She worked for the government on fishing boats and then out in the desert where they wanted to put in windmills. Got sick of government and work for the construction company making sure they were up to regulations. Then they got a new job that would have required her to drive hours every day if she didn’t stay there, so she went out on a fishing boat again and got caught up in a bad storm when she was 7 months pregnant. So she decided to do something that she could be home with kids and started teaching science about 5 years ago.
She worked at a place that trains animals for movies for awhile, “We Bought a Zoo” was all their animals, and I forget other movies. But that was when she first moved to SoCal from Oregon and it didn’t pay as much as she needed.
That animal job sounds like a lot of fun. I wonder why it doesn’t pay much, not just anybody could do it.