Step into My Office
Tuesday August 28, 2007 | 9 comments
This post has been some eight months in the making. I was hoping to be able to write it sooner, much sooner, but at this point I am thankful to be able to write this at all. The past eight months have been extremely…well…difficult. Some of you have known about my struggle to find employment in the great state of Texas and I am finally at a place where I feel comfortable sharing my experience with the world wide web.
After I returned from Estonia in November of ‘06, husband and I moved across the country for his new fabulous job in Dallas, TX. Since then, we’ve been making friends, settling in, and just trying to carve out a space of our own here. Trying to find gainful employment has been a part of carving out this space and it’s been so much harder than I could have ever imagined.
I guess I was naive enough to believe that my Master’s degree actually meant something and was going to open up all kinds of doors for me. Not so. Let me back up—I am sure I could have had a job by now, the only problem is that I was very specific in what opportunities I wanted to pursue. I think I was ready for something lasting, some semblance of a career path I could stay on for a few years, at least. That, and I had just got a graduate degree so I figured I should try and find something that offered insurance and benefits.
I kept track of how many resumes I sent out for a while, but then the number began to swell to uncomfortable proportions so I had to stop counting to avoid getting seriously depressed. I think I have been going through the stages of grief in the past eight months, trying to climb out of some serious disappointment and learning to wait on God’s perfect will and timing.
I had to learn to give up my schedule, my desires, my understanding of where my life should go and a whole lot of other things which has been far from easy. Kudos to husband for sticking around with a not-so-fun me.
And now, well, I finally have a job! It feels so good to be able to say that, to write it, to think it. I can’t stop smiling. It’s not a full-time job and there are no benefits, but it’s in a field I have been excited about and wanting to get into, so this is my chance.
I will be doing academic counseling at a local community college starting yesterday and I absolutely can’t wait to get back into the working world. No more resume writing for me and definitely no more interviews, at least not for a while!
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woo-hoo!
Congrats! Hopefully this job will open the door to MANY more opportunities.
Awesome Olga! Congratulations on your job. I know it has been a long time coming. You are such an amazing woman!!! Blessings to you!
Thank you, thank you, thank you. I am liking my job so far and wishing it were full-time.
Congrats Olga!! We are so happy for you. I am glad that you found a job where you can put your degree to good work. I hope you love your job as much as I do!
This is great news! I praise God with you. Waiting is hard but so good – I have found this to be true in my own life. (I linked to an article I wrote concerning this last year – hope you don’t mind – I thought you would be encouraged and smile as you’ve come out of this waiting season!)
Who knows? Maybe you will work there for a while and have a baby in the next few years and be able to keep the job part-time???! :) God’s blessing may be something in disguise right now!
Kudos to your husband – I agree. I have grown to respect Nathan via the Godbit community and appreciate his hard work and help. In my experience my husband has had to put up with me in these kinds of situations many times (especially pregnancies!)—and well, what can we do but throw our arms around them and praise God for giving them to us?! God bless you both, and I pray that each day you wake up with a renewed love for God’s grace and purpose for all that he is doing in your family!
Congratulations from the James please say Hi to Nathan for us!
Pisma ne dobratsja do tebja napisat, vot dobralas do tvoego dnevnika! Pozdravljaju s dolgozdannim dnjom! Slava Bogu eto saluchilos! :)
Hi, Olga! Congratulations! I’m in Moscow serving at Eurasian Seminary (www.etsmsocow.org) plan to visit Wilmore in June-July 2008. God bless!