and like that, I am employed
So today while sitting at my desk and working on corrections for my thesis, I receive a phone call.
And you are now reading the scratchings of Florida's next CAPS agent. Mostly unexpected: I'd interviewed so long ago that I had long since given up hope. Given that one of the other officers attended my thesis and thought that I did a good job, I probably shouldn't be too surprised that they would call me back only a day after I finally finished.
I guess I get to survey for invasive critters and defend Florida agriculture. It is, after all this time, still a bug hunt instead of a stand-up fight. Of course, the position is still in Miami, and still in Florida, and still involved with agriculture. Still: it is a job. Right now, that is a hard thing to find, and I am glad to have it.
We'll see what time brings. I start on May first.