http://people.com/human-interest/david-joyner-man-behind-barney-dinosaur-10-years/
So they interviewed the guy who played Barney in the suit for 10 years. Incidentally, he was an IT guy before that, meaning IT -> Barney might be a viable career transition.
“The night before the audition, I had this dream. And in this dream, Barney passes out. And I have to give Barney mouth-to-mouth resuscitation,” he explained. “So on the way to the audition, I’m sitting at a stoplight, and something says ‘Look up.’ So I look up, and there’s this billboard. It says ‘Breathe life into your vacation — Southwest Airlines.’ And then it hits me: I had to breathe life into Barney in my dream. If I go into this audition and breathe life into this character, I’m going on vacation. And that’s exactly what I did.”
“Barney was beautiful,” he said. “Barney was very, very good to me. I loved being Barney. I loved everything about being Barney. But that chapter is gone.”
After 10 years of staring into the purple abyss, the abyss stares back into you…