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Discussion in 'Zoo Cafe' started by jusko88, 8 Mar 2013.

  1. Brum

    Brum Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Thanks but no thanks! ;)After 14+ years at Sainsbury's (like Walmart or Target) I'm done with retail, well in a grocery store anyway! :p
     
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  2. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    More or less the job I always hoped to get :p

    But as it happens, I work in a data entry position within the NHS Business Services Authority.
     
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  3. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Semiretired. I wash up part time in a restaurant to fund my activities. Last proper job was zoo keeper
     
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  4. Hipporex

    Hipporex Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Surviving the American education system (HS Junior)
     
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  5. Zia

    Zia Well-Known Member

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    Network Planning Analyst for a water company.
     
  6. Someokapinextdoor

    Someokapinextdoor Well-Known Member

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    I'm a software tester for 1.5 years now. I'm testing mostly interfaces that are related to exchanging public transport data between different software systems, both for busses and for trains and even ships sometimes.
     
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  7. Tetzoo Quizzer

    Tetzoo Quizzer Well-Known Member

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    Two years retired after being a Biology Teacher at an Independent School in the North West of England.
     
  8. Amphibiman

    Amphibiman Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Paralegal for lawyers specializing in environmental law while going to school to study ethology and hopefully find ways to use what I learn from that to increase the efficiency of enrichment for animals in zoological institutions, find better ways for animals to express their natural instincts within a zoo setting, find ways to make zoological exhibits better suited for their inhabitants and, in the end, find better ways to prepare species for possible reintroduction.
     
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  9. HungarianBison

    HungarianBison Well-Known Member

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    Just a student right now:)
     
  10. 9030

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    I work at a warehouse at a chemical plant
     
  11. PAKMan

    PAKMan Well-Known Member

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    Freelance reporter. I've been freelance ever since the company I worked for closed due to COVID and I've been looking for full-time employment ever since, but it's been challenging.
     
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  12. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Part time kitchen porter. Otherwise retired and devoted to my personal bird collection. I’ve been gardener, teacher, administrator, social worker and zookeeper over the years:)
     
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  13. Pootle

    Pootle Well-Known Member

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    TLD, We have both been on ZooChat for over a decade, I never thought or would have thought someone with your education or professionalism to be fair to anyone else would do data entry....


    Each to their own as it is :)
     
  14. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    I've been all of those things at the same job :D
     
  15. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    All those things for me were kind of preparation for zookeeping
     
  16. TeaLovingDave

    TeaLovingDave Moderator Staff Member 10+ year member

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    Well, after nearly a decade of unemployment I couldn't exactly be picky :p but it allows me to get an important task done whilst allowing me the free time and money to pursue my actual interests! So I cannot complain.

    But as noted, I always hoped/wanted to work in the museum and archival sector... just didn't work out that way.
     
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  17. PossumRoach

    PossumRoach Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I am having my last two classes I need online in order to get my AA. I have no plans for the future because I do not know how I want to proceed or where I want to live. I only have dreams. But what makes a dream a dream is that dreams cannot be real.
     
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  18. Pootle

    Pootle Well-Known Member

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    @TeaLovingDave never give up. I started a new business last October, bit of a chance to take but I did and loving it.:)
     
  19. Bengal Tiger

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    I am an 8th grade student, and I aspire to be either a zookeeper or some other kind of conservationist.
     
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  20. JT

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    I’m a sixth form student and I’ve recently got a job as a swimming coach for differently abled young people. The end goal is to become a zookeeper. :)
     
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