Dream Job

This past Friday, I had a job interview in Royersford, PA which is about 1h15 from Newark, DE and about 1.5h from home. I've been struggling with job interviews mainly because I've had the hardest time imagining myself as a career woman. Sometimes I'm so burnt out from school that I wanted to take a year off just to sleep and recover. Looking towards the future has been almost impossible from this burn-out and in reality, I have no idea what God wants me to do for a career but I do know that I want to love the Earth and want to protect it (instead of harm it like most engineering companies do) and that I want to love people.

I also do not want to move more than 3 hours away from home which greatly limits my career since most chemical plants are in the Gulf Coast or Mid-West and most environmental jobs are on the West Coast. That is a personal decision which I have constantly been trying to figure out if it was a God-directed decision or a selfish-decision. I think it is a God-decision but it took me a long time and a lot of turmoil to figure that out.

This job opening is my dream job. I'd be looking at manufacturing processes and products that companies want to be 'green' or 'sustainable' and show them how to make them better for the environment while they can still be affordable. Basically, if I could describe what I want to do, that's what I really want to do.

The people who interviewed me were awesome. And really nice. And very excited about my background. And the people who work there wear flannel and go biking and seem amazing. They told me that the next step is that they'd invite me for 3 days (while paying me for those days) to learn and work and do a 'trial-run' and then if I did fine (which I'm assuming I will unless if something major comes up), then I will get the job (: which is very exciting and encouraging but now my mind is off figuring out car situations and housing and budgets and how to make new friends and keep old friends. I'm quite bewildered actually.

For over a year, I kept crying to God to open up doors/windows and show me where He wants me to go and what He wants me to do. Whether or not this job actually comes through (pray it does please, kthx) is another story but it does feel nice that after waiting not-so-patiently God has encouraged me and given me hope. As over-used as Jeremiah 29:11 is, it really is true.

My next fear though is: When I move, how will I ward off all of those local creepers?