My Sentimental Resume

Counting papers just now led me to thinking about the various skills I've picked up from my many jobs.
What started the thought process is the fact that I have a myriad of paper counting abilities that I learned from the printers wife who was my last boss.
I've been secretly storing these abilities in my back pocket, hoping that one day I'll find myself in a paper counting emergency with a group of people I'd like to impress. When that day comes I'll say WAIT if you do this *wisk, bam, boom* you'll know that you have 1, 503 sheets of paper.
The crowd will watch in a stunned silence and everyone drop to their knees and cry out in praise.
In my days of counting paper, it's amazing how often I've envisioned that.
For real.

I thought that it would be neat to go down my job history and think back to all the things I've picked up at each one. I don't mean to bore. You can do the same, start your own blog, and write about yourself as much as you want. Until then, read on:

Target: This was the greatest first job EVER. And from it I learned a lot. Being a customer service person for most of it, I learned a lot about pleasing people and just what it feels like to get a package of sheets thrown at your head. I learned a lot about retail, and how important it is to have good relationships with everyone you work with. And I definitely realized how important it is to be patient with the person explaining company policy-they didn't come up with the idea, they're just paid minimum wage to get it across to you.

Law Offices of Christopher J. Hurst: He was a real estate lawyer and in this job as the front desk person I learned a lot about proper office decorum. I also learned that when someone says they'll "work with your school schedule" that holds true till about August when school actually starts. Moving on...

MediaPro: This was the beginning of my trek in the world of telemarketing. It's an ugly, nasty world. This place was cool though. I didn't learn anything professionally, but I did learn that you can make such an impact on people by just being you. It's so important to be a light wherever you go, and leaving there showed me that I made more of a difference then I ever thought possible.

Dyrex: Oo and speaking of the ugly, nasty world of telemarketing...this place was the nastiest of them all. Here I learned that God has everything under control, no matter how much of a Jackass your boss may be. It's good to be reminded that we don't rely on bosses, and this job did just that.

NuImage: this is where the paper counting skills were learned and honed. This was a great job, and I can't even begin to sum up everything I learned there (it would take a whole other blog). I'm really, truly appreciative of it.

My current job has taught me a lot (make me your date at the next Quickbooks party and I can hob nob with the best of them). As did the little filler jobs I had along the way (HomeGoods, UNF bookstore, Accountant for a landscaping company). It's neat to look back at my job quilt, if you will, and see all the different patterns that make up the blanket of my..life..what?! How cheesy is that?!

Anyway, it is neat to take a look back at where you've come from at least in the job market and see how each little experience added some kind of ingredient to who you are today (food reference!! :)

Ps. Listening to John Mayer makes me want to be a songwriter.

The Best Job Ever

I want to have a quick conversation with you about an infinite subject. Not so much a conversation as it will be a monologue, but feel free to let it marinate in your mind and add your own spices as you do.

This scripture is the basis for this discussion...

"For in the Gospel, a righteousness that God ascribes is revealed, both springing from faith and leading to faith [disclosed through the way of faith that arouses to more faith]. As it is written The man who through faith is just and upright shall live by faith." -Romans 1:17

This is a proverbial piece of word steak. I read it, re-read it, re-read it again, wrote it on my chalkboard, read it, read it outloud and repeated that process until I realized that the best way to go about digestion is to talk it out. So let me be your proverbial (there's an addiction to the word "proverbial"-I realize that) mother and cut the steak for you...

Bite 1: So in the Word, God "ascribes" a righteousness--Ascribe: attribute to a person--that springs from simply having faith.

Bite 2: If we are a Christian then we automatically have faith-faith that God is God, faith that He sent His Son to die for our sins, and so on and so forth. Therefore if we have faith it leads to more faith and as a bonus package "a righteousness that God ascribes is revealed."

Now, let me introduce a new flavor....
Romans 15:13
"May the God of your hope so fill you with all joy and peace in believing (through the experience of your faith) that by the power of the Holy Spirit you may abound and be overflowing bubbling over with hope."

Let's get this straight. Having faith:
1. Pleases God- and really we could stop there because that's reason alone.
2. Ascribes to us a special righteousness
3. Arouses MORE faith
4. Fills us (according to Romans 15:13) with all joy and peace
5. Causes us to overflow, bubble over with hope

That is so inspiring. Why wouldn't you want to have faith if it produces all of that?!
Each reason above BY ITSELF would be reason enough to have faith, yet we get the added benefit of all of them. BEST INFO-MERCIAL EVER right there.

In fact, I was just thinking that if selling faith was a job, it would be the best sales job ever, but isn't that what we're called to do?*

*Dramatic ending!!!

Taking the No out of Snow

Snow should really be called "Syesw"
I don't know how to pronounce that, but I do know that in a minute I'm going to go outside gather up some of the heavenly white stuff and make Snow Cream!!
Found a recipe on foodnetwork and it pretty much involves vanilla extract, milk and Syesw!

I love snow and yesterday when I was on my way home from work (more of a slide then a drive) I stopped to get gas and purposely smiled big at every one around cause I think it's important that people get excited about the best natural phenomenon EVER.

My puppy is excited about it and he played in it with me last night. It was a magical evening of me throwing snow clumps and him chasing after them and ending up with them all over his little puppy face.
That's all I got, just a big blurb of snow loving, this blog is.
Happy Snow Day!!!