Comments | g_na: Sometimes work is play

g_na

Sometimes work is play

Apr 07, 2008 18:04

I seem to have acquired a new job! Keeping with my tradition of putting in many hours of unpaid labor at world-renowned research and conservation institutions, I will be a diver at the Steinhart Aquarium at the new California Academy of SciencesI will be diving in the large exhibit tanks, doing cleaning or feeding or whatever needs to be done in ( Read more... )

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jwz April 8 2008, 01:08:11 UTC

That is unfathomably cool.

g_na April 8 2008, 01:11:15 UTC

Isn't it? I can't wait to get started!

rivetpepsquad April 8 2008, 01:11:00 UTC

Oh, AWESOME!

g_na April 8 2008, 01:12:21 UTC

Beats the desk jobs I used to have!

rivetpepsquad April 8 2008, 01:15:31 UTC

In a *serious* way.

gnat23 April 8 2008, 01:14:57 UTC

HOLYSNOT that is beyond awesome! You are going to have millions of little kids pointing at you wanting to know how to grow up to get THAT JOB!

g_na April 8 2008, 04:20:57 UTC

That's exactly what I thought (as an adult) when I saw the divers in the Monterey Bay Aquarium tank!

ousel April 8 2008, 01:30:59 UTC

Holy crap that is awesome! Congrats.

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g_na April 8 2008, 04:02:08 UTC

Yeah, the water is just too rough for safe diving, and there'd be nothing but sand and rocks there anyway. The closest good diving is either in Sonoma County, or of course, down in Monterey.