Many of you may know that I took a job at Chili’s Grill and
Bar the beginning of May, and I was super excited about it. I never really had much experience with the
food service industry so I was looking forward to getting some new skills under
my belt. I felt very confident this job would be a great fit for me, I love
working with people and I think I am a pretty talented multitasker. Training alone took two weeks but after that
I was a server. I must add that I admire
all those in the food service industry, they have multitasking down to a
science. I felt so overwhelmed my first
night by myself, but all of my coworkers were incredibly helpful and got me
through it (: . But every day I still
dreaded going into work, and I mean dreaded.
The anxiety would start to build and I would start daydreaming of
excuses I could use to get out of work (Of course I never did use them because
I would have felt so incredibly guilty my stomach would have eaten
itself). I also had these crazy recurring
dreams about Chilis, I’m talking 4 or more a week. I dreamt that I mixed up orders or came in
wearing the wrong clothing. I began to
wonder maybe this job wasn’t for me.
I decided that before I resigned, I needed to have another
job lined up, so I set up a profile on Care.com, but none of the jobs would fit
my existing schedule. It just so
happened that last week Connie posted a tutoring job outside her office and I
just thought “this is it, this is my sign, my indication to go to another job”. So blah blah blah, Thursday came and I turned
in my letter of resignation to Chilis, and what a peace I felt!! It was an incredible feeling, although that
feeling quickly faded when I called and discovered that there was no need for a
tutor anymore because the family had decided to go with a different
organization.
Well, nuts.
Now what was I supposed to do?
Oh me of little faith.
Moments later, I get an email on my phone, it’s from
Care.com! Mrs. K. has found me and asked me to call her; she was interested in
hiring me to watch her two little girls. HALLELUIA! So I met with the K family on Friday and we
really hit it off! I am beyond excited
that this opportunity came about, it is going to be such great practice and
will keep me on my toes. Now, even though
I no longer work at Chilis, I am still so grateful for the opportunities I had
there. I met so many wonderful people and learned so much. But I am even more grateful that this job
came at a time in my life when I didn’t need its income to survive. I already had the Admission office job and
really, that would have been enough to get me through the summer if I hadn’t
found the nanny job. I really don’t give
God enough credit, but I’m working hard to change that. I heard on the radio the other day that
events that seem to happen just in the nick of time are right on schedule for
Him. They aren’t early nor late, they
happen exactly when He planned, so from now on I plan to worry less and trust
more, because timing is everything (:
