Job Slammed: Chapter II - God Delivers

So, last night was the beginning of Rosh Hashonah, the Jewish New Year. I didn't go to a synagogue and celebrate, but I did take time to have a personal chat with God. I first thanked him. Although the past year wasn't everything I might have hoped for, my family and I were healthy and kept our financial heads above water, plus we began what is so far a healthy pregnancy (wood dutifully knocked). Though we didn't have as much success as I hoped, we had our needs met and then some, which is a lot more than a lot of people can say in this world. Rather than complain about not doing as well as I wished, I tried to be grateful for doing well enough to have so few reasons to complain.

Looking toward the next year, I asked God to help me be a good father to my older son and the son due to be born, to be a good husband to my wife, and to be healthier and more successful in my financial enterprises. I asked him to help me generate some good ideas and find the passion to make them happen. I asked him to give inspiration to the scientists trying to solve the world's climate and energy problems. And I asked God for hope and reasons to be hopeful.

Then I went to bed.

I was up late last night with some ideas about ressurrecting Burgerfinder.com that I had to do some work on before I could get them out of my head. And also because my dog, who sleeps on a pillow under the bed near where I rest my head, was farting in her sleep (major SBD's that went straight up to my nose - let's see you try to fall asleep as those waft in every 15-20 minutes). So I ended up sleeping in since it's not like I had to get up to go to work.

When I got online and checked my mail this morning, lo and behold, there's an e-mail from a manager on a previous contract gig at Microsoft. He knows another manager who needs someone to do a contract similar to the one I did for him and he wants to know if I'm available. I reply that I am. He tells the other manager, we have a phone call, and now I have an interview tomorrow.

It's only an "a-dash" position, meaning it can last a maximum of 1 year before I have to take a 100-day break, but it's work at a good rate of pay. They'll also be flexible about my hours/days in November so I can support my wife during her recovery from giving birth to our new baby.

I asked God for hope and reasons to be hopeful. I wasn't expecting God to deliver so quickly. I mean the period between Rosh Hashonah and Yom Kippur is His busy time. But even when He's most swamped, He found time to help me when I needed it. That's God for you.

We'll see whether I actually get offered the gig. But just this amazing serendipity, this hope, praying for good news before I go to sleep and waking up to it... big props to the man upstairs.

Hope all of you who are job hunting and have found this site have good luck too. And if you're not praying, perhaps you've stopped believing, try a prayer anyway. What have you got to lose?

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