Is Sea World a good Career Choice?

Ok well took the family along to see the dolphins, seals, morays etc etc and of course you can't go to Sea World in San Diego without going to the Shamu Orca show.
Fantastic, yada yada yada would recommend it to anyone.

But hang on - they have staff who pretty much live with these Orca - saves them being eaten - and train them to do nice jumps and splash the crowd.

Yes all well and good, but is this a Good Career Choice? Think about it - say your Orca dies for whatever reason (bored shitless is a distinct possibility), and you are pretty much out of a job since you haven't bonded with any other spare Orca. So here you are, you've spent 10 years since High School training one Orca and now it's dead. What are your options here? Sure you could be one of those people who walk about during the show and sell all sorts of crap merchandise, but if you didn't want to do that? What if you felt like you needed to leave the Sea World Family altogether, because hey it just hurts too much what with your Orca dying and all.

So you pop along to the emplyoment office to check out the openings for Orca Trainers. I'm laying down $100 right now - there aren't going to be any. So you scan the lists of available jobs, and really, your options here are limited at best.

Let's run with a standard job for a while -say you went along to McDonalds and applied for a job - any job, as you are now broke as well as sad. You make it to the interview stage and front up all nice and tidy - and even though you really wanted to, you didn't even wear your black and white, slinky tight-fitting wetsuit.
Your name is called and in you go.
"Hello Miss Jones, I'm Mr Smith. Welcome to your interview."
"Thanks Mr Smith, I'm so happy to be here."
"Great. Let's get on with it then. On your application where it says 'customer service experience' you have written 'extensive'. Could you elaborate please?".
"Sure I can. As it says my previous occupation was an Orca Trainer. Everyday, twice a day in Summer, I would ride my Orca in front of the crowds and they would clap; it was wonderful. The audience and I had a great time."
"Yes ok I see. Let's try something else. Say you have a grumpy customer come in - how would you handle it?"
"I'd tell him that if he didn't start behaving, I would either not give him any fish at all or worse I'd take his toys off him. That'll teach him."
"Yes ok right. Miss Jones, do you have any other helpful experience?"
"Well I thought that being an Orca Trainer would set me up for life. Are you saying this is not the case?"
"You are correct. Actually, we don't get many Orca coming in off the street at all. Prettty much we just get humans."
"What - no Orca at all? Hmmm. I wonder if it's because you have Filet o Fish burgers? This could well be hindering your ability to get Orca in the door."
"No, I believe the real reason is that Orca can't walk or survive out of water."
"Oh, yes that could also be a good reason. What about dolphins? Do you get many dolphins in the restaurant"?
"No, as I say humans are our main clientele. Mind you with the state some of them leave the toilet in, it's possible some are inhuman. Miss Jones, thanks for coming in. We'll call you."
"Ok thanks. If you do get Orca starting to visit, you know who to call."
"Sure we will, you will be first on the list."

Well ok that may be a *little* extreme but you get my drift.

And hey can you imagine some chick, she's an Orca Trainer and her boyfriend breaks up with her.
"Oh Michael that's fine, I understand it's you and not me. Hey tell you what, just to show how I'm not worried about you breaking up with me, why don't you come along after hours and go for that swim with Killer, just like you always wanted to but weren't allowed. I'll make sure no one is around so it will be just you and me and Killer. What do you say?"

I rest my case.