That's right folks! Ronny graduated!!! He's Dr. Remington and therefore I am Mrs. Dr. Remington. I worked just as hard, so you can certainly refer to me by a name that seemingly does not have anything to do with me. I'm sure some of you (okay one of you) was wondering if the transition I spoke of involved babies...no just a diploma and new title. Ronny is working at UF as a postdoctoral researcher. It sounds fancy, but it's the same thing he was doing except now he's getting paid a real salary for his work. Meanwhile, I got a job at UF through a temp agency (got to love this economy and being over qualified--thank you masters degree). I work for three professors in the Family, Youth, and Community Sciences department (Tebow's major). It's not rocket science or the job of my dreams, but it is a paycheck and now I can start paying back my student loans! Oh, it's so glamorous!
So what's next? That's the real transition. We want to get out of Gainesville. Ronny has decided that he wants to transition into finance. Yes, he's a physicist, but what he really does is computer software development. In the finance field there is something called a quant. They do the math behind the stock market (no they didn't necessarily cause the crash). That's what he's looking at. So he's applied at Twitter and D.E. Shaw. We'll see what happens. It looks like my opportunities are in the northeast and Washington D.C. area. I'm just looking forward to the next step.
Meanwhile, we are seriously thinking about starting a family. The last two years have been a challenge for me. I've sacrificed a lot to further Ronny's career and I'm glad I did it. But now I'm want to start my life. I feel like we've had to put things on hold and I'm not doing that anymore. There is not perfect time and if you wait for it you will let life pass you by. I have babies on the brain and I'm fine with that. I wanted to start trying to have kids when I was 28, and two weeks ago I reached that landmark age. I'm not exactly where I thought I'd be professionally, but that's life right now. It's time to start trying...well maybe we'll start in a couple of months.
