It was not long, dad came home. We talked over dinner about the proposal I was working on for his office. He was glad I was making progress. I reasoned that with a week before school started back up, I could probably have the whole thing finalized before I went back to college.

"That'd be great. I can't make any promises, but I know that last time we used a free-lancer for something, they ended up with a full-time position almost immediately," he said. The thought of this turning into a full-time job hadn't crossed my mind at all.

"Especially for something like this," He continued. "Which would require some...