Vicissitudes and Victories

Oadat, the Consultant

Today I began working in a summer job that quite possibly is the greatest summer job ever. Sometimes I wonder how I fall into such sweet opportunities. The teacher for whom I was a teaching assistant in the last two years is the advising historian for a project that connects college professors and public school teachers in an effort to improve the teaching of history. The government has appropriated a really substantial amount of money to improve history teaching and I find myself in the shady world of grant implementation. Technically, I will be working for a consulting company and helping them to assess the success of the project. I am the low man on the totem pole, and I am making more money than I ever have per hour in my entire life. I think that I will make more money over the month that I am involved in this project than I would have made the entire summer working a retail job.

I always thought that historians were supposed to work for the love of learning, but we're turning out to be a pretty mercenary crowd. I guess I'll just jump on the bandwagon and try not to sell my soul or my integrity.

posted by Joel @ 10:33 PM