I finally have a job!

As some of you already know I just started my new job. I was offered a job while I was in the Toronto airport on my way to Miami. I accepted and I started the week after I got back from vacation.

I'm working as a research assistant for the Dept of Family Medicine at the UofC. I'm doing qualitative research on the problems in family and community medicine, doing focus groups with family physicians and GPs from around the city (later in the summer), and finding and implementing solutions to those problems. So far it's been really interesting and I like my team at work. Everyone is pretty nice and very helpful.

I'm still a deer-in-the-headlights right now and learning all about focus groups and qualitative research in the health sciences field. It's just a part-time 8-month contract job but it should give me some useful skills for my next job (who knows what that will be?). Working for health sciences has some definite perks, the pay is good, I get health benefits, and the atmosphere is pretty relaxed. So far, so good.