I came home last night and saw an email from the lady I met with about the job. Today I filled out paperwork finalizing my acceptance and now I have a job! I'm getting in at only $8/hour, but they're letting me stay at ten hours a week. Previously, since they were hiring me hourly instead of work-study, they were going to cut the hours down and probably pay less. It may be possible to get a pay raise (since lab techs usually get ten an hour on campus) next semester, but I'm not holding out on it.
So the job is with the short grass step LTER network, and I basically am sorting bagged samples collected this last summer. Rather than just grasses and forbs, I have to identify what the specimens are and sort them by warm season, cool season, etc. I start early Monday morning and they're already getting a key for me so I can work alone at some point after training. How fast!
I don't like having to be in class only all the time, and wish I could just go out and get a job already, so this is a good median.
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