Starting a new thread to document the delightful things I am finding out about joining the tech team at Monterey Bay Aquarium.
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DCom - Serial Hobbyist ☕️replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte I started following because I’m interested in hearing about your experience at the MB Aquarium. I was a Dive Master at the Ga Aquarium for 7 years and it was absolutely the best job I’ve had. Hard work but so rewarding.
We’d take people diving and snorkeling in the Ocean Voyager exhibit with whale sharks, huge Manta Rays and 1000s of other fish.
I hope you always look forward to going to work.
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Adrianna Tanreplied to DCom - Serial Hobbyist ☕️ last edited by
@DrewCommins thank you so much!! I hope to meet our dive team soon. Personally going to pickup my scuba training (dropped off after advanced PADI) and try to do some kelp conservation work outside of work. Astonishing marine life here. Just feel so lucky to experience all this. Thank you for sharing!
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@skinnylatte yesss. I am so happy for you with this. My terrible high school/ college retail job (everyone should have one) was in the gift shop at the Baltimore aquarium, and the thing that made it bearable was coming in early or staying late to say hello to some of the animals in a quiet nearly empty building. Especially octopus.
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24. Coworker: I hope it’s ok if we eat a brisk lunch. I’ve arranged for you to see the sea otter feeding behind the scenes.
UM, YES???
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@skinnylatte Im so glad I started following you just at the right moment, living the dream aquatic!
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@jollysea it really feels like it
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Well AktchuLLy, I believe the correct answer was "Why can't we dine *with* the sea otters?"
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@helplessduck I’ve seen how much they eat. I couldn’t possibly afford that amount of sashimi, nor eat as much as they do. Hahaha
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@skinnylatte Your posts about your work make me feel sad to go sit at my desk and sit through meetings... but they also let me live vicariously, so please continue!
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@m I have lots of meetings too.. sometimes there are animals around
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Adrianna Tan last edited by [email protected]
25. We are having a great taco truck come in for staff lunch. I still pick sea otters. Even though I really love tacos. I think I can eat 3 tacos in a few minutes
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26. I am in a meeting for ‘sea-nior’ leadership
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27. Someone on my team took me on a walking tour. There are many office buildings. I walked by the space for the seafood watch program and they had signs like ‘you’re jawsome!!’ And ‘thanks for all the kelp!’
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28. I went to meet some of the people who work on the science and they were like ‘sounds like you’re really aligned with our work!’ And that’s the nicest thing anyone can say to me (my boss sent out a welcome email in which he talked about how I’m really into birds and whales)
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29. There was an internal division competition called Punderdome.
The person who writes most of the puns on our social media won it
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30. While standing in line for the employee taco truck catering I met a guy who has a database of best tacos around here through to Santa Cruz. He has 90 spots right now. I’m going to befriend him
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31. Hallway convo.
‘Why are you so tired?’ ‘I’ve been carrying leopard sharks’
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@skinnylatte I feel like this should all be part of the recruiting pitch. I’m ready to move to California and volunteer to be part of the organization. It just sounds incredible.
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@skinnylatte Are you also responsible for public relations in this regard? Just curious given I keep hearing about your place on the DougDoug channel (and of course about your former best otter mom Rosa).
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@Natanox no I am not
I work solely on the technology there. the dougdoug partnership has been ongoing for a long time
