Got the job

Got the job!!  God is so good, and so good to me!

In our NorthRidge Church small group, we talked recently about whether or not our work is a:

1.  Way to make money
2.  Career
3.  Calling

I feel like I have been through all three of these in cycles.  Right out of b-school, I definitely wanted a career.  Marriage?  Probably.  Kids?  Mmmmm . . . maybe.  Career?  Absolutely definitely positively.

Then being married was so wonderful that we couldn't imagine anything better than growing our family and then work became an occasional way to make money.  Doing income tax returns for H&R Block, part-time clerical work here and there, mindless stuff where I learned how to gracefully accept criticism from people who would have worked for me in my earlier life.  Excellent humility training.

Then I re-entered Career.  Husband's pension minimized, social security unreliable, time to find a job that would get me back on an upward track for the next 15 years or so.  Thank you  to my last job for giving me that.  New experiences, new skills, new successes.

And now I am onto what I hope is Calling.  I am back, after 20 years, to doing what I love to do the most.  Supporting customers, developing relationships, solving problems, selling solutions.  And it is in a company that values sales and marketing, rather than seeing us as a necessary evil as my last company did.  And it is in a company where women are not an anomaly!

Given the financial debacle of our last 5 years, this path has been a great and wonderful thing.  Incredibly difficult, full of tears and sleepless nights, but a path that has shown us over and over again that this God who runs the universe also cares about me and my family.