Just in case you're confused about my job adventures, here's the scoop.

I applied for this job at this company. They wanted to hire me, but they said I first needed to contract with them for 30 days to see how we would all get along. If at the end of 30 days everything was going well, the company would convert me from contract to permanent full time status.

I started on March 17 and if I was going to convert to FTE status, my official hire date would be April 19.

I was very lucky because the company decided that they liked me, I liked them, and so they offered to convert to full time status two weeks earlier than originally planned and they also gave me more money.

Make sense?