Upswing

Looks like things are taking a turn for the better.  And I can’t tell you how relieved I am for the upcoming change.  So here’s the story…

Last Sunday, Pastor Kevin gave a sermon about different ways that God reveals Himself in our lives.  It was a great sermon, and I took a lot from it.  At the end of the sermon, Kevin even went on to ask the Lord that if it was His will and if he felt so inclined to feel free to reveal Himself to us this week by providing Jamie (that’s me) with a new job.  In a sense I began to feel a little bit of pressure, but something was different about that day.  Even before all this was said, I felt the Lord all around me during service and worship.  All in all it was just a powerful day I guess.

I had been to two interviews the Friday before all of this, and I had a follow up interview on Tuesday for one of the positions.  The one job had told me that they probably wouldn’t be making any decisions about who they would be hiring until the end of the next week, but that was the job that I was most interested in.  It is a full-time permanent position that pays rather well and includes benefits.  I was prepared to wait it out, but in the meantime I had also been called in for an interview for a seasonal position which led to a second interview.  The second interview went well and I was offered the job at the end of it.  They asked if I needed to think about it, and I said yes explaining that I had also had an interview with another company.  The manager’s assistant asked me about the other position, and I explained to her what it was and what would be offered should I get the job.  She agreed with me that I should take the other job instead if it were offered since it was quite a bit more than what they were able to give me. In the meantime though, she told me to go ahead and accept their offer and if I was offered the permanent position, I could just let her know and she would understand.  So I accepted the offer.  Seems that the manager I had interviewed with was pretty impressed with me anyway, and I was told that after the seasonal assignment ended I would have a really good chance of getting hired on permanently.

After I accepted the temporary job, I headed to my car so that I could go take a drug test for the job.  I had missed a call on the cell phone while I was in the interview, and low and behold there is a voicemail from the HR manager at the job I was interested in.  Even though it was only Tuesday, they had decided that they would like to go ahead and move forward with my background and reference check.  I couldn’t believe it.  I literally had pretty much just been offered both of these jobs simultaneously.  I started laughing and crying at the same time.  The first thing I thought of was Kevin’s request for the Lord to reveal Himself to us by providing a new job for me.  Here I was being provided with not ONE but TWO jobs at the SAME time.

So here’s the deal.  At the moment I have both jobs.  I am going to start training for the seasonal position on Monday.  Why?  Because although my references and background check have come through with flying colors at the job that I prefer, they are still waiting for my credit check to come back.  They run a credit check simply because I will have access to all of the customer credit card numbers, and they want to ensure that I don’t have any sort of credit card fraud in my past.  I don’t, however, my credit is shot.  I’m the first to admit that I have BAD credit.  When I was younger there was no such thing as budgeting or financial management in my vocabulary.  I’m certain that if they go by my credit as a whole, that this job that I would love to have is going to slip through my fingers in the blink of an eye.  HOWEVER, I was straight forward with the HR manager.  I haven’t had credit cards for at least nine years now.  Anything that is actually credit card related has fallen off of my credit report by now.  She said that they are specifically looking for credit card related issues.  If that’s the case, then I should be fine.  She reassured me that she is pretty confident that it will be okay, and that the job is mine.  I, on the other hand, have decided I’d rather be safe than sorry.  Instead of completely passing up the seasonal position, I’m going to go ahead and start the training class, and if at that end of the week the other job is a go, then I’ll let them know that something more secure has come up.  If the other job doesn’t pan out… well… I STILL HAVE A JOB!!!

That is great news!!!  I HAVE A JOB!!!  I’m ecstatic!!!  Yes… I pray that I still get the job that I really want, but if not… THAT’S OKAY!!!

God is good!

In unrelated news, the Huskers SUCK!  I’m so disappointed in the performance of our offense.  If it wasn’t for Ndamukong Suh, our team would be 100% pathetic.  Luckily for them, they have Suh to hold them up.

So there’s the news I’ve been holding onto all week.  I didn’t really want to say anything until I knew which job I was going to have for sure, but it looks like I won’t know for sure until later this week.  BUT… I do have a job regardless.  PTL!