As several of you know, I've been really struggling at my stable job for the past few years. I've been testing the waters from time to time and I've been one of the final candidates for several other jobs.

I found out tonight that if I had gotten the job at the North American Mission Board that I really wanted, I would have been out of a job within two months time because they chose to outsource all of their design work. An old friend of mine lost his job there that way.

I also found out that the job I actually DID get and was planning to take at Monarch Computer this summer tanked as well. I mean... REALLY tanked. It hasn't been confirmed fully yet, but it looks like they went belly up and royally screwed over a BUNCH of customers. It's odd, because when I researched them out, they were one of the best computer manufactures according to everything I could find and had been around for over 15 years. This is a total shocker.

I'm so glad God has given me a stable job, even if it's not exactly what I want to be doing with my life. It gives me the free time that I need though to run this site and to do the other work I know I'm supposed to do AND time to spend with my family. God is defin in control... even when I would rather be.

I also guess this means that he's not done with me at Georgia State yet either. Hopefully, I'll figure out what my purpose there is soon now that I know I'm supposed to stay put for now.

Thanks to all who have prayed for me here. Esp. when I haven't shared a lot of the details.

Yeah. God can do some cool stuff with things that bum us out at first. My career kind of went the opposite way of Dave's. The location where I used to work (and loved working at) was closed by the parent company.

Short version: I went back to school, got a master's degree in Computer Science (total out-of-pocket cost under $500), and God provided a much better-paying job (I'm making 2.5x what I was making 10 years ago at the other company, which enabled my wife to be at home with our kids, which is what she always wanted) in a working environment that's a lot like my other job.

(Ironic side note: When I got back to my office after the company-wide "you'll all be unemployed in 6 months" meeting, I had a letter waiting for me. It was from the president of the parent company thanking me for my 5 year's of service to the company.)