My Job Hunting has Ended :)

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I have been so excited to make this post.  I have been praying, as have many of you, that God would allow me to have a position in a private Christian preschool here in Louisville.  Last Thursday I received a phone call from Christian Academy of Louisville asking me to come in for an interview for a position opening for assistant preschool teacher.  On Friday, I went to the interview, and was very impressed with the school campus.  The campus is located in a very nice neighborhood in the east end of Louisville.  The large newly built brick education center houses grades preschool - 12.  There is about 1,500 students attending this school.  The interview went well, the only concern that the interviewer had with my resume was that I may be overqualified for the position.  Those are words that I have never heard before when I have been job hunting.  When I heard those words it caused me to think back to my first experiences of job hunting.

I was probably just about 18, and I was just entering college in Northern California for the first time.  I can remember filling out so many applications for all sorts of different kinds of jobs.  The answer was always the same from all the perspective employers:  "You don't have any experience or qualifications."  I can remember being so frustrated.  I thought "how in the world am I going to get experience or qualifications if I never get hired on anywhere?"  God was faithful then and gave me a good job after teaching me a lesson in patience.  This memory made me laugh as I sat in the preschool director's office and I heard her say that I was overqualified for the position.  (I didn't really laugh out loud, just inside.)

The preschool director was from California, and we hit it off right away.  She was so nice, and it was nice to be with a  fellow Californian--we just think differently than these Southerners.  At the conclusion of my interview, she prayed with me, and informed me that she would be seeking God's guidance on who to hire for the position over the weekend.  As I was leaving, I figured that I probably didn't stand a chance of being hired, especially after seeing the large stack of resumes on her desk of people that she had already interview for the job.  The preschool director promised that she would call me one way or the other on Monday, which is today.

That brings us to today, Monday.  I woke up this morning, wondering what the day would bring forth.  I had already talked with Matt at length about whether or not I should take the job if it was offered to me.  The pay wasn't very high, and it was only an assistant teacher position, not a teacher position.  We discussed that it would probably be best for me to have an assistant position right now, just so I could be under a preschool teacher who had been teaching for a while so that I could learn from her.  We decided that if the job was offered to me that I would say yes.  Well, the hours seemed to tick by today, but no phone call.  After 3:00 I just figured that I didn't get the job.  At 6:00 we sat down to dinner, and I was just telling Matt that I guess someone else got the job.  I was about to tell him that I was fine, because I knew God has something planned for me, when the phone rang.  It was the preschool director, and she offered me the job of assistant preschool teacher.  I told her that I accepted, and that I would meet with her tomorrow at 1:00.  Wow, isn't God amazing!  This school is a very large "Christian School Chain," so they offer really nice benefits to their full-time employees, and I'm really excited to meet the ladies that I will be working with.

Thank you all for praying so diligently for me to find a job.  All of your prayers were very much appreciated.  We serve a Big God who will supply all our needs.