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Just out of Curiosity, What do any of you do for a living?

Some of us younger members might not be able to say anything....Yet.
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I'm the Area Manager for the Australian section of our zoo. I also chair the safety committee & order all of the produce for the zoo. I maintain the North American studbook for both Eastern and Western grey kangaroos, and have done work on a studbook for striped possums.
In my spare time I volunteer at an elementary school, working with kindergarten students, talking to them about animals. I have 7 grandchildren, one husband, and a spoiled schnauzer named Savannah.
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I work in 2 Aquarium Shops and in a small wildlife park as education.
I am incharge of all the fish ordering at one store and just work 1 day a week at teh other. At the park i am starting to organised a school program starting next year, including overnight camping stays.
See young people have lots to say!
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rookeyper, can you confirm that the cotswold wildlife park in england have a pair of striped possum and are there any more in Europe.
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I teach chemistry, general science and animal care (usually aquatics) at a tertiary college (for students of 16+).

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I am a farmer. I run Fallow deer and sheep as well as cropping.
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i am a zookeeper to be!

I work at the local fruit veg shop, great money, despite new pay cuts (I.R laws, but i still like howard, rudd has never run a local council let alonbe a bloody 1.1 trillion dollar economy!) i was a full time student, until wednesday, when I COMPLETED THE HSC! Now i am a full time drinker! well for this week anyway,. then i am into to full time at veggie shop for 6 months, then a full time traveller, then a full time student again in wagga wagga, well thats the plan anyway!
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Wow, you are all so hardworking you make me feel like a bludger!

I'm a retired water board inspector (40 years with Sydney Water.) In retirement, I keep and breed parrots and finches (I have 16 aviaries in my back yard.) I also have a small fish room where I keep african and neotropical cichlids, and the smaller south american catfishes.

I've been a total zoo addict my whole life, much to the consternation of, first, my parents, then my wife, and then my kids. (My grandkids however don't mind at all!)
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i still like howard, rudd has never run a local council let alonbe a bloody 1.1 trillion dollar economy!
right.... and john howard had run a local council before he was elected into federal parliament? i suppose he took a crash course in how to be a prime minister before he was elected to that position also eh?

because saying that a prospective PM is inexperienced is a valid argument when in the entire history of australia only one single person has been elected as prime minister with prior experience (that was menzies).

get what i'm saying? i'll spell it out for ya because thats a very ignorant statement...

virtually no politician, including john howard has ever had experience at being a prime minister before they are elected one.

i'm not telling you to vote labor Zoo_Boy, i'm just wondering why on your first voting foray, for the first time in your life you have a say in how the country and thus world operates, your voting for a governement with an abominable environmental record.

correct me if i'm wrong but i thought you and i quote "prefer the company of animals over people"...

i assume your content with animals in cages, because should people continue to vote like you intend there won't be an environment left for them...

i'll be honest, it absolutely astounds me that there are people in australia and on this forum that have the intellect to realise that the environment is the number one biggest issue in the world (whether you think so because you care about preserving wildlife or simply ourselves) and yet they still vote for political parties that positively do little or nothing about it.

don't you realise that politics is very much intertwinded with the very thing you say you love zoos for - conservation.

you can plant all the trees you like but i sincerely doubt it make up for the vote you gave a government that just approved another timber mill in tasmania. or has refused to ratify an agreement to tackle climate change.

voting is the simplest, and most effective impact on change there is to make kiddo.

don't &*%@ it up!
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VERY well said Pat, could not of put it better myself
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back to what we do, I am a librarian and have a flea market stall selling plants.
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Kiang--
I just did an informal studbook and didn't request information from any of the institutions, so I didn't know about animals at Cotswold. To my knowledge there are no others in Europe kept in institutions that report to ISIS. At this point in time we have 6 animals on grounds. There are 13 others in the US. We have a young male who will be leaving quarantine tomorrow that we plan to pair with our young female.
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Well, if were gonna drag the thread off into politics, let me say that the single biggest problem facing the world today is TOO MANY PEOPLE!

Drop the world's population to about 5% of what it is today, and there'd be plenty of space for all, people AND wildlife.

(The trouble is, I know the problem, but I don't know the solution; war? plague? AIDS?
All a bit nasty.)

Back to the thread. And what do you do for a living?
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i'm an animator/commercial artist.
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Am a civil engineer currently working on some major highways schemes in england and a few smaller highway jobs in north wales.

But hope to maybe transfer into structures and animal housing design.
 


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