Michelle likes money.
She likes where it will take her – ballgames…concerts…Nashville, Tennessee…her favorite restaurants.
She likes what it will buy her – CDs…tickets to movies, concerts, ballgames, Reds activities…food…coffee…new clothes and shoes.
She likes what it can do for her. (Don’t we all?)
Even though she usually has money left at the end of the month, she feels like she needs more. So she figured out a way to get more money. Land a job.
So several weeks ago, Michelle started her job search. She went online and signed up at several agencies that matched up employees and employers. Then she started getting email promotions targeting her for specific jobs. Only problem was, everything was automated, so the computer sending her job information didn’t know it was filling up the inbox of a mentally handicapped adult.
In fact, it didn’t know anything. She’d get a response that read something like this, “Michelle, we’ve reviewed your qualifications and found a job that would be perfect for you. Burger King in Hamilton is looking for a closer.”
She’d ask me, “Mom, what’s a closer?”
I explained it to her and told her why that wasn’t a perfect job for her.
Michelle put in a job application at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. Then she followed up with one phone call after another. The hiring manager wasn’t there yet. Call back later…The manager was out today. Call back tomorrow…The manager hadn’t reviewed applications yet. Call back in a couple days…The manager was home sick with COVID. Call back in a couple weeks. (No joke. That’s what they told her.)
That did it. Michelle didn’t call them again, and they never called her.
Now, Michelle was persistent. While attempting to reach the hiring manager at Bed, Bath, and Beyond, she was busy putting in other applications and setting up job interviews.
She landed an interview with Wendy’s in Hamilton. The interview lasted 90 seconds. The manager asked her two quick questions and said, “If we decide to hire you, we’ll call.” Michelle was disappointed, but undeterred. She left the restaurant and said, “I don’t think I want to work there anyway.”
It didn’t matter, she already had another job interview scheduled – one for Taco Bell in Hamilton. That one didn’t work out for the same reason Michelle couldn’t work at Burger King. Due to construction, their dining room was closed, so the manager was only looking for a closer. But she kept Michelle’s contact information and said she’d call once their dining room re-opened to see if she was still looking for a job.
Then Michelle lined up a job interview at the Taco Bell five minutes from our house. But the manager was a no-show.
Finally, Michelle got a call from another woman who said she was owner of a Taco Bell restaurant and set up an interview for Michelle, but when Michelle arrived, she discovered that no one was expecting her. Regardless, the assistant manager inter-viewed her anyway and hired her.
Only her job went nowhere. She had on-boarding tasks to complete the hiring process, but she didn’t have access to them. After two weeks of constant phone calls to Taco Bell, they finally put it on the website. Michelle got it all done in two days. Then she called Taco Bell to let them know. The manager said he ordered her uniform and it would be in within a couple of days. That was weeks ago, and that was also where the hiring process stopped.
I explained to Michelle that God has the perfect job for her, and she would do well to wait on His timing. I told her, “If you let God help you find your job, He will give you a job you will absolutely love and you will be very successful there.”
So although Michelle wanted to land a job last month and be working by now, raking in the dough, she is trying to be patient and wait for the Lord to open the door for the right job for her at the right time.