Thank God for Public Assistance

I thank God that I was blessed with my LINK card. I have enough money to buy food for a long time. I've been working on my budget and that includes my food budget. I wish I can buy a mini freezer because then I can load up on food. I"m gonna look into it. I'm also looking into extreme couponing to help me out with buying household items and staples for the rest of the year. There is a class at the community college for $15 that teaches this practice.

I Need to Ask You a Few More Questions

The Director from the univesity called me yesterday. She left me a message that she needed to ask me a few more questions. She is ready to make her final decisions, but she needed more information from me. Her first questions:

Where do you see yourself over the next 5 years?

I told her that I was working on my 15 year plan. I want to work at an industry for the next 10 years while I work on my Ph.D and then I want to move up. Well, actually I want to move up while I'm working over those 10 years. I also told her that I want to be a college president. Which has been one of my dreams, but I'm not quite sure how much I want to do that. I also want to run my own educational program or be a principal of a small school.

Why do you want to do that?

I told her that I was inspired by the current community college president. I also told her that I would like to be a community college president.

Where do you see the program going?

I told her that I would love to help the students to work with faculty members to do more research and career development.

What area of student development do you see yourself working in?

I told her that I love leadership and career development.

She asked a few other questions, but I don't remember. I believe that the decision is between me and another candidate. I'm gonna be positive, but I haven't heard anything from her today. *Breathe*

Later on I emailed her additional information about how I was inspired by Dr. Jonetta Cole who was the first woman president at an HBCU. I also told her that I was looking at how many women community college presidents there were in Illinoin and there weren't many.

I don't know if this information helped her to understand my goals, but I wanted to make sure she understood me.

I won't be upset if I don't get the job, I'll just have to continue to trust God.

Today I Prayed

I haven't prayed for the job at the university. At first it was because I didn't think I would get it. I mean, I've applied for so many jobs and have even had interviews, but the rejection letters kept coming. Another reason I didn't pray for it was because I was weighing the decision because I really want to work with the non-profit, but I didn't know how I would be able to do that and work a full-time job. Then, I wasn't thinking about the fact that my unemployment was running out. So, for the past few days I've been thinking about my passion and my boss at the non-profit asked me where my hear was concerning the organization. I emailed her and let her know that I still want to work and help build the organization. But, as I was realizing that my unemployment would be running out, I had the revelation that I would need to get a full-time job. So, why not work at the university? I would have time to work on the non-profit work and I would be working in an area that I was passionate about. So, this morning I prayed. I prayed and asked God if He could bless me with the favor to get the job. Today about 2:40 I got a phone call, but because I was working I wasn't able to answer it. I just got off and checked my voice mail. It was the Director from Millikin. She was wanting to know if I had another reference from when I worked at the community college. I quickly called the college and called my good friend there to ask her if she could be a reference for me. She agreed. I then emailed and called the Director back with the information. That excited me because she would not be asking me for another refernce if she didn't want me. Thank God!!! So, we'll see how this goes.

I'm Not Gonna Stress Myself Out

I'm not gonna make myself crazy waiting on them to call me or send me a rejection email. I'm just gonna breathe.

I watched Oprah's love letter on yesterday. I think it was an appropriate ending to her show. I will be starting my temporary data entry job on tomorrow @ 8:30am. It pays $10 an hour and it's full time work. That will keep me afloat for a while. God worked it out for me with the other temp job. They called me to let me know that they will call me to let me know when they need me. So I don't have to come up with an excuse to not open envelops for $8.25 and hour. Now I get to sit at a computer and enter data for $10 and hour. Thank God.

I'm closer to getting my sofa. I have $400 in the bank. I owe $225 on my sofa. But, I also owe my car note for $250. I can still wait until next Friday to pay the rest of my sofa and pay my car note on Tuesday. I think I'll do that.

Almost Here

I made another payment on my new sofa. I have $225 left. They said that it would be in the store in about a week. I'm so happy!! I was gonna stop by the furniture warehouse to see were they are with their prices. I still want the giraffe print chair.

If I really had some money, I would have gotten this sofa. There is something about those colors that I love:

Still waiting patiently for the call.

God Has Smiled on Me

I got a call from Larry (not his real name), my case worker at DHS. He asked me about my unemployment and about me working. I told her that my unemployment will be running out and that I"m working temporarily. He let me know that I don't have to pay the money back that I spent on my Link card. I was so happy because I spent about $300. I was so happy that I wanted to do a dance in the bathroom, but I needed to get back to work, so I did and the rest of the time at work, I spent praising God. This just lets me know that God loves me and I love HIM for being good to me and having mercy and giving me grace when I need it!! THANK YOU JESUS!!!

One of my favorite songs:

Patiently waiting by the phone

I haven't heard anything from my job prospect at the university. All of my references have been check. I do know that they have to do a background check on me. Maybe that's the hold up. I've had several people ask me about it and I'm not gonna worry. I'm learning that God is in control, so I need to allow Him to be in control. When I've decided to make my own decisions, I've found that I screwed up. So, instead of being anxiously waiting, I'm patiently waiting. I was told by the admin asst that the person would not start work until July 1 and that is quite some time away, so I'm gonna to be patient. Does it unnerve me sometimes? Yes, but there is nothing I can do about it, so I talk to myself and tell myself to be patient. God knows. He knows!!! And I am grateful that He has never left me, nor forsaken me.

I got a call from my old job--the one that is responsible for my unemployment. They want me to work for a law firm for the next 2-4 weeks. It pays $10 and hour and it is data entry, which is much better than opening envelopes for $8.25 and hour. Since my unemployment will be running out in the next couple of weeks, I'm gonna take it. If I can work there for the month of June and then get the job at the university, that will be wonderful. Of course if I don't get the job at the university, I won't be mad, but that would be a wonderful plan.