Power Surge

At the end of 2007, I started dating a very special man.  He was kind, gentle, loving and told it like it was.  Which is what I really needed at the time.  We had so much in common but the only problem was that he lived 250 miles away.  No, we didn't meet online (not that anything is wrong with that) we had known each other through our workplaces for a lot of years.  What started out as a friendship, blossomed into the love that we share today.

After my daughter completed high school in 2012 and was on her merry way to college, I began to transition myself from being a single mom to being a married woman.  I had to move to another state, quit my job, put my house up for sale, leave my daughter and my sister behind, not to mention my independence.  I had a great job, although I did hate it and was stressed more times than not, it provided me with a car and free gas.  Looking back I think that was the only string holding me to that job for 4 years.  So needless to say, when I moved to begin my new life with my new husband, I had failed to find a job and I had no car.

Luckily, my husband had another vehicle so we had that going for us but still no job.  Now, keep in mind that I had been aggressively looking for a job since July 2012.  Knowing how wonderful of an employee that I am; hard-working, smart, dependable, reliable and humble, I just knew that I would have a job before I ever moved.  Well that wasn't the case and it ate at me everyday.

I had been on several 2nd, 3rd and even 4th interviews in some cases just knowing that I was going to get that job.  Only to be disappointed and not given the job.  Needless to say, it put a lot of strain on my husband and myself in these first 3 weeks of living together as husband and wife.

Finally, one day I received a call from the staffing agency that I had been applying through and they had an interview for me.  It was about 8:15am when they called me and the interview was going to be at 1:00pm.  I had plenty of time to get ready so that I could knock their socks off.  And by getting ready I meant showering, blow drying my hair, curling it so that it looked professional and make-up that would pop my hazel eyes.  Who could resist me huh?  As I sat on the couch that morning drinking my coffee, I began getting more and more frustrated and depressed that I hadn't found a job yet.  What was wrong with me?  Why hadn't I finished college?  Am I not as great of an employee as I think I am?  All that self doubt just pounding away at my brain, making me feel worse than I already did.

When I got out of the shower that morning and was wiping away the steam off of the mirror, I remember thinking to myself....I'm wiping away this steam and all this self-doubt is going with it.  As I stared at myself in the mirror I decided that there wasn't going to be a blow dry session today.  I was going to put my hair up in a bun.  There was only going to be natural looking make-up today and maybe just a hint of lip gloss.  I was even going to wear my glasses (which I think makes me look old).  As I continued to get ready a sense of calm came over me and I actually started to feel joy.  As I took one last look I said out loud "Don't sweat this interview!  Someone will see you for the real prize that you are."

I arrived at my interview more calm than I think I had been for the past 6 months.  I sat down with a wonderful gentleman and we began discussing the job and it's requirements.  I answered the standard questions and then something miraculous happened.  He set his pen down and said me "Describe your value or belief system."  Dumbfounded, I just began having diarrhea of the mouth.  I talked about my faith and where it came from in my life.  I talked about experiences I had as a child with losing a sibling to cancer.  I talked about what I didn't like about past jobs and bosses.  But mostly, I was amazed at how I shared my love for the Lord.  Any other setting I would not have been able to do that.  A ginormous X would have been placed over my resume and application.  But here, in this tiny little office of 5 people, I could be myself and somebody saw me for the prize that I am.

I got the job;)