About a month after I had a new roommate move in I was laid off from my job. Yup, the fortuitousness of this was not lost on me. Right at the time I was going to need more money, I was no longer paying double on my living arrangements the way I had been for 6 months.
So what does a person do when they don't have a job? My brother spent a year doing freelance work and traveling when he was unemployed. I don't have a skillset that can be easily transitioned into freelancing, and I do better emotionally, socially, spiritually, etc. if I have a work/life balance thing going on. So instead of living it up brother style, I immediately started networking on LinkedIn, applying for jobs anywhere close to home, and having epic marathons of all of my favorite TV series and any sappy chick flicks that struck my fancy. I did get some yard work done within the first week of being unemployed, but then my roommate who was motivating me to do those things got a job and I started staying up late and sleeping in because I had nowhere to be the next day, unless I had an interview: which I tried to schedule for the afternoons so that I could keep with my new sleep schedule. It was an awesome month. I had a month worth of vacation that the company I was at had to pay out, so I was set up for at least a month with just that. I did have some savings, but I have been trying not to touch it so that I can continue to build it up to buy a house.
Speaking of mortgages, guess where I now work? It's a company that does online marketing to connect people to mortgage loan rates that the lenders they are connected with can offer. Yup, I'm at the right place if I want to buy a house in the next year. It's just a start-up company, so I get to help build out and refine the processes that will help the company function as it grows.
I wrote this post about 5 months ago and forgot to publish it. The start-up company is reformatting to market for Real Estate agents and help them build up more leads in exchange for sending loan business our way. All in all it's a great plan, it's just getting the database and processes in place to make it profitable. To Be Continued...
Monday, August 26, 2013
Saturday, February 9, 2013
Pregnant Pauses
I have been searching for a new roommate for 6 months. Normally I try and fill the empty room with in 1 to 2 months have after having been notified that someone is moving out, but this time it was harder because I couldn't replace the person that left. Not being able to replace that person and the friendship that was there is a hard thing to think about. I knew I would have to find someone that wasn't going to replace her as that friend, but I also knew that I wasn't finding the right people initially when I was interviewing people to live with us. I took a couple months where I didn't even interview anyone to live with us, but after the holidays I knew it was time for that room to be filled.
I had quite a few people find the room from our old listings on KSL, but not anyone that would fit exactly. There were some "it could work" people, although I had the same kind of people playing back in September and none of them were exactly right either.
On a seemingly unconnected note: I've been having a lot of dreams lately about being pregnant. I knew that it was the Lord trying to tell me something as he sometimes does in my dreams, but I'm not very good at being able to decipher what is being communicated most of the time. Sometimes I dream about children when the Lord knows I know what to he wants me to do and I'm struggling with actually moving forward with the decision. However, these dreams have been a bit different as I was not feeling like there was decision that I should be making , but I started to realize that something was going to change... I just wasn't sure what yet.
I haven't been as close to the Lord lately as I have wanted to be, but this last Sunday I got up to bear my testimony in sacrament meeting for the first time in 5 years by myself without having been asked to speak in church. I used to get up every week with a friend of mine who has special needs and was in my ward 5 years ago. That was during the time that I was dating my ex-fiance, so getting up and bearing my testimony in my mind tied back to that time frame and I have been trying to separate myself from that time of my life for some time (it's easier to forgive if you forget). I never liked getting up and doing it on my own in the first place, so helping my friend bear his testimony made it easier to bear mine. Because I finally got up the courage to get up there and bear my soul without external requirements (a lot of internal promptings), I started having more dreams that the a Lord was trying to tell me something, more often than I have had in a long time.
I had been seeking actively for a solution to help me ensure that I would be able to get a new roommate and fasting and some prayer were added to it this week as well. Luckily for me the Lord was listening and trying to tell me that he was going to be sending someone my way (hence the pregnant dreams). Today I received a call from a girl who was seriously interested in coming to live with us immediately! Tomorrow she moves in and we are ready to begin another chapter in the story of my years at the 1234 house.
I had quite a few people find the room from our old listings on KSL, but not anyone that would fit exactly. There were some "it could work" people, although I had the same kind of people playing back in September and none of them were exactly right either.
On a seemingly unconnected note: I've been having a lot of dreams lately about being pregnant. I knew that it was the Lord trying to tell me something as he sometimes does in my dreams, but I'm not very good at being able to decipher what is being communicated most of the time. Sometimes I dream about children when the Lord knows I know what to he wants me to do and I'm struggling with actually moving forward with the decision. However, these dreams have been a bit different as I was not feeling like there was decision that I should be making , but I started to realize that something was going to change... I just wasn't sure what yet.
I haven't been as close to the Lord lately as I have wanted to be, but this last Sunday I got up to bear my testimony in sacrament meeting for the first time in 5 years by myself without having been asked to speak in church. I used to get up every week with a friend of mine who has special needs and was in my ward 5 years ago. That was during the time that I was dating my ex-fiance, so getting up and bearing my testimony in my mind tied back to that time frame and I have been trying to separate myself from that time of my life for some time (it's easier to forgive if you forget). I never liked getting up and doing it on my own in the first place, so helping my friend bear his testimony made it easier to bear mine. Because I finally got up the courage to get up there and bear my soul without external requirements (a lot of internal promptings), I started having more dreams that the a Lord was trying to tell me something, more often than I have had in a long time.
I had been seeking actively for a solution to help me ensure that I would be able to get a new roommate and fasting and some prayer were added to it this week as well. Luckily for me the Lord was listening and trying to tell me that he was going to be sending someone my way (hence the pregnant dreams). Today I received a call from a girl who was seriously interested in coming to live with us immediately! Tomorrow she moves in and we are ready to begin another chapter in the story of my years at the 1234 house.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
Memories or Memoir-ies
I have been reading a lot of online articles for research for work projects. I sometimes end up reading articles that aren't always related to work and those are the articles that get me thinking. For work I am now kind of actually using my Literature degree in my career: I read and analyze things to write about them for work!
Because of all this thinking, reading and excitement about using my degree in my work, I have been thinking about getting my thoughts and works out there. I have decided a few things need to start happening more often, so here's my list:
Read more novels - and not just fluffy brainless ones.
Write down my poetic thoughts - even if they are fluffy, not everything has to be poignant.
Write my memoirs - the hard moments, the fun moments and the ones in-between.
As I get more of this accomplished I will probably be posting on here more often (hopefully).
This post has been inspired by:
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130109001221-6200057-put-your-brain-on-the-right-diet-in-2013
and
https://medium.com/, https://medium.com/resolutions-2013/ac81cb953b01, https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/17d08be99924, https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/b27f3eab0479 (FYI: I want to write on Medium eventually, if they ever open it up for users to publish)
Because of all this thinking, reading and excitement about using my degree in my work, I have been thinking about getting my thoughts and works out there. I have decided a few things need to start happening more often, so here's my list:
Read more novels - and not just fluffy brainless ones.
Write down my poetic thoughts - even if they are fluffy, not everything has to be poignant.
Write my memoirs - the hard moments, the fun moments and the ones in-between.
As I get more of this accomplished I will probably be posting on here more often (hopefully).
This post has been inspired by:
http://www.linkedin.com/today/post/article/20130109001221-6200057-put-your-brain-on-the-right-diet-in-2013
and
https://medium.com/, https://medium.com/resolutions-2013/ac81cb953b01, https://medium.com/i-m-h-o/17d08be99924, https://medium.com/the-year-of-the-looking-glass/b27f3eab0479 (FYI: I want to write on Medium eventually, if they ever open it up for users to publish)
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