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ShawD left her first job (which was 1 3/4 hrs from Boston) after a year and has taken a new job in the Boston area. The job market in Boston is much more competitive for nurse practitioners, so the job itself is not as good, but her compensation package is up about 20%. She moved to try out living in close quarters with her BF as they hope, in 1.5 years, to volunteer for six months in someplace like Laos or Rwanda. She would work as an NP and help provide care or supervise. He is a start programmer at a tech company. Not clear what he'd do there. After the volunteer stint, they would move to the Bay Area as he thinks this will be better for him. She's game as her brother is there (an a bunch of friends who work at places like Facebook and Google), and we're there a few months a year as well.
@shawbridge - best of luck to your D in her new job. I'm sure there will be some kind of tech/IT work that D's BF will be able to perform as a volunteer when they go overseas.
Popping in to say that D announced her engagement last week! She will be marrying a young man she met at Tulane and has dated for the past 5-6 years. She is finishing up her 2nd year of medical school and started her rotations in January. He plans to start an MPH program this fall at the same school, so they will graduate at the same time in the spring of 2020. She will apply for residency programs in the fall of 2019 for the summer of 2020, specializing in pediatrics though probably adding additional specialties to that, possibly pediatric pulmonology
Congratulations @bajamm and @shawbridge ! Nice to hear updates about the 2011 kids! My D is also in her second year of medical school - going to start rotations in May. Currently preparing for her step 1 exams.
@arisamp My D doesn't take her step 1's until early next year and she has already started rotations. I think it is interesting how different schools do it while still teaching the same basic curriculum.
S completed law school and he graduated a couple of weeks ago with both his JD and an LLM in Law and Entrepreneurship. Following a short post graduation break and trip, he and his GF will be back in his campus apartment for the next 7 weeks studying their bar prep materials for the bar exam in late July. Following the exam he will be traveling with his GF through mid-October when they both return to begin work as an Associates with their law firm from last summer's program in Silicon Valley.
Our D, who received her B.S. this past May, will be home for the summer before she starts her OTD (Occupational Therapy Doctorate) program at the Washington University Medical School in St Louis this coming August.
Needless to say, we had a very busy May with two graduations, a move home and a short trip.
S is extremely happy at the tech start up he started working for in Jan ‘17. Has had several promotions and now his company will be fully paying for him and the two other members of his team for MBA Certificate program at Northeastern. Those credits can be used towards MBA program if he ever decides to get his MBA.
@bajamm, congrats on your D’s engagement and @AvonHSDad, congrats on your son’s graduation from law school.
DS just completed his CA bar exam on Wednesday. Next stop is to get his law school apartment of three years packed up and moved to storage on the west coast. He and GF are then off to 8 - 10 weeks in Europe and Australia backpacking before heading back to Nocal to start work at the end of October. In three months he will know the results but he said he felt very good about the exam and is confident he will get a passing score.
This is likely my last post to this thread. Just wrapping up by saying DS got the good news yesterday that he passed the CA bar exam and is now officially employed as a first year associate with a Silicon Valley law firm.
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Our D, who received her B.S. this past May, will be home for the summer before she starts her OTD (Occupational Therapy Doctorate) program at the Washington University Medical School in St Louis this coming August.
Needless to say, we had a very busy May with two graduations, a move home and a short trip.
You can now breathe for a minute after your whirlwind May!
@bajamm, congrats on your D’s engagement and @AvonHSDad, congrats on your son’s graduation from law school.