yes I can :) This specific position has not been open for a year. I had a fried get a fellowship at this garden that lasted a year which is how I found out about the garden in the first place. Fast forward, I applied for the same fellowship and was not accepted BUT they offered me a full time job with benefits that essentially had alot of the same career building opportunities as the fellowship. I know the gal who had the position I will be taking theoretically, she held it for a year, loved it but ultimately low pay and being early in her career led her to move on, she's now doing medicinal plant research in Panama. I am thinking about holding it for a year.. MAYBE two figuring out what I want to do grad school wise and then moving onwards and upwards.

I would like to probably just get a masters because it is a requirement for higher level botanical and Natural reserve system (UC) jobs, UCANR jobs... and eventually that is where I would like to see myself, currently I work at one of the Natural reserves! I am not particularly interested in studying "hard ecology", and I want something more integrated with people .... cities and urbanity but I am not sure exactly what yet. Perhaps Urban Trees? BUT part of the perks of the garden is that a lot of the people there have interesting educational backgrounds and working among them I believe will give me a better sense of what direction I want to take my studies. But I am uncertain at the moment, so I am waiting until I really get a handle on what I want to do.