I got the job!!!

I am the new Employment Counselor at Resource, Inc.!!!!!! :) My first REAL full-time job!!! Which means...responsibility has fully arrived. Fun and scary all at the same time. I move Friday (to THE cutest little place!!!) and start my new job on the 29th...AHHH! Can't wait to start this new journey...but I am scared out of my mind!

Just over a year ago I moved to New Brighton and started a journey called Seminary. It was an exciting move full of new transitions and changes. I had my own place and was going down a path in life just for me. Little did I know how challenging and growing that "just for me" path would be. It didn't take long for me to realize that Bethel was not actually where I wanted to be and I started to question how I even got here...what lead me to this decision? The first quarter of school was really rough...overwhelmed with working too much and taking too many classes and not allowing myself enough time to process it all. Second quarter was better. My faith had really been challenged in Hermeneutics the previous quarter, but at least I had been able to adjust my schedule (fewer classes) so that life wasn't so overbooked all of the time. I had begun to come to terms with the fact that Bethel was where I was supposed to be. And that maybe I even was supposed to become a therapist! Third and fourth quarters I was still excited about all that I was learning and how it was all growing me in my own understanding of myself and just as a person. But then summer came...In all its sunshine and blue skies, full of relaxing days at the beach, processing life, and oh yes, did I mention volunteering? I have been volunteering with the church at which I previously worked. The volunteering was supposed to help me start trying out some play therapy and get a feel for if I could really like play therapy as a career. I thought for sure I would. While I'm not exactly trained in play therapy, and just kind of make it up as I go (with doing my own research and reading of course), I have realized that I just don't think play therapy is my thing. I love kids. But as a future mommy wanna be. I think that's it and I need to stop trying to make it more. So as I came to realize that play therapy might not actually be my niche, I started looking for some other volunteer things that, honestly, didn't really float my boat either....bummer. And then I came across a job. A full-time job which I thought I would very much like. And next thing I knew, I was applying not only to that job but to 2 other jobs where my good friend from college works. Within a matter of days, 3 to be exact (I applied on Saturday and got a call on Monday), I had an interview all set up!! And I soooo want this job!! While I don't know if I am exactly convinced that I 100% for sure do not want to be a therapist, I do feel like the Bethel season of my life may be coming to a close...at least for now? Maybe someday I'll go back (if I leave that is), maybe I won't. It's been good while it lasted. I am really keeping my fingers crossed and praying that I get the Employment Counselor Position or even the Mental Health Employment Counselor Position. Either one I think would be a great fit for me! And I want it sooo bad! And if I do get the position, then maybe grad school next year to become a school guidance counselor? I don't know. We will see! First things first. I gotta get this job!!! :) However....getting this job would mean leaving the 2 little people who have been my life for the past nearly 2 years....that will be hard. I don't even want to think about it.

"For everything there is a season, a time for every activity under heaven" ~Ecclesiastes 3:1