I got my dream job!

[Jay Chow]

Fuck yeah man, I love hearing about stuff like this!

[Jason Hyatt]

Thank you all again so much for the positivity. Had a GREAT roll at the gym this morning, organic egg whites and super smoothie after I got home, SSS, and the chiropractor this afternoon. EVERYTHING'S COMING UP MILHOUSE!

[ohio2berlin]

Sweet, wonderful to hear!!!

[WilliamGunter]

awesome dude!

[Slick Rick]

So things have been a struggle for quite a while now. When we first moved back to Minnesota over the summer, the state government was fighting over the budget. That led to a government shutdown. Well, as a respiratory therapist I need a license to work. No state, no license; no license, no job. So the job that I thought I had lined up when we moved fell through. After a few months of struggling more than planned, I finally landed a full-time hospital gig. Not the best job ever, but certainly comfortable.

Well a couple days before Thanksgiving I was working a night shift. I had a terrible Crohn's attack and ended up down in the ER for the rest of the shift as a patient. I got drugged up and sent home. A few days later my boss fired me for leaving my shift early. Because I was still in my probationary period there was really nothing I could do about it.

I've been unemployed and broke as fuck since then. I got a part time job for a few hours a week just to try and stay above water but we've been sinking slowly but surely each week. Another month and I don't know how we could pay rent. It was getting that close.

You all know I'm a huge geek. Big time science nerd. Well I interviewed for the ultimate geek job as an RT a little more than a week ago. They had originally posted the job incorrectly so when I went in for the interview I didn't have big expectations. I was dead wrong. It's the Taj Mahal of cardiopulmonary departments. They do very serious work here. They do work with civil and criminal legal implications. They are one of the few labs in the country pulmonologists go to for pulmonary function studies when they enroll their patients in research programs. This is playing for real at the high end of academic medicine at one of the premier heart hospitals in the country -- and they hired ME!!!

It's everything a dork like me could ask for. Monday through Friday, no weekends or holidays, in a GORGEOUS lab, in an amazing hospital, doing really incredible work, for way more money than I have ever made in my life. It still doesn't seem real.

Nobody gets through this life alone. I know this opportunity is precious and so many of you have been supportive of me through the struggles. Thank you so much for being such good friends and family. I don't know what I did in this life at least a few others to buy this opportunity, but thank you all for being a part of it. Really. My 10th Planet brethren are important to me and I want you to know how thankful I am to have you all. We share in the victories and the defeats -- on the mats and in life. Thanks again.

Damn Jason. Congrats bro. I can relate fully to your situation. I was let go back in '09. Trying to find work in my field during that time was tough. All I could do to keep my mind and body right was play chess, and do jiu jitsu. When the job finally came around, it made it all worth it. There was time for introspection and reflection. But I pulled through, and my grappling buds from 10p and other schools helped me mentally and monetarily at times. Glad you're back in the work force bringing and doing what you love!

[Matthias Sieber]

congrats on your dream job!

[David Rosado]

That's friggin awesome bro! Congrats!

[Brandon Woolsey]

Congratz brotha, thats so awesome!!

[Clinton lawrence]

This has made my week congrats brother

[Jack LaBarge]

Dreams do come true. Congrats!