So my oldest.... →[More:] If you click the link, it takes you back to the last installment about the saga of my son. He had been living in Albany, NY, but missed Texas and moved back in with us.

He looked for a job rather listlessly. The plan was to get a job, then pay for a pharmacy technician course to a get a job in that field. After persistently not working, he finally got the me and my wife to offer to pay for the pharmacy tech course.

He finished the course pretty quickly, took the state certification exam and passed a few months ago. The online school he took the course through said they would help him find and "externship" when he was done, but then a few months passed and nothing.... until today.

He got a call and they found him a placement at a pharmacy a couple miles from our house. He starts Thursday. The way the externship works is that it is four weeks long, unpaid.

The woman that called him about the placement said that usually the externship rolls into a full-time gig, and sometimes they offer the paid position after only a couple of weeks. It's a 24 hour pharmacy, and he will start out Mon-Fri from 3 pm to 11 pm. He's a night owl, so that's perfect for him. If he got his choice it would either be that or the overnight shift, so he's pretty happy about that.

Now.... I just hope he's able to get the job and hold it for a while. Color me... cautiously optimistic.