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Ideal for: brave animal lovers.
Job Specifications: You have to clean out the cages,
hose down the animals, feed the animals, and remove the uneaten food before
the maggots decide to take residence. The birds aren’t that bad—it’s the
large animals that can be a bummer to take care of. Imagine how big elephant
turds can be, or how fun it is to scrub a rhinocerous’ butt. And since the
lions and other predators prefer their meat raw, you also have to scrub off
the blood from their cages. Let’s not even talk about the pools of urine you
have to step over, and how—when mating season starts—you have to help the
zoo keeper with the zoo’s er, breeding efforts (see veterinarian).
Drawbacks: Let’s see. You clean up crap, sweep up puddles of urine, and
wash down the cages of predators who like to mark their territory by leaving
trails of excretions everywhere they go. And you do this all…for free?
Couldn’t you have just gotten a summer job at a pizza joint?
Perks: Make friends with the hotdog vendor, and you get a free lunch.
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