Relieved and Grateful

The job that Jacob started on Tuesday lasted all of 3 hours.  He left the job after deciding that it wasn’t what he was looking for at all.  In turn I began to feel a bit paniced not knowing what was going to happen now that he had quit two jobs in less than 24 hours with nothing to fall back on.  We live paycheck to paycheck right now as it is.  All I could think of was the fact that we barely have the money to pay this month’s bills let alone be able to afford rent next month.  We really are in the group of people in this country that are only 2-3 paychecks away from being homeless.  It can be quite scary.

We’ve been stupid with our finances and now we are paying the ultimate price of trying to claw ourselves out of this hole that we willingly jumped into.  Regardless, I’m going to stay optimistic that we will get ourselve back to where we used to be.  Like when I was working at Cisco.  With the economy the way that it is, this really isn’t the time to be having to deal with even more of a financial burden than is necessary.

So back to Jacob and his decision to quit all forms of work that he had on his plate and find something else.  Luckily this time around he knew that he didn’t have unemployment to fall back on.  He knew that he was going to have to work fast to find a job.  When this first started at the beginning of this week, I was a tad upset and mad that he wasn’t thinking logically by walking out on not one but TWO jobs with nothing else lined up.  Of course I realized nothing good was going to come of me being mad about the situation.  I started praying that we would be provided for and that we wouldn’t incur to much financial hardship due to the situation.  I did my best to help him get his resume emailed out to as many companies as he could find.  He made numberous calls, and got some interviews set up.

The first interview was yesterday morning and it went okay, but he wasn’t too enthusiastic about the outcome of it.  He quickly was able to set up another interview for yesterday evening.  That interview went a lot better.  It was with a really sweet older lady, and they hit it off immediately.  She loved the fact that he was a good Christian man and even went so far as to say that she had been praying that she find a good guy to fill the position.  The problem was that she could only afford to pay him $11/hour, no benefits, and no guarantee of full time hours.  It was also the type of job that we would have had to set aside a certain amount out of each check to pay into taxes at the end of the year.  Obviously we are still working on our budgetting skills, so as sweet as she was, he had to tell her that he did have another interview set up for this morning.  She was very understanding and thanked him for his honesty.  She was sad because she was pretty certain that he would get the other job, but she understood and was supportive of his decision.  If he didn’t get the job after the next interview, she told him that he had the job she was offering.

So that was at least SOMETHING although not ideal.  Well this morning he got up bright and early and went for the last interview that he had set up.  It was at 7:00 a.m. and he made sure to be there on time.  By 8:30 when I got up for work, he hadn’t come home so I assumed that he probably got the job.  At around 11:30 this morning, he called me at work to see if there was enough money in the bank for him to get lunch.  I had assumed correctly and he was calling me on his lunch break.  He is doing exactly the same thing he was doing at the other landscaping job.  And in addition to starting immediately, he is going to be making $2 more per hour than at the other landscaping job.

I am so unbelievably relieved and grateful that everything has ended up turning out for the best.  Obviously things happen for a reason, and when it comes down to it, God does provide.

Well… only one workday left for the week!  I’m ready for the weekend.  We have some things planned and will probably stay pretty busy.

It’s still fairly early right now, but I think I’m going to maybe go to bed early.

Goodnight!
JamieLynn =)