BTW--If I could give a single piece of advice to the 20 year old version of myself, the one thing I'd says is "Take more risks." Not that I didn't take any, just that I could've taken more. When you are that young, you can fuck up in so many ways and still straighten out your life by the time you are 35. And if one of those risks early on pays off, you'll reap those rewards a lot longer. Now that I'm 36 and have a wife/dog/kids/mortgage, it's a lot harder to push any envelopes. Life risks I take now are much more couched in fall-back plans.
It would scare the shit out of me too. Sounds a little to aggressive. I would prefer to be the one making that big decision. Let me rephrase that.......you should be the one making that decision. Well if you wanted me to............
lol no, I'm speaking of the girl I would move to Colorado with, Jessica. She is also in the zoo keeping field and is thinking about transferring from Minnesota to this school. I would live with her.
It really depends on the zoo, how they do things, and how they divide sections up. The zoo I'm at, the Minnesota Zoo, has about 3000 individual animals. The zoo is divided up into The Northern Trail Minnesota/Tropics Mammals Birds Discovery Bay Dolphin Lagoon Farm Zoo mobile Each section has anywhere from 5 to 10 keepers, depending on the group. Northern trail is very big land wise, and also time consuming as it has the biggest exhibits (more poop) and the biggest animals (more diet prep/training), so they have the most keepers. More positions usually open up for the summer also. Zoomobile are just small animals and birds that travel to schools for assemblies and such, so they only have about 4 or 5 keepers. The Red River Zoo here in Fargo has about 300 animals, and has probably about 10 total keepers.
