To God be the Glory!!!

This is the second time I've tried typing this post and something happens that I lose it, so I'm giving you the condensed version...

I've been looking for a job for the past month or so in order to help out with household finances...

I was offered a retail position a few weeks ago but turned it down due to the hours (7 days a week, anywhere between 8 a.m. and 9 p.m.). I had told them I could NOT work Sundays and Wednesday evenings due to church and the manager said "I could have chosen to have a scheduled day off too but I chose not to so that my availability gave me the maximum hours". A check in my spirit over that one comment was the deciding factor in turning down the position. Besides... the hourly rate was 60% lower than what I had been making previously. I mean... I know I may have to start at the bottom... but I wasn't willing to start at ROCK bottom!... lol After all, my Father has all the riches in Glory so was this where He wanted me to be? I felt... no!

So... a few more weeks of sending out resumes... no responses... the devil even started working on my mind and telling me that maybe I was to call the retail store back and see if they would still take me. Then I got a call last Thursday to go for an interview later that afternoon for a receptionist position... Mon-Fri... 9-6. Let me just say this... I never wanted a job answering phones and working with the public and 9-6??? Yuck! It would be after 7 p.m. every night before I would get home. But I was not getting much response from my resume and something told me that this job would be less stress than my previous... I could leave my work AT work and not wake up in the middle of the night thinking about all the things I had to get done the next day or how many things I hadn't completed the day before. Why?, you may ask, would I even apply for a job that I didn't really want? Two answers... I had previous GM experience so it was familiar and I was not getting any response otherwise so something was better than nothing!

During the interview, the manager stressed that he felt that I was not well suited for this position and he felt that if I took it, I'd be bored. He knew my previous salaries and was afraid that after making "these kinds of wages", that what he was offering was not very attractive. I assured him that I would be ok with it. And I really would be because the 'stress-free' job would be an acceptable alternative. As stated in a previous post, it's not all about the money!

Anyway... I left there with a promise that he would call me for a second interview if he felt the need as he had 4 or 5 others to get to. Either way, he'd call me. I received a call late Friday afternoon to let me know that I was in the top 2 or 3 and he would call me early in the week to schedule that 2nd interview.

In the meantime, I received a call from a building supply company in the SE industrial for an accounts payable/payroll position. Perfect!!! Just the job for me! I have been saying for years, that I'd like to get back into bookkeeping and payables/payroll would be my ultimate choice. I met the general manager and controller on Monday afternoon... interview was a breeze... I've got all the qualifications they're looking for... stable company. I left there walking on air!

I stopped by Mom & Dad's house and Dad asked me about the interviews. I explained the companies. After I told him about the receptionist position, he just looked @ me and said "I think that's the company you should be working for". I said "Really? But it's 9-6 (I'd rather work 7-4), answering phones, helping public and it's for a GM dealer... where's GM going to be in a few months?". He just looked at me and said, "Well, I just feel what I feel."

So... here I am, leaving my accts payable/payroll interview. I was not even out of the industrial park when I received a call for my 2nd interview for the receptionist position. I agreed to meet them the next morning (yesterday morning) at 10:30. I arrived 15 minutes early and the manager was busy. He finally straightened everything away and came to get me. He had the controller sit in on the interview. I never thought twice about it. So... he started out by telling me that he had thought about it all weekend and he just didn't feel that I was suited for the receptionist position and was I sure that I would not be bored after 3 days. I assured him I would be ok and that once I took a job, I would stick with it. They asked me what my ultimate position would be and I honestly told them that I would love to be doing payroll/accts payable and that accounting was always my passion. I also told them that previous bosses had told me I was not agressive enough for accts receivable and that I was too soft-hearted... lol

Sorry... I'm supposed to be making this a short story... They told me that the reason the controller was sitting in on the interview was due to my extensive bookkeeping experience, she was looking at possibly hiring me instead of the other department. (I didn't even know she was hiring.) But, she only had a position in accounts receivable at the time.

Then they assured me that after looking at my resume, they didn't want to lose out on hiring me. The manager then suggested that he was thinking of creating a new position in his department that he felt I would be suited for (of course I would be, he was creating it with me in mind... lol) and that he felt the receptionist position was not for me. Besides, the receptionist that they were replacing because she had worked her last day on Friday and was supposed to be moving to BC with her Mom, had called him on Monday morning and asked if she could have her job back because she had changed her mind about moving.

God is SO good. Anyway... they thanked me for coming in and they wanted to 'discuss' things and they would get back to me with 'something'... either the created position or an accounting position. I received a call within an hour and a half with an offer for the 'created' position... Mon-Fri... make my own hours as long as it's at least 7.5 hours per day... I can start and finish whenever I want... and the salary is more than 20% higher than the receptionist position... even higher than the accts receivable position! He told me that if I would accept his offer, he would call me later to let me know when to start. I didn't even have to think about it. I could feel that God was ALL over it and Dad's reassurance was correct. (Not that I doubted it... well, ok... maybe a little... lol)

So... as I'm typing this post, I received the call. I start tomorrow morning and they are SO excited to have me come on board.

GOD... YOU ARE SOOOOOO AWESOME! THANK YOU JESUS!!!

Soooo... I am now ending my long story that was supposed to be condensed to a short story... lol I just wanted to thank you all for your prayers and help along the way. We're not out of the woods yet... but I can see sunlight from here!!!

p.s. Hubby is now looking at an offer that may mean changing jobs once again... but it could turn into a blessing for us as well as some others in the church. Please keep this in prayer that God will guide him in what direction to take and that if this is the right thing for all involved, that the transition would be flawless. Only God!!!

God Bless! Love you guys!