Jobs

Like I mentioned before, school is our number one priority right now, but people always ask us what we do for cash.

Between the two of us, we have four jobs at the moment. I work at the campus bookstore in customer service and athletic book scholarships. It's not the best job I've ever had but it's easy and they are really flexible with my schedule allowing me to have time to work on my thesis. Nathan is working for the Texas Agrilife Extension service compiling a database on private hunting operations in Texas.

We're both working on a project for the University and the Lower Colorado River Authority. We go to Austin almost every weekend and conduct interviews with recreational boaters on the Highland Lakes. This means we spend 8 hours in the hot sun for two or three days in a row. This can be draining but it's good experience for us and it pays pretty well. It's also fun to get to go to Austin since that is our favorite city in Texas.

Since we don't plan on doing this forever, we have both begun to look for jobs. We hope to be finished with all of our business in College Station in September so we want to have jobs by then. It's a little overwhelming at times because there seems like so much to do between finishing our master's degrees, finding jobs for both of us, finding a place to live, and moving. We're optimistic that we'll get it all together, and just figure things out as we go.

-jennifer