I would call it being crushed by the world. My husband lost his job too. I am hoping like you that God rescues us soon. Prayers going up for you Watchman and for your husband, Blue. If we are still here after Sept I will have to start looking for work myself and in the back of my mind are the dreaded thoughts of ... “I don’t want to have to wear a mask all day at work let alone be required to have the vaccination shot”. Praying we are all rescued and taken home SOON before all this comes to pass. Keep the faith and keep being thankful. Jesus loves His children and promises to provide our daily needs. :amen: Thank you for the prayers. The interview seemed to go pretty well from my perspective. Of course, you never know for sure what is going on in the interviewer's mind ("...Can't wait to get done with this guy. Well, once we got the Zoom up and running, it was already 1045. Interview ended up lasting until 1130, when the main guy had a hard stop. Again, it seemed like it went fairly well from my perspective. Just the fact that it lasted longer than scheduled is usually a pretty good indicator. Anyway. Should know something more hopefully by end of the week. Position would start in August, preferably early August from his perspective, but could end up being mid-August before they can get through all the hiring hoops. That would give me enough time to have the job sitting there for me, but still be raptured before I ever actually work a day on it, thereby aligning with what I thought I heard from the Lord several years that I would not have another job before we were raptured. Time will tell. I'll keep you posted. It is nice just to have a job possibility on my list that I don't have a reason to scratch out. Oh, and if we happen to meet in the air or around the throne before I communicate my next update here on RITAN, you can safely assume the point has become eternally moot. Just sayin'. Maranatha!!! Update: As of today, I am up to 150 job applications in just over four months of being unemployed. Smh. Have followed up on 99% of all leads that have come to me from a multitude of sources. At the end of July, I had six active leads I was working. As of the news today, all but one of those leads have become closed doors, and the one that remains theoretically open felt like a long-shot to me from the beginning, so I don't hold out much hope on that one. Many of the jobs that I felt like I was well-qualified for and being given serious consideration for have become doors slammed in my face for a variety of reasons. The person who was going to leave to create the opening decided to stay. The position has now been placed on hold indefinitely. The position has now been filled internally. The hiring manager decided we did not need the position after all. We originally planned to higher three project managers, but a decision was made to reduce that to 1. And on and on and on it goes. I almost have to laugh at this point--at least for the moment all the tears have already been cried. It could not be more painfully clear to me that God is absolutely choosing to keep me from finding a job as a project manager. There is no other explanation in my mind and I cannot tell you why. I told Him if He is trying to teach me some sort of lesson, He needs to help me understand what that is because right now I have no idea what I am suppose to learn. It just seems like pointless pain and futility. I literally walk around the house alone some days, screaming at the Lord at the top of my lungs asking Him what He is supposedly accomplishing by this torment? Meanwhile, as a man trying desperately to find work to provide for my family, the rejection and sense of failure brutally assaults my soul, while my God sits on the sidelines. I have no idea what God wants me to do?!? And just to make things even more difficult and painful, now I am fighting painful sciatica and debilitating headaches from my neck into the lower part of my head, which is making it harder to get out on the street corner and walk my rapture warning sign. The longer I am here on this planet, the more I hate it and long to be removed from it!! I wanted to finish this life strong and victorious for the Lord, running hard right through the finish line. Feels now like God has determined I should finish it crushed, bloodied, and crawling to make it to the end. Just for the record, Lord, it is not even remotely close to what I would have chosen! I can't tell you how much I hate the curse! Sure I hope I don't run into Adam or Eve! TR
Was supposed to start at 1030 and last until 1100. Well, the recruiter screwed up the details, and instead of the straight phone interview it was supposed to be, it was changed last minute to a video Zoom. That sent me scurrying into the closet last minute to pull out a work shirt to throw over my t-shirt. LOL. I did my best Shaun Hannity imitation, with my dress shirt in the camera while wearing shorts and flip flops off camera. LOL.
