Using up my karma points
I am on fire right now! And I feel like I should be watching my back because at this rate, some sort of misfortune must be right around the corner...
I appeared in Vancouver last Wednesday, without a place to live. I started looking at places on Craigslist Thursday morning. I had a place to live by 3pm the same day. Fantastic location - 24th and Cambie, $450/month all inclusive.
So I got all my classes sorted out and today I started looking for a job. UBC has a great program called Work Study - jobs on campus, subsidized by the university (so the pay decently), and a nice database for us all to search through. Something U of A didn't have, I feel like you just had to know people to get those kinds of jobs.
So today I started applying.
And already, my soul-destroying 8 month streak of epic failures in employment has come to an end.
8 minutes after I submitted my application, I received an email from the head of the Botany department, thanking me for my "articulate and enthusiastic application". I went to meet him and see the lab this afternoon, and within five minutes he said "As far as I'm concerned you have the job".
I could hardly believe it! Now. I am going to have to brush up on my knowledge of molecular genetics. I tried to not let on how much of it went over my head! They are studying the genes involved in the development of stomata in Arabidopsis. Okay, that much I understand. Arabidopsis is the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced. Pretty much everything else I struggled to follow. ^_^;; I'm an ecologist, dammit, not a genetecist! But it's a REASEARCH position. With plants. And that means it is related to my degree and my future.
So I can stop hating myself now.
What a relief! :D
I appeared in Vancouver last Wednesday, without a place to live. I started looking at places on Craigslist Thursday morning. I had a place to live by 3pm the same day. Fantastic location - 24th and Cambie, $450/month all inclusive.
So I got all my classes sorted out and today I started looking for a job. UBC has a great program called Work Study - jobs on campus, subsidized by the university (so the pay decently), and a nice database for us all to search through. Something U of A didn't have, I feel like you just had to know people to get those kinds of jobs.
So today I started applying.
And already, my soul-destroying 8 month streak of epic failures in employment has come to an end.
8 minutes after I submitted my application, I received an email from the head of the Botany department, thanking me for my "articulate and enthusiastic application". I went to meet him and see the lab this afternoon, and within five minutes he said "As far as I'm concerned you have the job".
I could hardly believe it! Now. I am going to have to brush up on my knowledge of molecular genetics. I tried to not let on how much of it went over my head! They are studying the genes involved in the development of stomata in Arabidopsis. Okay, that much I understand. Arabidopsis is the first plant to have its entire genome sequenced. Pretty much everything else I struggled to follow. ^_^;; I'm an ecologist, dammit, not a genetecist! But it's a REASEARCH position. With plants. And that means it is related to my degree and my future.
So I can stop hating myself now.
What a relief! :D