Someone, I’m not naming names (my mum), was complaining the other day that I don’t update my personal blog enough. I responded by saying that nothing interesting happens to me often enough for my personal blog to be updated frequently. The response was to, predictably, point out my interesting job which I admit, is very interesting.
I always worry about blogging job related stuff for fear that the people I work with will find out about it and take offense. Since having this conversation with the totally unnamed individual (my mum), two things have occurred to me.
One is that the people I work with are pretty amiable and unlikely to take offense at anything (within surprisingly broad parameters too). The second is that the most interesting things that happen at my work have nothing to do with the people. Seeing as I work at an aquarium, they mostly involve animals.
This occurred to me when I thought about the animals I’ve had in my office (yes, in my actually office, sometimes even under my desk). These include:
• A penguin
• Another kind of penguin
• A seagull
• A snake
• A puppy
• The still beating heart of a dead carp (true story)
• A newly shed snake skin
• A leopard toad
• Children
And I’ve only been there 5 months.
-Aki
Max Barners (@maxbarners)
December 29, 2011 at 12:45 pm
You have a most excellent job.
And I thought I had an impressive Zoo at work!