Thursday

No exercising today.  Got up early and drove to Charlotte to take an entrance exam for a Customs and Border Patrol job I applied for.  The title is "Border Protection Officer," which is different from "Border Patrol Agent."  From what I gather, BPO work at airports, harbors, and other ports of entry.  BPA work on the border itself.  Different uniforms, different titles, but same pay.

I applied for the BPA opening earlier this year and took their entrance exam in Charleston about a month later.  3 part test.  First section was logical reasoning, second was an artificial language (how easy you'll be able to learn Spanish in other words), and then a work history section.  I passed the exam with a 92 but haven't heard anything back from them.

I applied for the BPO opening a couple weeks ago and took the exam today.  It was 5 parts.  First was the same logical reasoning, then a mathematical reasoning section, then a grammar/punctuation/spelling section, then two work history sections.  Results will take 4 weeks, since apparently it takes that long to slide a Scantron answer sheet through a computer.