Rewarding

I haven't been sleeping well since I got to Maryland.  I got zero sleep the night before I left and on a good night I'll get about six hours.  This was lack of sleep is why I didn't make it to church on Sunday.  I bring this up because on multiple occasions I've had the prompting from the Spirit that I needed to go to church in order to introduce myself to someone who would get me a job.  Because of this, even in my extremely exhausted state, I nearly went.  However, I couldn't even speak I was so tired, so I decided to wait until the following week.

Well, since Ian and Amanda moved to the area not long ago, the Bishopric arranged to stop by for a few minutes to get to know them a bit better.  Since I'm new as well, I sat in the meeting.  Ian introduced me and briefly explained my current situation and one of the counselors said that he might be able to get me a job at his contracting firm.  This was echoed by the Bishop.  They asked me to bring some copies of my resume to church this Sunday.  While this is clearly not a job yet, I feel optimistic about the outcome.

Men tend to identify themselves by the work that they do (it's the first thing that comes up during introductions).  By not having a job for so long, and when I did have a job it wasn't in my field, I couldn't identify myself by what did for a living.  That's why I had started to partially identify myself by what I owned, because I had lost a part of myself by being either unemployed or underemployed.  Without a job, without any property, without my family, I was losing track of who I am.  Now that I have a couple of contacts that have asked for my resume, I think I have a good chance of being the most complete that I've been in some time.