My Stint with Chili’s

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 (: