Wednesday morning I placed an ad for tobacco help on a popular website for posting ads. I have recieved about a dozen calls from people looking for help. Most calls I received were of the variety for general labor. Being able to cut tobacco is a pretty specific skill that we have not been cultivating on our farm for the last dozen years. It is no surprise to me that there are very few decent tobacco cutters out there, we ran out that skill as an industry when we started looking away from home. In the morning will be the litmus test of my ad. Plenty of people called saying they could help hang and load, so I told them friday morning and where to be. Hopefully plenty of people show up and we can get done in a short amount of time. We are unable to start cutting dads patch for at least 10 days from now. If we finish in a shorter amount of time, that equates to more R&R for me.
Doing so kind of reminded me of last weeks sermon at church. Father Mike sermoned as to how God was generally testing us to see what kind of person we are. When the time for the afterlife comes, we are going to be evaluated on how we treated others. Hopefully I do enough good and treat people well enough from this posting and do the right thing for those who ask.
I am also doing one of the final tasks for my graduate program tomorrow. I have an oral defense of my capstone project. The interview is supposed to last a hour. I am graded on pass/fail conditions. I am not sure what is going to happen if I fail, and I am even more unsure of how much money I have to put into tuition if I don't pass and finish everything. I don't have a teaching job waiting on me, and the greenhouse and agriculture industry is right at my fingertips when I quit lazing around with my graduate work.
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