Yet another new chapter begins!

This has been a LONG time coming! A LONG time. 

When I graduated with my master's degree in 2020, I knew that I wasn't going to immediately get a job afterwards, or have one waiting for me. Unfortunately, that's just how the job system works sometimes. I spent countless hours searching, applying, interviewing (just only with a handful of places), and then nothing...nothing...nothing....

I had almost forgotten how lonely and at times discouraging applying for a job really is. There was even a point I had to stop looking at LinkedIn, because, simply put, I'd get jealous (I also think it's turning way too much into Facebook, but that's another story for another time! 😅). Sure, I would cheer for others, and I still do, but a part of me just kept asking, "God...When is it going to be my turn?" 

A few weeks ago, things finally started to turn towards the direction of my turn being NOW. 

My boss came upstairs one morning after meeting with the Deans of our college, and she told me that she had learned something but was hesitant to share it with me: She heard that an opening was coming available in the College, specifically, an advising position. A very long story short, on November 16th I was offered- FINALLY!!!- the advising position I had been looking and praying for after all this time! 

In all this time of praying and waiting on God, one promise I kept holding on to was that He had never not provided me with a job. Never. I just KNEW that, eventually, I would get the advising job I'd been searching for. I just never knew when, and in hindsight now, I could never have imagined the sheer timing of all of this working out as perfectly as it has. Go figure, right??

I interviewed for a different advising position last month, and I was supposed to hear something by the end of that week. I never did. And now, a part of me thinks I wasn't meant to. Again...Go figure, right? God's timing, I tell ya. It's always perfect. Maybe one day I will wake up and realize that! 😝

Although I am beyond excited to start this next chapter of my career doing what I believe God has called me to do, I am sad to be leaving behind the wonderful Biology department and all of the wonderful people that make it up. I've been there for the last four, almost four and a half years. I started that job as a newlywed, excited but anxious to be split between two departments and how all of that would work. Fast forward to today, and I know I have grown and learned so much, and I am eager to learn much more as I start my new role and begin my career as an advisor. 

The wait is finally over! It's now my turn! To God be the glory!