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I had a job that was going well and I applied for a job that most newbies do not get. I prayed saying God if you want me to have this new job let me have it, if not close the door.I asked God if it was His will and I felt calm as though He said yes.
God gave me the new job but His plan was not my plan. I asked for the job hoping to do well at it but I was a miserable, horrible, horrible flop. I was the problem, I could not do the work. I would come in early and stay late but my performance was dismal. I had a lot of sleepless nights and time crying. I caught cold after cold, now in hindsight I realize that it was due to stress. Everything I touched turned to crap. It got to the point that I quit the job rather than continuing to fail at it and ultimately get fired.
I felt like a failure, but I did up my resume and sent it out and the response was good. After a month I started to get panicky. I nailed an interview for a job I really wanted but they were going to take a long time to make a decision. I interviewed for another job as well but for some reason all I felt was aprehension. I thought I only did O.K on the interview but the interviewer thought I did great.
On an October afternoon I was checking my old work email (they hadn't cut off my email access yet) and I saw that they got a replacement for me. About 10 minutes later I recieved a job offer,over the phone, from the position that I felt unsure of. My heart still wanted the other job that I really desired.
My work related self-esteem was pretty much shot after my miserable failure. All I could do was to surrender to God and pray that He protect me from the deciever and that He would move me as He needed. As mentioned before, God may place us in a job for His reason not our own, so I asked Him to place me where I could be of the most use. I stalled on the job offer because I was waiting to hear back from the company I really wanted to work with. Eventually that company called and told me I did not get the job, but I interviewed really well and they tried to put me in to 2 positions that I did not apply for, I declined them both.
I took the offer I was weary about, but I negotiated for a higher salary, I figured perhaps they would say no but they agreed to pay me more. So far the new job has been a blessing. I am making more than I made at the horrible job (recently got a cost of living increase at the new job), I am new but good at what I do, I am sooooo happy. After I had worked at the new job for about a week I got a call from the company I really wanted to work with, they offered me the position I had originally applied for. It felt right to decline the offer.
I think maybe I know what God wants me to work on at my new job, I have made a new friend who is a complete unbeliever. I have read that where God is at work, we should join in, the delivery man is a Christian and he has been sharing verses with the new friend. I am not sure how to reach her but I will try. I have made a lot of postive changes in my worklife but I'm continuing to develop myself, I'm reading about my profession and working at it in ways that I never have before.
What I have learned:
Asking God to open and close doors is not the best way to go.
God has a will and He will make it happen (I think He allowed me to take the job I was horrible at to teach me valuable lessons and get me out of that organization.)
The human measure of success doesn't alway match God's measure.
God may place you somewhere but it is important to find out why.
God may place you somewhere for reasons you didn't intend.
God will sometime allow you to be put in a horrible situation because He wants to move you somewhere else and teach you faith.
During hard times God teaches lessons - I learned that I needed to trust Him, spend time alone with Him, and pull back to see what I was doing wrong (since my horrible job experience I have become way more organized, responsive to authority and disciplined.)
When things are going horribly wrong ask God "Is this where you want me to be right now?" "Has your will for me changed?","What do you want to show me/teach me?"- It did not occur to me to ask Him these questions until He had delivered me from my "job storm".
Sometimes you just have to tell God you are finished and surrender to Him. "God I'm so tired, so scared, so broken, so disappointed that I don't want to deal with this, please you take care of it."
God will protect and keep you, even from yourself (when I was doing my old job horribly I frustrated people but they were never rude to me.)
Keep asking God what He is doing, you may not get and answer or you may get an impartial answer, or sometimes you can see the answer after you have made it out of the bad situation. (I think he put me in the horrible job to teach/show me the things I was doing wrong and lacking in, I think that He didn't want me in the company anymore and that He wanted to address my weak faith)
Trust God
Journal - write down what is happening, write down what you prayed about, write down what God revealed to you through prayer and reading. I'm not advocating Bible cutting, but when I'm in distress I often do and sometimes the verses I land on are very clearly intended for me in the situation I am in, sometimes they have made my cry because they have demonstrated God's concern for me and His faithfulness.
On the first day of my new job I read psalm 91 at my desk. I continue to ask for His protection and guidance everyday and "work as though working for the Lord."I am owning my job, it is mine and I am accountable.
