EMPLOYED!!

I stepped into our bedroom after taking a shower. Dom was talking on the phone, and I heard a woman’s voice on the other end, “And make sure to bring your bank account number, so we can set up direct deposit for your paycheck.”

Paycheck?! To have a paycheck you have to have a job…He got a JOB!!!!!!! I was jumping up and down in my towel, silently screaming, so the woman wouldn’t hear and freak out, and wonder why she was hiring a guy who lived with strange screaming people.

He hung up the phone with a startled look. “I got the job,” he said.

I let out my screams and danced because I couldn’t hold in my excitement anymore. After two and a half years of applying, not hearing back, interviewing, not getting the job, being depressed, searching again, and waiting, the search for a job in his field was over.

There were hugs with our roomie, and high-fives, and all day we kept saying to each other, “You got the job!” “I got the job!” “You got the job!”

The job: he will be working at Data Foundry in Austin as a data center technical representative. It is an entry-level, full-time with benefits and advancement opportunities.

It’s also a night shift. Four days on, three days off, four days off, three days on. It’s going to be an adjustment, but if we can handle 2.5 years of job searching, we can handle anything.

So on Monday we both start our jobs. Oh yeah! My job! I’m starting a part-time internship at Fahrenheit Marketing doing content development. I get to write, he gets to do IT work. We are both happy.

Of course, life is not perfect now that Dom has a job, but it’s a new chapter of our journey.

Our years of waiting for work for Dom were not wasted. They were full of living life to the fullest—as seen below. During those years we saw that God is good. All the time—because it’s his nature. Not just when we get what we were hoping for,

but all the time.

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