Day thirty-six

Tomorrow is my last day at my present job. I find that I have rather mixed feelings about it. While I'm glad that I found a new job and there will be many benefits to it, I still find that there's a part of me that's a little sad to go.

The place where I work is the first job I've ever had. I did have a part-time job working in a pharmacy when I did my training, but it was unpaid and I haven't done any pharmacy work since. I got the job through a former friend of my sister. He was working for his brother-in-law and thy needed someone who could be an unskilled assembler. Not having held a job of any kind at that point, being one year out of high school, I was as unskilled as you could get.

I've actually worked for the company twice. When I was hired the first time in September 2004, I worked full-time for a year, then scaled back my hours to go back to school. Eventually, the economy slowed down and it hit our industry hard, such that I was laid off in January 2008. In that time, I finished college, went to trade school & got my pharmacy license, and in March 2012, I got saved.

Fast forward to late October 2012. At this point, I've been saved for about seven months. I've been foreign in my walk with The Lord, and from that, I've begun cultivating that first real friendships I've had in my life. I got a call from my boss saying that they've heard that I don't have a job (my boss and I go to the same church) and called me back in to help with things. Since then, I've been working in an as-needed basis, so there have been stretches where I haven't worked for weeks at a time. Of course, things are too tight to keep working that way, so the time has come to move on to someplace else.

I'm grateful that my boss was willing to take me back, and I'm thankful to God for using them to meet the needs I've had, and that He found me the new job . I start on Monday.