Hunt is On

It's all circular, as Kevin Nealon from the movie Happy Gilmore says. Well never truer. I left in 2001 and now I am back in Winnipeg, but with my family. What do i need to do? Get a job. Today I went for a first interview at the Canadian Grain Commission, otherwise known as Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada. Yeah it sounds like there is an extra Agri in there, heh. So this is not new territory for me. I worked there in 2000 and was always involved in a small way thruout my BSc and MSc at the U of Manitoba. In fact, in my tour I recognised a number of people still working there. That is nothing strange being government work, but it was strangely reassuring, satisfying and comfortable. A colleague of mine from the Grad program at U of M met me (she is now heading a dept) and it was great to see her again. We talked and she gave me a tour of the place and I was introduced to some people. Although most people were not bouncing off the walls excited working there, I ralised that I would be more than happy getting involved in testing and analysis again and joining the ranks of the scientific minded. Hell, I would welcome a chance to be creative and innovative on projects. In short, I was soon more than willing to be hired on there. Unfortunately, there are competitions for all positions and you have to go thru the government website, and get all that in order at jobs.gc.ca/ (Which I have). She even went so far as to say that there would probably be people fighting over having me in their dept. Which I thought was not going to be what she said after checking out my resume. In fact i thought she would have said something like "wow not doing research or analysis for the past 7 years... well that's not going to help you here." Well that is apparently not the case, and the fact that I stuck with Foods was enough. All I need is to wait for the competitions. So I cross my fingers. But knowing that crossing ones fingers, trusting to God and blind luck only get you so far, I have also booked a meeting with a former professor representing a different entity in the same building for Thursday, and that wonderful person also is part of the gruop that does Pilot scale brewing at the building (I hope/ think). Will wonders never cease. I was told this was a good time, because people were retiring- in fact one retired just today- and I am certain they are correct. Like Tamara says, things work out for us, we always have correct timing, so why should this be different? I hope I can be patient enough is all. Well, talk soon. I think that I may have something else to say about the Winnipeg housing market, or a repeat of a previous post.