New Job!

As the title implies, I recently accepted a new job! :D I'm so excited! My fiancee, Angela, is just as, if not more, excited haha. I wanted to post this particular event as a testimony, too. You see, I had been working at a major retail store since November last year just biding time and paying bills until I could find a job in my career field. Angela and I tried and tried to find a job for me. I had applied to numerous places and done a few interviews, but nothing ever really happened. So we prayed...and prayed...and prayed. Eventually we decided to just hand the entire situation over to God. After all, He knows all the plans He has for me (Jeremiah 29:11). This is where the story begins...

It was a Wednesday morning. Another morning like lots of others - talking to Angela on the computer while I mentally prepared myself for the stimulating night of work that laid before me. I had decided to write a thank you card to the company that really struck a chord with me. The interview had gone well, there was a little positive post-interview communication, and yet nothing had come of it. Well, I figured by now they had picked someone else for the position - evidenced by its removal from their website. My interview was almost 2 months ago, and I never got a reply to my most recent inquiry about the status of the position. At this point, I was OK with these circumstances. I just wanted to make sure they knew I was very interested in working with them. So I wrote the card...expressing my thankfulness, my desire to work for the company, and finished it with a hope of being remembered for a future opportunity. On the way to work, I dropped the envelope in the mail and breathed a sigh of closure...

The next day I went about my usual Thursday routine. However, when I came home from work that evening, I had a very unexpected email. Not only was it an email from the company which I so badly wanted to work for, but they were inquiring about my "employment status". After some emailing a second interview was established on the following Friday! Neither Angela nor I could believe it. Our hearts were reeling! We knew it had to be God. I thought the second interview went well, and left with smile on my face. During the interview, it was mentioned there was another person vying for the position so I figured it would be late next week before I heard anything. Then my phone rang. HR offered me the position that very Friday afternoon! Over the course of eight months, I had applied to two different positions at this particular company and went on two interviews for a completely different position. God is so good.

Now I would like to enumerate the ways His timing has been impeccable in this matter (and always will be for that matter):

1. He broke both Angela and I. We turned the matter over to Him and were thus able to grow in Him.
2. I'll have weekends off so wedding planning will be much easier for us.
3. My roommate may be leaving around the end of September, and there was no way I would have been able to cut my rent (let alone the rest of the bills) by myself at my old job.
4. It has relieved some stress with living arrangements after Angela and I get married.
5. I will be able to better assist with LifePoint's new ventures in its podcasting.
6. I thought I may have to work two jobs for a couple weeks (training at my new job Monday through Friday while I worked nights and possibly weekends at my old job), but HR graciously allowed me to put in my two week notice and start the Monday after that.