omg omg omg omg omg somebody pinch me
I've wanted to get my PhD for a long time now, and I am seriously getting burned out on my current job.
While chatting with one of my favorite customers at a larger university with a nice chemistry department, this subject came up. She said "hang on, let me call somebody." That somebody ended up being the head organic synthesis researcher/professor. He told me I had a slot in his lab for the asking and that I needed to apply "yesterday, if not sooner" because he wants somebody with experience like mine in his research group.
And to make it even better, the professor in charge of all the instrumentation for the department promised me an assistantship from the chemistry department involving me basically doing my current job for the school a couple days a week. So no tuition bill, and they'd pay me something to help with living expenses.
And on top of that they'll let me start in the winter of 2018 so I can get SRS done while I still have killer benefits with my current employer.
I'm still in shock.
But now I need to go pester my old professors for letters of recommendation. "Hey Dr. B, could I get another letter of rec? Oh right, the name... So uhh there have been a couple of changes."
