Employment

long time no post. Na was really good, I'm still wearing my wrist band thingy and people keep asking me what happened to me and why I was in the hospital, becuase it looks like a hospital tag. anyway, if you didnt go I would recommend you download the sessions and have a listen. http://www.newattitude.org/conference check them out.


so anyway, main topic, employment, mine to be specific. yesterday I started working at KSU for a professor doing research. right now I'm still just learning how to use the programs and haven't actually done anything yet. but anyway here is an overview of my employment history .

sowers press and character corner were technically my first jobs, but since i was working for my parents i dont really know if those count so i'll start with being a lifeguard at 15. my mom wanted me to be cpr, first aid and lifeguard certified because of all the little siblings i have, so that she would feel more comfortable when all of us went swimming. she was talking to one of her friends about it and they told her of a neighborhood pool that was in need of a lifegaurd. know people, get the hookups. summer job, yeah. the other lifeguard quit in like the middle of june so I was the only lifeguard, so i had to be there 11-5 everyday, except sundays when it was 1-5 so i could go to church. it was cool at first but after two months of sitting under "Foster's, Australian for Beer" to avoid the sun. i was done being a lifegaurd.
didnt really do anything substantial after that until i started working at Panara Bread my senior year of HS. Matt wanted me to work there with him and I think he felt he owed me cus I gave the lifeguarding job. I cleaned everything and made coffe and tea. not bad, just boring. worked jan til august when i started going to GaTech.
spring break 05 i came home saturday and said "I should really get a job since I'm not going anywhere". monday I was being "trained" by Tim at Sonic. Jon when to Andre and told him "my brother wants to work here". i filled out the application for record keeping purposes my second week on the job. pretty fun job when all the cool people worked there. the general manager possition changed hands 8 times in the year and a half i worked there. the job itself wasnt all that bad, but the boss was pretty much a jerk and didnt know how to run his store at all. I got fired while i was out of town because of another general manager switch. boss man never said a word for me, even though I'd been his fall guy on many occations. whatever, i was about to quit anyway. I will never work in fast food again...
jon found out about cutco while he was at college, got me into it. awesome knives, brilliantly made , but super expensive. If they weren't so awesome and didnt have the lifetime warrenty i would probably feel bad about all the people I duped into buying them. I cant stand salesmen, and i really cant stand being one. never again.
last december Trent started working at HomeDepot, and remembering the good times we had at Sonic, and the fact that I was jobless. He convinced me to apply, and put in a good word for me. not a bad job at all. really good pay. but none of the higher ups liked me except the black lady that got fired. i only worked weekends. most of the people that worked there were doing it as their actual job, so it had the paperwork and "professionalism" of a real job. but it was part time work, and I could not reconsile this with them, so I quit.
I've also done lots of other random things, like I worked for Hudson Landscaping Services one day. I've proctored the SAT. worked on a couple campaigns (side note to chandler: my dad reminded me of two we helped out with a long time ago, I didnt lie to charlice on purpse...)., I've worked at TKA doing consturction, cleanup, teaching, etc. and there are couple other things I've done.
now I am a researcher.
why is this job so much different than all my other ones?
easy
every other job I've ever had someone helped, or forced, me to get. this one, completely out of the blue, random email. significance? I tried for about a month to find one of these research positions back in the spring, becuase I need it to graduate. I got nothing. So I prayed and asked God to take care of it, quit worrying about it and put my trust in Him. now, completely out of no where, just when I need it. He drops this on me. I would consider this the first "real" job I've ever had, the only thing I'd be proud of to put on a resume. and I had nothing to do with getting it. she sent the email to about 50 people. no one else responded. no contestation. sound like a job arranged perfectly with me in mind? No doubt in my mind. He set this up for me. I'm just glad I was patient, but with a purpose. waiting on Gods timing. most of the time students end up spending 8-10 hours a week in a lab doing research for a professor for the two credit hours that it counts for, because they have to to graduate. very rarely to they get paid. even more rarely do they get paid what I'm going to be paid. better than I could have possible hoped for.

Now to him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to his power that is at work within us, to him be glory in the church and in Christ Jesus throughout all generations, for ever and ever! Amen. Eph 3:20-21