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
rhinoceros’ 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 work on 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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