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Career Day tomorrow at my sons school..any suggestions?

Discussion in 'The Taxidermy Industry' started by jennifer, May 5, 2011.

  1. May 5, 2011 #1
    jennifer

    jennifer New Member

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    I participate in Career Day at my sons school every year. He is in 6th grade now and I want to do something new. I usually take in a few birds, a few fish, several whitetail and a lifesize mount, skulls, snake skins and a few soft tans. I only have 30 minutes for each classroom.
    These are the points I'm supposed to cover:
    •Describe your profession. (what you do)
    •Education / Training Needed
    •Salary Range and Benefits............................. ???
    •Interesting Information about your job.
    •Question & Answer Time

    I was just gonna see if anyone had any interesting facts about taxidermy or its history.
     
  3. May 5, 2011 #2
    Bill Yox

    Bill Yox Well-Known Member

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    Jax is in 6th grade already? Wow, lol. Hey just go with the usual stuff and you being a girl in a typically male oriented field, youll do just fine!!!
     

  5. May 6, 2011 #3
    jennifer

    jennifer New Member

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    YES BILL...A MIDDLE SCHOOLER....I'M GETTING OLD!!! Its a short demonstration and I usually have a lot of questions after so there isnt any dead time. I was going to bring a form and sculpt eyes for each class. I dont think ANYONE gets the time and work that goes into mounting a deer. People just think you screw the horns on and sew the skin up. I have had a man describe taxidermy to his son in front of me. He said "They just squirt some expanding foam, like tuff stuff, in the back of them and put them on a board"
    I'm gonna have a laptop with some pictures on it too.
     
  6. May 6, 2011 #4
    Kyle Lakey

    Kyle Lakey Active Member

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    Yeah visuals of how you mount something would be great for them to see. If you have a series of pictures of mounting something from start to finish they would eat it up. I just did a live mounting of a deer shoulder mount for the elementary kids last friday during their environmental day. They would stop by throughout the moring and see how I was coming along on it and ask questions. The were floored by how I started with a foam thing and skin and ended up with a live looking deer. It was alot of fun.
     
  7. May 9, 2011 #5
    jennifer

    jennifer New Member

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    Turned out good. All the kids told my son that his moms career was the coolest...hmmmmmm. It was fun though.
     
  8. May 9, 2011 #6
    Ted B

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    I thought you would show up in a hooters tshirt and orange booty shorts lol