Continuing on yesterday's topic of not writing about work, I've decided to institute a temporary moratorium on writing about anything work-related. It's such an easy and obvious topic about which to write that I've come to use it as a bit of an excuse not to come up with something else. Lately, it seems like something really out of the ordinary had to happen for me to write about anything but work.
A second reason: I never wanted this blog to be boring to read. I had said early on (or at least, I think I've said) that I didn't want to write anything I wouldn't want to read. So much of this blog's content has had a uniform sameness in continually talking about my work, which isn't very interesting, to be honest.
I'm not going to sit here and say that everything I write from now on will be great. A lot of what I've written already isn't that great when I look at it. There's no editor but me, and I try to catch and fix spelling errors, or rework sentences that don't make sense grammatically. In fact, that last sentence was partially rewritten just because it didn't make sense on reading it.
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Update: Everything up to this point was written during lunch, from 6:00 to 6:30 pm. Well, things have changed in the last two hours. Now, I'm going to have to break my promise not to write about work. God's timing, I suppose.
After lunch ended, my manager took me aside and told me that he wanted me to consider moving into a new position. I would be helping to ship, process received items like bindery items, handling freight shipping, and deal with the managers. In essence, I would be dealing what my manager does, and I would be assisting him, since he pretty much does it himself. Since it's presently all on his shoulders, he works twelves hours a day at least. He admits that I would be moving into a stressful position if I take the offer. It sounds like I would be making more money, but I'll have to talk to management about it.
My boss is giving me a few days to think it over, but the truth is that I don't really want the job. I don't like the job I already have, and it's already stressful enough. If I've already had a day where I faced the enormous temptation to walk out and not come back, I don't want to know what the new job is going to be like.
I honestly don't know what I'm going to do. I've had a little time to think about it, and I've already got some people praying for me. Pray that God will give me some wisdom about the choice I need to make. I can think of reasons to take the job and I can think of reasons not to take it.
Thomas, I say this with kind thoughts for you not to be critical; hoping things improve for you. It's hard sometimes to find satisfaction or contentment at work and we have all had our sinful days of discontent. But what you have here is what many men have had. A less than satisfying job but make no mistake, you have a job, and a boss who trusts you apparently. The biggest problem you are having is one we all struggle with, your eyes are on yourself. The Bible says to be content because God puts us where He wants us to be. So there is a purpose of God in working there. I read an article once by a man named Doug Wendel regarding his unhappy work environment. This is part of what he said following his being saved. " I asked God to take away my sinful, self-centered desires and replace them with His desires for me. The next morning when I awoke, I still lived among unhappy neighbors and worked at the same desk job. My outward circumstances hadn't changed a bit, but over the weeks and months that followed, my inner attitudes changed. My job became a place to learn endurance, to share my new faith in Christ, and to glorify God. I began to see my neighbors as lost people wo needed to hear the life giving mesaage of the gospel. God answered my cry for inner change and gave my life meaning and purpose by transforming my self centered attitudes into God centered ones." I'm sorry truly this job is not a good fit for you, but prove yourself to God and wait on Him. Look for the blessing that comes from living for Christ, He loves and knows what you need. If you don't want to take the new position, don't, but pray over it first and ask God what would best please Him. God bless you Thomas.
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