A guy from Tallahassee who worked at a pet store as a kid became a shark diver at Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies, then bought a fish store in Raleigh, North Carolina. The aquarium job was fun but paid almost nothing.
Happy to share that. I'll give you the hopefully the two-minute version. I was born at a very young age in Tallahassee, Florida. I grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and I worked at a local pet store, and I really loved that that world that had that this business owner had created. And and I ended up getting a bio sci degree, and my first job after college was in a Uh, Ripley's Aquarium of the Smokies. I was a shark diver. I swam in a football-sized aquarium with, with live sharks, and that was, that was what I did, uh, for a living. So that was really fun. It didn't pay much. Okay. And eventually I found a pet store for sale in Raleigh, North Carolina. It was more of a fish store, and I bought it as an asset sale.
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