Yesterday was a ridiculously sucessfuly day. This may seem petty to you who are reading this, however I think it’s worth writting about.
actually, I’m just bored and passing time at work. It’s probably not worth your reading efforts.
I took a 27 minute lunch break yesterday. And in those 27 minutes I proceeded to go to the mall, try on 2 pairs of jeans and a shirt, then bought one of those two pairs of jeans and the shirt, went to startbucks where I ordered an Iced Grande Tripple Mocha (for Thom in Accounting, haha) and a Tall 2 pump no-water Chai and drove back to the office. 27 minutes. That is pretty fast if you ask me. I pride myself in that kindof speed.
So I still havn’t heard from the new job yet. I am going to call them today and put a little bug in their ear. It’s busy in the cycling world right now so I don’t expect to be first priority at said company. I am however ready—really, really ready to get out of my current job.
As some of you may know I am a worship leader at my local church. Here is the catch tho; I’m not an official leader. I was in the “try out” stage where the pastors and elders of the church watch me and decide if I have what it takes to be an official worship leader. That stage, the watching stage is supposed to last 4 months, at least for me. Stu, the worship and community life pastor at my church called me yesterday and sat my down in his office after I was done working. He went to his white board and said to me “if you could have your ideal worship team, who would make it up?” So I told him. He then told me, “You and Judah will be leading worship full time for the summer. You will be leading every other weekend. You’ve been given the go-ahead to be a full time wordhip leader in the church.” Uhm, sweet? It hasn’t been 4 months. It’s only been like 1.5 or 2 months. I am really, really excited. But even more than that it is just really good. That good feeling of spending months at the feet of Jesus becoming who you are supposed to be, and then stepping into your destiny. It’s just really good.
I applied to school yesterday. We’ll see how that goes down….. lots of waiting to hear back from sent out applications in my life right now.
see, yesterday was a sucess. PLUS! I did my laundry.
I am tired. Like, really tired. The alarm went off at 6:10am… however my clock is 15 minutes fast so it was really 5:55am. I turned the alarm off. The second alarm went off at 6:30… slash 6:15. I turned that one off. I rolled out of bed at what the clock said was 6:45.
aka, 6:30.
Boo. Back to the full time job. Back to the normal everyday life I lead. No more sleeping in untill 10 am. No more laying on the couch for ten days straight. I like to think that I am at a 94% rate of well-being. The mono isn’t completely gone. I am still tired a lot. I can sometimes feel my heart working really hard. It’s strange. I might take a nap on my lunch break.
I hope I find out about that new job I applied for soon. That would be sweet action.
For the past few months things have been shifting in my life. Shifts are good. They are a sign of our evolution as a people. See, a little under a year ago I started a job here at the Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS® and was perfectly fine with it. I enjoyed my job and was eager to learn new things here. I got hired as a receptionist because what I really wanted to do was be able to pay the bills and do something linear (i.e., take phone calls, make copies, sort mail—those sorts of things). I was also at the time learning what it is to be okay with just soaking up all that God has for me. So having this job and not being in a leadership position at City Hill Fellowship fit. I was okay with just—being.
In my spiritual life I was slowly being moved into a leadership position. After a period of 8 or so months I was finally ready to start stepping into my destiny—being first and foremost a worshipper of the living God and also learning what it is to become a worship leader for a church congregation. Things started to shift. Over the course of 8 or 9 months of working at the association I started doing work for the Marketing & Communications department. I found out what I want to do with my life in terms of a career and suddenly MARCOM was talking about a possible position in their deptarment, full time. I was ridiculously excited because I desired to move up in the company. It felt like another shift in my life. One friday my boss, the two MARCOM folks and the president and CEO of the company decided to have some closed door chats about me and my moving to MARCOM.
I got the shaft.
