How I Got a Job

As I mentioned in my previous post, I have a job! I haven't started yet, but I will get some more information about it tomorrow. It is just a temporary position at walmart to help with their remodeling until the end of July, but it is full time and I will have a steady 8-5 M-F position! Perfect! I won't have to worry about leaving a job because I will leave when the job is done. I will also be able to buy CS5 with my student discount, pay back my parents a little bit for my summer class, and work on replenishing what I used up last summer when I didn't have job. I don't foresee it being a very bad job. Not exactly my dream or anything, but I will being doing something I'm capable of and have no problem doing. I hope it will be at least somewhat enjoyable if not at least tolerable since I will be doing it for awhile and for a good portion of the day. But after 5pm I will have the evening to do whatever I please with no threat of homework! And I will get payed instead of having to pay! (yay!) Anyway, I'd like to tell you about my experience in getting this job. I have been looking for a job relentlessly since spring break. Yes, spring break. And I have been calling places almost every week since I put in all those applications. Not joking. I figured my persistence would land me a job without too much trouble. Well, yeah, and no. I told God that I would work anywhere He wanted me to, even if it wasn't where I wanted to, as long as He gave me job. At first things seemed to be going ok. I got an interview pretty quickly at starbucks and had a great interview and the lady was totally going to hire me I think...but I wasn't staying after the summer and they don't hire temporary because of training and such....sigh. So I couldn't have the job. Hastings needed some people at their coffee shop and I called them probably every week trying to get an interview. But they were always busy and never got around to giving me one even though they said they would. Sigh (x2). I applied at walmart because I knew they were hiring for remodeling and such and they called me not long after I applied to tell me they had a 2-11pm position and it was mine if I wanted it. Well, I did need a job, but I couldn't take it because I have been taking a summer class and have to devote a lot of time to it. It was agreed that I shouldn't take the position and so sadly I couldn't get that job either. I was worried that maybe I had misheard and the God wanted me to take that. I told Him that if He wanted me to work there, then to give me another chance. I called them a few times with no luck to see if they had anything else open. Well, needless to say I was getting discouraged. I was working really hard to make sure I wasn't slacking in my job hunting and doing everything in my power to get one. I didn't want to just ask God for a job and then just sit around and wait. That isn't right. So, the fact that I was trying so hard and God still hadn't given me a job didn't make me feel too hot. I was doing my best to trust that God had a job for me and was going to provide me with the right one (or any one) but it was really hard. On Wednesday night when I was going to bed, I told God that I felt like He had just kind of abandoned me. I had been asking Him constantly, like many times everyday, what am I supposed to do??? What is it that I am supposed to me doing and why haven't you given me a job? Did I miss something here? Was I supposed to take that job at walmart, even though I felt like I shouldn't? Did I misunderstand you? What the heck?!? So, yes, that about sums up how I was feeling. I knew that He was still there, but I couldn't help feeling alone and abandoned. This had been going on for weeks and weeks. I begged Him that night to give me some sort of a sign that He was still there and He hadn't just left me out by myself. The next day (Thursday) I was waiting for Nick to come pick me up after class and decided to take my spare time to call Hastings and Walmart for the millionth time. Hasting once again just took my name and number because they were too busy to actually let me talk to anyone important. I called walmart and they said they would look and see what was available and call me back. I figured it would be awhile before they returned my call, but just a minute or two after I had hung up they called me and said that they had a 2-11 shift (the one previously offered to me) and a 8-5 shift. Perfect! I only have one more week of school so I would be able to start almost right away if I got the job. she scheduled me for an interview the next day (Friday) at 10:15. I didn't have class the next day so that was great. I got up and went to the interview the next day and was slightly nervous because I saw a few people there for interviews and didn't want to get outdone and someone else get the job. I finally went in (I thought that they forgot about me or didn't know I was there!) and had an interview with a nice lady that made me feel a lot more at ease since I was a little bit nervous. I went back out and she said someone would come get me for a second interview. A little bit later a guy came back to get me to interview me a second time. It went well and I saw him mark "excellent" or "highest" on the sheet he was reading from. I was able to use a lot of class and media lab examples and thankfully I had though things over the night before so only once did I have to pause and think before answering a question. The interview went well and he told me to come back on Monday to do some stuff and that at some point I would have to go get a drug test done, get a tour and all that jazz and then I would start getting payed at this time ect. So, I'm pretty sure that means I got the job! I was so relieved, and to make the day even better Nick stole me away for a day together (which you can read about on my previous post)! I thanked god over and over for giving me a job and for being faithful. He knew that I was getting discouraged and needed Him to show me he was still working. Sure, I didn't have a job right away when I wanted it, but since I won't start working until after my class is over I won't have to stress about not being able to give enough attention to my class. Although it seems like a pain most of the time to me, His time is always better. And now I have an even better shift than I would have had originally! And will be able to get off work the same time Nick and my dad do, so I will have the time free to spend time with them! I was worried that I wouldn't get to spend much time with Nick if I was working full time, but with a steady 8-5 job I will be able to be with him as much as he is available! God sure is good, even when I feel like I have let him down, He still takes care of me. =)