Friday, February 16, 2007

Playing at Work


I've come a long way (in the right direction) since leaving my job as a Disability Benefits Specialist. All my thanks is to God. Today I "job shadowed" with the Marine Mammal department and got to hang out with them for the first half of the day and help them with everything they do and learn all about their jobs. This means I got to be out for the feedings of the seals and sea lions and even got to feed and do some tricks with the Center's biggest attraction, a Stellar Sea Lion named Woody. Other duties I did included leading the animals into cages and around medical equipment (a process done frequently even when no tests are going to be done to try to teach the animals that such things are not always to be dreaded) and thawing and sorting dead fish for meals. The latter might not sound too appealling, but to someone who was suffocating in disability claim forms for over 2 years, it was breath of fresh, wonderful, fish-smelly air.

9 comments:

Scott and Beth said...

Those pants make you look fat!

daniel said...

note to jonathan: sticking fingers in sharp-toothed animals 2-feet taller and 487.32 pounds heavier than yourself = dangerous

Scott and Beth said...

...fat as in "chubby" not "awesome"...just wanted to clear that up.

Jonathan said...

That animal is more like 5,100 pounds heavier than me.

stoogle said...

I saw somone at Provident as big as that seal. So why is this new job soooo much better?

Scott and Beth said...

Dude...we are not Provident anymore...we are now just UNUM.

daniel said...

good question, beck. so what's your answer, little mr. smarty fat pants?

daniel said...

oh, and jonathan, about that thing weighing 5,100 pounds more than you. NOTHING weighs that much.

trust me. i did my research.

well...almost nothing. the only thing that has ever been found to weigh that much is an alaskan cow.

Scott and Beth said...

Are you ever going to update?