The adventure of jobs...

I haven't had a, shall we say, straightforward career path. I entered college wanting to double-major in engineering and German (hoping to build robots for handicapped people and, uh, speak German, I guess), and ended up with a German degree. I wasn't planning on going to graduate school, but to grad school I went due to an incredible last-minute opportunity and I got a Master's in German lit. I flirted with the idea of getting a Ph.D. and moving into academia (following the footsteps of my dad), but instead moved up to Boston to get a low-paying job and be a pastor of international students. From there I moved back into academia, but as support staff (i.e., secretary) in the president's office of a local college.

From there, I got the invitation to go to Warsaw to be a pastor to Polish students through an international Christian student ministry. Then I moved back to Boston to become...support staff for the Boston branch of a national business.

Which means I shouldn't be too darn surprised that my sister emailed me yesterday to say that she spent the day at an FBI open house and found out they're looking for translators, and thought I might be interested. Since her email, I've gotten other emails from family members encouraging me to check it out.

Ah, life is fun!