Yesterday, via connections through April, I found two jobs: one as a media analyst and another as a socail worker of sorts. The latter of the two is pretty much a gauranteed position, provided I am still interested after my Q&A tomorrow with one of the Supervisors (this is a guy who is the fiance of April's new step-sister). It's only 20 min. from my new apartment and I would be paid a likely base salary of $32,000 or so per year. Even if I decide not to take this position for whatever extreme reason, I still have a nice opportunity to work for my dad's company as a research assistant. I would work from home and could make roughly $1,000 per month part time--so this serves as an ideal plan B.
Also, in the same day, I applied and will likely get a spot in an apartment (privitely owned student housing) with three other guys. The rent includes all utilities, cable, and internet for a fun $411 per month. Provided I enjoy my time there and I take the forementioned job, I could definitely enjoy some savings for once in my life. Thank God!
My previous entry talked about attitude and faith. Today, I am seeing that faith begin to bare fruit. It's just as I said to April on the phone last week before all of this transpired: "Sweetie, my experience with God has been that you get what you pray for (within reason), but you don't get it HOW you would like; only He can see when the perfect timing is. Everything will be fine." Perfect timing indeed: I heard about these jobs the day after my last day at Polo, and just two hours after I put down my application fee to an apartment I thought I may be paying for in loans. Smile?... Indeed
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Smile...
I just got off the phone with my girlfriend; I wish so much I could provide for her. She is so amazing, so deserving that I wish I could buy her the world to travel across for the rest of our lives. It is in this time of need I feel so unworthy of such an amazing individual in my life.
Though I am still unemployed, I will still charge on to find work that will both keep me financially afloat as well as allow me to save for our future. So far, nothing has come up; and though I find myself getting discouraged, I must keep the faith that God has something waiting for me in the wings. I still have two weeks before I head over--plenty of time right?!? He made the planet and everything on it in seven days, he can surely find me a job given twice the time! I just have to make sure I keep meeting Him halfway and continue to have faith.
The funny, and at times unfair, part about that is I have to keep pluckin' along, meeting Him halfway until I find what he has set aside; I don't even know when this is supposed to be over. This is an endurance race where the finishline is unseen--and that makes it tough. (It's at this point that I often find myself reminding.... uh... myself of a particular bible verse.)
It is in these moments of discouragement that I think of my Grandmother's words when she broke two ribs 7 months ago (mind you, she's 84), and had nothing but a smile on her face despite the intense pain. I mentioned and complimented how she was taking it so well. "Well, there's no other way to be. I don't have much of a choice in the matter," she said with a half-cocked smile and a chuckle.
Ah, the lessons we learn about life from those more experienced and wise. "Lemons in to lemonaid", "attitude is everything", "God closing doors and opening windows"--whatever your chosen cliche to band-aid your emotions at the time, they all carry the same message: Wherever you find yourself in life (whether you found that situation or that situation found you), smile; there's really no other choice.
:)
Though I am still unemployed, I will still charge on to find work that will both keep me financially afloat as well as allow me to save for our future. So far, nothing has come up; and though I find myself getting discouraged, I must keep the faith that God has something waiting for me in the wings. I still have two weeks before I head over--plenty of time right?!? He made the planet and everything on it in seven days, he can surely find me a job given twice the time! I just have to make sure I keep meeting Him halfway and continue to have faith.
The funny, and at times unfair, part about that is I have to keep pluckin' along, meeting Him halfway until I find what he has set aside; I don't even know when this is supposed to be over. This is an endurance race where the finishline is unseen--and that makes it tough. (It's at this point that I often find myself reminding.... uh... myself of a particular bible verse.)
It is in these moments of discouragement that I think of my Grandmother's words when she broke two ribs 7 months ago (mind you, she's 84), and had nothing but a smile on her face despite the intense pain. I mentioned and complimented how she was taking it so well. "Well, there's no other way to be. I don't have much of a choice in the matter," she said with a half-cocked smile and a chuckle.
Ah, the lessons we learn about life from those more experienced and wise. "Lemons in to lemonaid", "attitude is everything", "God closing doors and opening windows"--whatever your chosen cliche to band-aid your emotions at the time, they all carry the same message: Wherever you find yourself in life (whether you found that situation or that situation found you), smile; there's really no other choice.
:)
Monday, July 24, 2006
Growth
Well, it's funny how you have this amazing post written out and some computer/software glitch does you the favor of erasing it, and insodoing, you find yourself evermore blunt and concise. Thanks, Microsoft.
Well, basically I talked about how this change in blogs was an appropriate change to represent my current situation. I am moving... no, not to Seattle as I had once thought a year ago, but to be with a woman (pictured right) who is so amazing, so inteligant, beautiful, so intoxicating, she should come with a warning label. I have totally fallin' in love with her, and am now aligning my future with hers.
It's amazing how, when thinking about my life just a year ago when just starting Polo, I react in amazment in how long that was ago. I feel like I have grown so much in this past year; and though growing pains do occur, I am so thankful for this time at home and the new heights for which I can observe the world.
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