Been A While

The day after my last blog post, I was laid off from my programmer position at Helgeson Enterprises in White Bear Lake, Minnesota.  I had been there for 11 months.  It had been, overall, a decent job, though I wasn't sure if I was going to want to stay there for all that long anyway, though it would have been nice to have another job lined up before leaving.

Thus begun my hunt for a new job.  I have gone nearly three months without finding something, but I'm sure something will work out.  All in God's timing, though I often wish he'd hurry himself up a little bit. :) Anyway, I've had several interviews, including at TCF Bank, Goodwill/Easter Seals, Dunwoody College, and LPS.  I felt pretty good about each of those, but nothing came from it.  TCF did have me back for a second interview, though, so that was good, even if they called me the day after to tell me they were passing.

I've gone nearly three weeks without an interview now, and I admit that I've started to get a little discouraged.  Something will certainly work out, and God is in control, and I usually don't just sit around thinking about it, but I've started to lose a bit of sleep over it, waking up in the middle of the night, wide awake, unable to go back to sleep.  It's silly, really.

At least I get unemployment - only about half of my normal salary, but it's still something.  Also, having all this time off has allowed me to do a bit of work on the house.  I will be (hopefully) posting several posts in the near future, showing some of the work I've done, and talking about the work we still have to do.

Having the time off has also granted me some time to work on writing.  I am currently working on a more detailed outline for The Anarchist Chronicles trilogy, and when I am pleased with that, I will begin writing book one.  Hopefully creating a detailed three-book outline will help the overall story.

I assume I will find another job at some point, though I sometimes wonder if this is God's way of telling me that I need to change things.  Maybe I need to focus more on writing.  I'm very tempted to submit my novel Queen of Men to literary agents very soon, to see if anything comes from that.  But we will see.  Other times, I wonder if this is a good time to go back to school and get my Masters degree, but that would possibly/probably require taking out additional school loans, which I'd prefer not to do.  Ah, who knows what the future holds.