God is good, even when we do not feel it, know that He was always good, is good and wil continue to be good even when we pass away.
God gave me the new job but His plan was not my plan. I asked for the job hoping to do well at it but I was a miserable, horrible, horrible flop. I was the problem, I could not do the work. I would come in early and stay late but my performance was dismal. I had a lot of sleepless nights and time crying. I caught cold after cold, now in hindsight I realize that it was due to stress. Everything I touched turned to crap. It got to the point that I quit the job rather than continuing to fail at it and ultimately get fired.
I felt like a failure, but I did up my resume and sent it out and the response was good. After a month I started to get panicky. I nailed an interview for a job I really wanted but they were going to take a long time to make a decision. I interviewed for another job as well but for some reason all I felt was aprehension. I thought I only did O.K on the interview but the interviewer thought I did great.
On an October afternoon I was checking my old work email (they hadn't cut off my email access yet) and I saw that they got a replacement for me. About 10 minutes later I recieved a job offer,over the phone, from the position that I felt unsure of. My heart still wanted the other job that I really desired.
My work related self-esteem was pretty much shot after my miserable failure. All I could do was to surrender to God and pray that He protect me from the deciever and that He would move me as He needed. As mentioned before, God may place us in a job for His reason not our own, so I asked Him to place me where I could be of the most use. I stalled on the job offer because I was waiting to hear back from the company I really wanted to work with. Eventually that company called and told me I did not get the job, but I interviewed really well and they tried to put me in to 2 positions that I did not apply for, I declined them both.
I took the offer I was weary about, but I negotiated for a higher salary, I figured perhaps they would say no but they agreed to pay me more. So far the new job has been a blessing. I am making more than I made at the horrible job (recently got a cost of living increase at the new job), I am new but good at what I do, I am sooooo happy. After I had worked at the new job for about a week I got a call from the company I really wanted to work with, they offered me the position I had originally applied for. It felt right to decline the offer.
I think maybe I know what God wants me to work on at my new job, I have made a new friend who is a complete unbeliever. I have read that where God is at work, we should join in, the delivery man is a Christian and he has been sharing verses with the new friend. I am not sure how to reach her but I will try. I have made a lot of postive changes in my worklife but I'm continuing to develop myself, I'm reading about my profession and working at it in ways that I never have before.
What I have learned:
Asking God to open and close doors is not the best way to go.
God has a will and He will make it happen (I think He allowed me to take the job I was horrible at to teach me valuable lessons and get me out of that organization.)
The human measure of success doesn't alway match God's measure.
God may place you somewhere but it is important to find out why.
God may place you somewhere for reasons you didn't intend.
God will sometime allow you to be put in a horrible situation because He wants to move you somewhere else and teach you faith.
During hard times God teaches lessons - I learned that I needed to trust Him, spend time alone with Him, and pull back to see what I was doing wrong (since my horrible job experience I have become way more organized, responsive to authority and disciplined.)
When things are going horribly wrong ask God "Is this where you want me to be right now?" "Has your will for me changed?","What do you want to show me/teach me?"- It did not occur to me to ask Him these questions until He had delivered me from my "job storm".
Sometimes you just have to tell God you are finished and surrender to Him. "God I'm so tired, so scared, so broken, so disappointed that I don't want to deal with this, please you take care of it."
God will protect and keep you, even from yourself (when I was doing my old job horribly I frustrated people but they were never rude to me.)
Keep asking God what He is doing, you may not get and answer or you may get an impartial answer, or sometimes you can see the answer after you have made it out of the bad situation. (I think he put me in the horrible job to teach/show me the things I was doing wrong and lacking in, I think that He didn't want me in the company anymore and that He wanted to address my weak faith)
Trust God
Journal - write down what is happening, write down what you prayed about, write down what God revealed to you through prayer and reading. I'm not advocating Bible cutting, but when I'm in distress I often do and sometimes the verses I land on are very clearly intended for me in the situation I am in, sometimes they have made my cry because they have demonstrated God's concern for me and His faithfulness.
On the first day of my new job I read psalm 91 at my desk. I continue to ask for His protection and guidance everyday and "work as though working for the Lord."I am owning my job, it is mine and I am accountable.
God is good, even when we do not feel it, know that He was always good, is good and wil continue to be good even when we pass away.
