So much has happened in the last few weeks, it's been amazing! right before my last posting i'd had 4 telephone interviews and one face to face with a second one scheduled and all went very well. I wanted all of them because i felt that i was qualified and capable for all of them and to do them all but the one i truly wanted that i just knew with every part of me was mine is the one i got! i have cried tears of joy and thanked my Creator so much for this!
Back story; five years ago I was working for a major office equipment company and the only way i could move up or forward was to change my whole field of interest and that's not something i was really interested in doing so i started the job search and found a position with a major tourist spot and that gave me a boost in pay and a less stressful environment. I really enjoyed what i did and who i worked for, shortly after starting i got my first raise and i was excited by that and looked forward to being able to do some things that i needed to do for my family and myself...and then. The company started talking about how poor it was and how they had to cut back on spending so they did two things; one was they offered early retirements and second, they enforced 16 mandatory no pay days for two years and then another series of layoffs and early retirements. During the midst of this one of my supervisors quit and i applied for the position and got the promotion, however, they cut the salary by $10,000 so while it was an increase in salary it wasn't what it should have been. But i still rejoiced and was grateful and knew that something would change for the better. Well a year into it the management company decided to hand over the reins to another company that immediately spoke on cutting more staff, especially in my area so i started the search again and got nothing back. Another department started hiring so I told my oldest child and he was hired on part time. Shortly after that i began getting responses back from job inquiries, nothing major but at least they acknowledged that they had received my resume, whereas before i wasn't even getting that.
Now also during this five years the man God intended for me came into my life and i remarried, we moved shortly after the wedding and it became a very costly lesson learned because we put $18,000 into a large condo that we renting and then later found out that we were basically being shafted by unsavory people. So when the lease was up we moved into a much smaller apt in a less than favorable neighborhood so that we could save money to eventually buy our own home. A month into the new place i started getting calls to set up interviews and i accepted the job offer for the job i really wanted and the salary is so amazing because it is practically $20,000 more than what i make now and has comparable benefits. This allows my and my family to focus on doing the things we've wanted to do for our church and our family as a whole and i can look at going back to school to finish my degree.
Through all of this, the financial struggles and blessings i remained faithful in my belief that there was a purpose for it all and it would all pay off in the end. I guess my point is that you should never give up, know that you are worthy of more and isn't because you are such a wonderful person that deserves only good to happen but because you believed that there was a higher power in control that would reward you for your faithfulness during the struggles.
Keep the faith good people, peace and blessings!
