A few weeks ago I received an email from the university in Minnesota regarding open positions as a professor’s assistant. In exchange for working 10 hours a week my student fees would be waived and they would pay me an additional $5,000.00 per year. Seeing no reason why I should not at least try I applied. The process was fairly simple, my curriculum vitae and a two-page application to fill out. This afternoon I received an email from the director of the history programme informing that they have approved my application and the position, should I want it, will be made open to me. After receiving a fast notice of acceptance, a quick and early response which a seemingly favourable outcome for a nice flat, excellent help in planning my degree, and now a job offer that will make my financial future certainly more secure I can’t help but thinking that I made the best possible choice in accepting the offer to read history in St Cloud.
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Good on ya’, Christopher! 😀
I would think that spring days couldn’t come any better than this. Well done!
Well Done!
I have responded to the director and asked him to start the paperwork as well as to let me know
precisely what the job will be in order to allow me to prepare for it over the summer. There is a fair chance that I will be a student lecturer.
It sounds as though things are working out rather well, Christopher. 🙂
Excellent news!
Good luck to you, Christopher. I hope it all goes very well for you in your new job and study.
Good, the boy did this at Brum during his PhD, he supervised practical experiments of undergrads in the engineering labs.
Tickled me pink by moaning and groaning at their ineptitude and general idiocy, low IQ, general inability to write, draw and think etc etc. He was not even 10 years older than they but might as well have been their grandfathers! There now, you will have a vast new fertile seam to mine when you no longer have SF to bitch about! (Well you must keep your hand in!)
Well done, good luck with it all.
Congratulations, christopher. Hope you enjoy the work.
Christina: I suspect that I will, as usual, surround myself with East Asians. Quieter, prouder, and less stupid than most. By and large, of course. Naturally I will continue to write about my life, should anything interesting happen. I’m not too cynical by nature, I just have very limited tolerance for idiots, especially when they come in herds. At least in St Cloud the crowds are much smaller and, should I find the people insufferable, I can simply walk in the woods to avoid human contact and hope that OZ can put in a kind word for me with his lupine cousins.
Christopher, there’s crack thereabouts featuring ‘keeping your head in St Cloud’s’.
Janus: 😀