So much has gone on since my last entry…. I will try to give the cliff-notes version… Well I only have two weeks until my first triathlon ever. The Olympic distance is most defiantly going to be a challenge. Some days I have trouble running just three miles after a long bike or swim. I have to keep reminding myself that I can run and walk the last leg or the race.
These last few weeks I have been praying long and hard that God would direct me into my career. I know that the offer from Grant Thornton is still on the table come September. This offer is contingent upon me finishing the accounting program this summer at Santa Clara. With my four jobs and trying to figure out how to pay for it sometimes I just put my hands in the air and said God what the heck do you want me to do? Most of my workweeks I put in about 60-80 hour weeks and how am I going to finish school while doing this? About a week ago I was working in the kitchen at the Salvation Army and one of the kids only put a single bag in one of the trash cans. I proceeded to pull the bag out of the can and lode it on the gator 4x4 and take it out to the dumpster. I drove out to the dumpster and pulled the bag off the tailgate to hoist it into the dumpster and the bag burst all over me. I was drenched with Potato Leek soup and bacon grease. I wanted to cuss so dang bad. I just grumbled back to the kitchen dripping and had a conversation with God saying why the heck am I here? I have a college degree and I am chucking soup and grease bags. At this point I realized that I had to do whatever I could to jump into my career. I had pressed on some doors and the only door that was opened was the accounting.
Some people think accounting and they think about how boring it is going to be. I think about the talents that God has engifted me with and that I can help people in their weakness. What a great thing. Plus it is one of my life goals to get a CPA. Another interesting thing is that if you look through the classified adds in the job section there are always going to be two jobs people are always looking for Accountants and Nurses. Match Set Point.
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4 comments:
Yeah..I think a swear word was definitely called for at that point.
The cool thing about you is that God will use you wherever and whatever tasks you may be doing at the moment...adding numbers or throwing out nasty leftovers.
But I know the feeling of just wanting to be at the point where you are looking back at all of this instead of still in the middle of figuring it all out.
Hang in there buddy! I sure wish I would have become an accountant!
Okay so...I randomly came across your blog and it nice to see that you are writing all this stuff out and hey that I get a chance to comment on it, even if you don't want me to.
Well personally I like Potato Leek soup and if it fell all over you, why didn't you eat it. No really...do you think that is someone else was there with you and that happened to you that you would have been upset? Or do you think you would have laughed your butt off because when does potato leek soup ever spill on you? What I am trying to say is (and maybe I don't know at all) that the Lord wants to surround you with people and friends at this time and to continue to help support you with your life. Your life being working, school, triathalons, etc.
I know all the school and working can get you down. But at this time of the hecticness (is that a word?) you are trying to achieve something...something that most people don't. And that is hard, I think completing something that you started is one of the hardest things there is...for some reason there is this desire to start things but to complete then is another drive.
Dave and I love you Nick and we will put you in our prayers...we all need prayer you know. For instance, pray that Seattle gets some sun. I am vitamin D deficient and I have not been in the ocean for at least 4 weeks.
Love you and maybe I should start a blog of some type...how do you do it?
-Dani
I'm gonna stop checking your blog if you don't update it soon.
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