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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49. She then said when she went to hang out with the octopus she got octopus hickies all over her arms and they didn’t go away for a long time.
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@skinnylatte It’s so much fun reading your posts about how much fun you are having in your new job!
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@econoprof thank you! It’s giving me life and joy
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50. Today I got stopped in the hallways. Someone I didn’t really know said, ‘hey are you the one who posted the pic of the Townsend’s warbler? I saw the same bird but didn’t have my camera so thanks for taking the cool pic’ (when I worked at a database company, all they talked about was emacs vs vim)
We then agreed to go on a lunch bird walk
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Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni)replied to Adrianna Tan last edited by
@skinnylatte Ok, this sounds like a dream job. I am so happy for you!! (Also, do I get to call you a friend, or are you just "someone I know on the internet"?)
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Adrianna Tanreplied to Granny Art (Shrimp) (Joni) last edited by
@artcollisions friend! Also happy to do a online video or audio chat if you’re ever up for that!
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51. Apparently they will pay for us to get Spanish lessons, so my taco dreams are going to be bumped up to the next level. Did I also mention I met a guy who has a database of 90 taco truck rankings in Monterey, Salinas, Watsonville, all the way up to Santa Cruz
I’m emailing him to have lunch (at a taco truck)
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52. People were asking me if I got a bluetiful sweatshirt and I thought they were all mispronouncing beautiful, but there really is an employee sweatshirt called BLUEtiful. It’s blue.
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@skinnylatte You have the best job in the world.
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@noondlyt it really feels like it!
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53. My manager showed me a special spot in a building facing the ocean that he called the ‘binoculars corner’. There are comfy chairs and binoculars you can use.
I zipped down my jacket and showed that I already had a pair of binoculars. He said ‘oh yours are better’
Then I told him about how I went to someone’s office just before that and she had a SCOPE SET UP FOR WHALES (that anyone visiting her could use)
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@skinnylatte Ooh, what kind do you have? I need to buy some.
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@skry Nikon prostaff P3
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@skinnylatte this one made me feel so many feelings. I like tech and have fun with it and all but omg I crave being around people with more interesting interests so bad.
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@zkat I feel like I need a balance that I found increasingly harder to find in more conventional tech. Just avoiding assholes felt like a job
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@skinnylatte all your coworkers sound like such joyful, delightful people living their best fishy lives
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@zkat I want a life like that but I can cruise for a long time from the warm fuzzies that someone out there does have that life.
Happier for you every day @skinnylatte may you never have to worry about an unsolicited tech discussion
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@randomgeek @zkat I’m fine with tech discussions but I demand that there be a good answer to why we are having these discussions. Mostly I want computers with people not just computers. I’m sad it took me 15 years of working to realize this but there’s no going away from that now
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@skinnylatte thank you for this piece of joy
