so i applied at about two hundred places around town, and expected about all of them to call me back the next day, simply because of how awesome i am, and how professionally i completed my applications. this, however, was not the case, as is the case with most stories about patience and persistence. no, all of the managers failed to immediately recognize how incredibly talented, adaptive, good-looking, and talented i am.
as time went by, i did what any un-employee does. nothing. doing nothing took up a huge majority of my day. what i mean is that i spent almost all day doing nothing. it was very time-consuming. after a while, doing nothing got boring.
it was really time to work at that point. laziness was setting in pretty thick. i wanted a job but nobody had called me back yet, dangit. i was getting pretty impatient. so i did what any other christian who is in trouble does. i prayed. i actually prayed for a job. and, of course, nothing happened. until yesterday.
yesterday, i decided to get up early. i decided to drive to some (two) of the places i applied, praying during it all. and who would have guessed, (everyone who is intuitive enough to predict the endings of predictable stories) that i got two jobs.
God does not give you patience. if you ask for patience in a situation, He will probably make it suck more for you. no kidding. because really, that is exactly how you learn to be patient: you put up with crap you don't want to put up with for an extended period of time. i know that God knows what i need better than i know what i need (matthew 6:26) and this job thing has reminded me that when you ask Him for food, He usually gives you seeds.
maybe i'll start getting up early more often.
- 1:23 pm
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