The Job Question

Having tackled first the 5 day cross-country road trip, then the epic "staying on the couch in someone else's one-bedroom apartment" experiment and the dogsitting fun, the girlfriend and I have finally ensconced ourselves in an apartment, albeit one with very little furniture, and are awaiting our furry bundles of joy.  How, you may be asking yourself, is all of this going to be paid for.  Or, perhaps more bluntly, "are they ever going to be employed?"  Believe me, we've been asking ourselves this since we arrived in Walnut Creek, now nearly a month ago.  I, in particular, have been feeling pretty down about the situation, because the economy is bad and I look on paper like someone who has very few skills that anyone outside of a college teaching situation would want or need.  This is not a good time of year to be looking for those sorts of jobs.  I have been trying to find other kinds of employment, with very little success.
I did, however, get an interview with one of those SAT prep course companies last week and was at least good enough to make it to the second interview, in which I will have to teach the same HR guy I talked to last week about misplaced and dangling modifiers.  On the phone.
For those of you who are unaware (read: not as grammatically nerdy as I am), you make a misplaced modifier when you make it modify something you didn't want it to.  So:  
Rolling down the hill, Bob was frightened that the rocks would land on the campsite.
The way it's written, Bob is rolling down the hill and is afraid rocks will land on the campsite.  This is probably not the writer's intent.  It is more likely that the writer meant:
Rolling down the hill, the rocks threatened the campsite and frightened Bob. Or 
Bob was frightened that the rocks, which were rolling down the hill, would land on the campsite.
So there you go.  With any luck, I should be able to convince the interviewer that I am "energetic, engaging and enthusiastic" and "able to teach complicated concepts clearly and easily".  And then I get my first part-time job, which would be between 5 and 10 or so hours a week, depending on the season (I didn't realize there were seasons for SAT prep, but there you go) and how many private tutoring sessions I get to teach.  
It is a little demoralizing that I've been looking for a job for a month and this is the first nibble I have gotten, but I guess that's how it goes.  The girlfriend had a final(ish) interview for the nonprofit job, so now we're just waiting for them to get their stuff together to make a decision.  She also has an interview for another job on Wednesday, so hopefully she, at least, will soon be employed full-time.  Keep your fingers crossed!