I seem to remember that sometime, several months ago, I had mentioned that looking around for internships in various fields that might interest you might be a really great opportunity. Actually, I think that I focused a lot of what I was talking about on young Christian students looking for internships and other summertime employment to keep themselves busy and earn a little bit of spending money. Although I still wholeheartedly advocate students looking around for such opportunities, whether they are between grades in high school or they're living up their last summer at home before heading off to college or university, I had more or less placed the thoughts of summer work far from my mind. Today, I learned that the program that I had hoped to be attending over the summer at my university was no longer going to be offered, and therefore that I would have to find some summer work somewhere. It's really no big deal to find somewhere to work for the summer months, but I immediately thought ahead about the possibilities of being able to work somewhere that would actually benefit my future, rather than just getting a job at the mall or at a restaurant just to make ends meet.

God must have been listening in on my thoughts, because the very same day a good friend of mine mentioned some well-paid summer internship jobs that are available in our field. She told me about how she had worked with the particular group that is offering the internships and that they are a great opportunity to get a lot of work done, get paid, and make some great connections in the field. Since I just found out about this today, I haven't really gone ahead and done any digging and research on my own to find out more about the possibilities for these summer internships, but the idea alone is very promising to me. It's going to be a very strange summer for me anyways. I can hardly remember the last time I had a summer where I wasn't working on something academic related or going to class. I think that it was after my first two semesters of college that I actually went home for a summer. I ended up working at Old Navy, where I had during the time I was in high school, just to keep myself occupied. After that, the next several summers were spent taking classes, in order to get out of college with my two degrees in a decent amount of time. After I graduated, as you all know, I worked for two years in biology laboratories before heading back to graduate schol...and here I am. I would really like to do something worthwhile to occupy my time and also to put something decent on my curriculum vitae. I've heard of some other opportunities available through various professors in my department for summer research, but I imagine that they are pretty competitive positions to get. I don't think that I'm quite up for teaching a class of my own, and that takes up the majority of the student positions that the university offers here. I'm hoping to keep things going and work more in the lab that I am currently employed in over the summer. It's an amazing lab with an amazing professor.

But anyways, if you know of any summer internships or employment, particularly the kind that involve Christian types of things...please feel free to post them as comments on my Christian finance blog. It will really help to be able to spread the word to others, since I've learned that over one hundred people each day ready this blog. Hooray for that! Posting such things on here is also a great way to network with one another and the rest of the Christian community!