New Job and other related news
Cool. I got a new job which I start in about a week.

It is very much what I wanted because I'll be doing empirical research work and I will be learning and doing a lot of the aspects of running a project in less than a year. (This is one major plus of working for a smaller firm). Thus the relatively smaller salary is compensated for and it preps me for bigger and better things involving more complicated statistical and theoretical research with the company or on my own if decided to go on with my PH'd.

I also started as an unpaid Director of the local Economics association a few days ago.

Thus, things are starting to look up in the realm of my professional development!!

Chris