on the grounds crew?… Read More
How did you get this job?… Read More
Well, I applied. So my application was on file and a gentleman in the department had to leave for bereavement leave. And I was just the next one in line. Read More
They called me up and said, you’ve got a job for two weeks, do you want it?… Read More
What was your first job there?… Read More
Picking up paper on Cinco de Mayo, which I thought I might’ve made a mistake, ’cause that’s a day when the zoo is extremely busy and there’s a sea of trash, you know, and your job, you’re given an area, is to keep it clean and make it look nice. Read More
And I’ve been able to coach other people in that process as well, saying, are you sure you want to do this?… Read More