Job Applications

It's probably a little early to start thinking about a job, since I need to be done with my research really to take on a new job, but whatever I am anyway.
I found what I think might be the perfect job for me this past week and I want this job. I have always really cared about education and particularly education in the sciences, because it was a way out of poverty for me and  because science literacy is really a huge issue in this country. We can't ask people to fund our research if they don't see value in what we do and scientists haven't always done a good job explaining how our research really impacts and shapes the world we live in.
I told myself that if I could find a job where I could do that, because that is what I really love about my current "job" as an NSF fellow, then I would jump on it, no matter what. It's in D.C., so the pay would have to be halfway decent and that would mean enough money to fly back and forth to see Senior Jefe if he couldn't get stationed close by. Right?  It's not that I want to do more of this insane geobachelor lifestyle, cause I don't. In fact I despise it, but the perfect job is elusive and therefore worth chasing, wherever it leads. Besides, I don't know if they would even consider me seriously for it. I guess the worst case scenario is I don't get the job, in which case I am right where I am now.
But let's cross our fingers that I get the dream job *cross,cross*. :D

If not, I am applying for the DoD SMART scholarship to fund another year in grad. school. I have talked to the DoD and they like be because I am married to Senior Jefe and because I sold them that my research is not all that different from biological corrosion research, which it isn't. So I could be working on designing more impervious hulls for Navy ships, which would keep my husband that much safer and make me that much happier.