# info on seaworld

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [April 12, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461 "2013-04-12T00:50:39Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![chumbie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/aeb1de/32.png) [@chumbie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chumbie)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/1 "2013-04-12T00:50:39Z")

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hey has anybody got any imfo. about working at seaworld good or bad??

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**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 12:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/2 "2013-04-12T00:52:38Z")

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Did you post this thread in the wrong forum on porpoise?

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**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/3 "2013-04-12T01:08:34Z")

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He posted here just for the halibut.

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**Author:** ![Maserschmidt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/maserschmidt/32/18829_2.png) [@Maserschmidt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maserschmidt)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/4 "2013-04-12T01:13:57Z")

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This is the wrong plaice for that post.

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**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/5 "2013-04-12T01:18:00Z")

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Moving to In My Humble Opinion.

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**Author:** ![Trinopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/2bfe46/32.png) [@Trinopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trinopus)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/6 "2013-04-12T03:58:23Z")

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A friend of mine worked in one of the park restaurants at Sea World (San Diego) for some years. It was a “McJob.” Hard work, poor pay, shoveling fries at strangers all day long. Shrug. Beats sleeping on the parents’ couch…

(Fairly long walk from employee parking lot to actual work-site.)

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**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2013, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/info-on-seaworld/655461/7 "2013-04-12T07:11:10Z")

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Working conditions at Sea World? Do you mean for the naked apes that work there, or the dolphins that work there?

Might be a fun job for an elite few. Like the dolphin trainers maybe. I knew the head trainer and the curator at a different dolphin show place. I think that must have been a fun job. But even for them, it’s still damn hard and demanding work. But challenging and fun.

Read _Lads Before The Wind_ by Karen Pryor. Tells about adventures in training dolphins, otters, and penguins, and of running and managing a sea park. (But doesn’t say anything much about the low-level wage slaves working the ticket booths or concessions.)