A Job for Jacob?

This is even more exciting than the car and as you can tell from all the exclamation marks in the previous post, that's pretty exciting. We're trying not to get our hopes up, however, because it is not yet a done deal and so I will try to limit the exclamation marks.

Jacob has applied for tons of jobs online, sending his resume all sorts of places. Well a few days ago, a company contacted him and said that if he was still interested, they want him for the position of "Evaluation IQC--Nutrition Analyst; Heath and HIV/AIDS Analyst; Evaluation Training Specialist--Junior Level" (say that in one breath) and would he please reformat his CV so they could include him in their proposal to the US Agency for International Development. So, finally, after years of training and internships and independently funded travel and study, a company has finally offered Jacob a paid position for his expertise, doing what he loves, pending the acceptance of the 3-year, multimillion dollar contract proposed to USAID which they say they have a pretty good shot at getting.

It's been really hard for me to forbear putting in a bunch of exclamation marks. If this job works out, Jacob will be given assignments overseas to help monitor and evaluate USAID projects. He could be sent anywhere! (Oops, couldn't contain that one.) And he could be sent for days, weeks, months, or years at a time. Depending on the duration and location of the assignment(s), I can choose to go with him or stay in the States and continue working. If we are so blessed as to be able to adopt a child by then, that will, of course, factor into our travel decisions as well. He also has the good fortune to be able to refuse assignments and wait for other ones if he feels the assignment is too risky or comes at a bad time, etc.

Hey, even if USAID doesn't accept the proposal, it's still a huge confidence booster for Jacob to know that he was wanted by such a company for such a position, and that he will likely be included on more of their proposals in the future. Yay!!! (okay, I'm a total failure when it comes to containing excitement) But seriously! Yay!!!