With jeanne’s help, I polished my resume and drafted a cover letter, and — this is kind of funny, really — because I don’t have a printer, I took it to Staples to get printed. I don’t know, I’d probably find it humorous to print off someone’s resume for a tech job if *I* worked at Staples! Damn, though, I’m never buying a printer, since it was 16 cents per copy, laser printed on 24 lb crisp white resume paper. Seriously, I made 3 copies of each — of the letter for my records, and in case I frigged up my signature and signed it "OH FUCK!" or whatever, and copies of my resume just to have on hand. It was 1.01. AND, the chick used a penny from the tray, so it cost me A BUCK. I signed it, stamped it, and it was out in today’s mail…. either way, whatever happens is supposed to happen, I firmly believe, so now I wait and see. Truly, though, this is the first job I’ve applied for that makes me feel like my graduate degree was a worthwhile endeavor.

And, hee, I liked the "sounds great, but the pay sucks!" comments, because, um, here? That’s really good. Seriously. I made 23k as a teacher, and I wasn’t in the lowest paying district, not by a long shot. The town I lived in before here, they pay new teachers 17k. SERIOUSLY.  And, uh, the starting for this job would basically double our household income. Actually, if I got Ingrid to the spendy daycare, that expense would make starting salary for this job about what the same as my first year teaching was, and we lived pretty well at that time — I put money into my retirement account, I did groceries and was fairly aggressive with saving, while Dave did household bills, and we still pretty much shopped for what we wanted, when we wanted it. (I mean, of course, for us that means replacement sea monkeys and jeans from Target, but it works for us…) Dude, we took a VACATION with that kind of income! (No vacation for a while, but it makes our roof/windows goal infinitely more attainable.)  And honestly, when I went back to school for my M Ed, my goal was to get a job starting at about 30, so this is inline with that. And, it’s DOWNTOWN. I was just telling Andy, on Wednesday, i think, how much I miss being downtown every day. (You know, back when I was in Americorps, doing help desk type stuff at THE LIBRARY.)

Oh, oh, oh, the geekiest part? You knew there was a geekiest part. If When I get interviewd, I plan to follow up with a thank you note, using the cards that I made from this picture.  God, seriously, how geeky is that?

Anyway. Whatever will be, will be. How many times have I said that? If anything, I’m feeling recharged, and reassured that grad school was not a colossal waste of time and money, and that’s a good thing.