They encouraged me to go back to school (which I don’t think is wrong in the least) however pretty much said “you don’t have a degree in Marketing so you can’t work in that department.” I was heart broken. My heart was set on that promotion. I wanted so badly to be doing what I loved to do—working in MARCOM and I was pretty much told that unless I go to school I won’t ever be put into that department. The shift I thought was going to happen didn’t. And I suddenly wanted to be out of this place. The lack of promotion has in fact fueled me to want to go back to school to get a Graphic Design degree with an emphasis on Pagelayout and Typography and plans are to do that in the fall. But everyday more and more I feel like I am getting pulled into other departments that I don’t want to be in here. I am getting stuck doing what I don’t want to do. Sometimes it even feels like punishment. I don’t want to be stuck here.
Today I am feeling lead by the spirit to start looking for a new job. I know exactly where I want to work, I know they are hiring and I feel like the time has come to start that process. Tonight when I get home I will fill out the application, send that with my resume to said job and… wait. I am feeling really led by God in this decision, and I have already talked to my parents about it and they agree that it might be time to move on.
I think the time has come.
Ty-pog-ra-phy
The art of type design, modefying type glyphs and arranging type.
I have found my calling.
So I sat down with my parents last night to talk about what I am going to do with the next few years of my life. Actually, I sat my parents down and told them what I am doing. It’s has been a toss up between worship school and tech school. My mother says “Why can’t you do both?”
She makes a very valid point.
I will be applying to a tech school (dunwoody, hennepin tech maybe…) for their graphic design program. I want to specialize in page layout and typography. I really considered the worship school thing again, but I feel like the only time I want to go to worship school is when I want to run away from this state—or things that have happened in this state—or people who live in this state—and that’s not usually a good thing. So I will go to tech school. And I will take guitar lessons. I will learn music theory. I will be raised up as a worship leader in Minnesota. I won’t be leaving anytime soon.
I’m okay with that.
ROCK OUT?
oh, and go look at this link and look at pages 8,9 and 15. Those maps got published today in print (they look better in print.) I made them. the RREAR is here, and it’s a good one. (maybe not exciting for you but when you spend a 12 hour day making 3 really intense real estate related maps that are unlike anything the association you work for has done, well—it’s kindof a big deal.)
It’s interesting to watch real estate professionals. My initial impression of people in the real estate business is that they are very self centered, money driven people. Not all of them, however I think a majority of them are. There is a broker support meeting here today at my association and it is interesting to watch the dynamic between all the brokers. It makes me think of MORC and how the people on the board interact with one-another. Everyone is really—cool with one-another. They are all friendly, almost like they spend a lot of time together outside of work. And maybe they do. It’s interesting because I forget that a lot of these people are passionate about what they are doing for a living, just like I am passionate about cycling.
I got my facebook blocked at work. It was retaliation against supposed downloading I did on my freshly re-built PC in the office. Funny thing is, I didn’t download anything; at least not intentionally. Funny how IT guys think they run the world. I was really upset about it yesterday because I felt like my integrity as an employee here was getting messed with. Like I wasn’t able to be trusted with a computer and certain privileges; they didn’t believe me when I said I didn’t download anything. I do this thing when I drive; it was birthed out of me wishing my car was a 5-speed. I put my right hand on the shifter. Sometimes as I drive and I’m listening to some really good music I hit the shifter with my hand along to the beat. I bet you are thinking, “What the heck does this have to do with the IT guys in your office?” Well, I was so pissed off after I left work yesterday that I blasted Rage Against the Machine (because clearly the man had gotten me down) and pounded that shifter till my hand was numb. Any harder and I think I could’ve broken bones in my hand. It was ridiculous. I then got home from work and stomped around the house for a bit. Anything to get my anger out. I’m kind of a stress baker, so then I baked a batch of chocolate chip cookies. Ha. Those cookies however are dual purpose; stress driven and made for “certain people”. It was an interesting night. But I chilled out after a while. I am however going to talk to my boss about it today because if I don’t the IT guys will think I actually downloaded that crap onto my computer. 
Allow me to rock fist this one….
