I took a class on how to respond to job interview questions once and they used this exact one as an example. The answer they're looking for is "Open a business where you hire the elephant out for events like birthday parties."
If I owned a restaurant and heard that someone worked 85 hours a week for 3 months to keep a Wendy's running I would get in touch and offer them a job immediately.
Many fish survive in water with low dissolved oxygen by coming to the surface and gulping air. It looks like it was able to break through the ice to do it. I don't know what species this is specifically but it looks like some sort of carp which is one of the groups that do this.