How to Land Your Dream Job

Even though the experts will tell you otherwise, the following steps are guaranteed to land you the job of your dreams. Simply follow these steps and you won't fail:

1. Do a random internet search in your field of practice
2. Begin cold-calling hundreds of agencies
3. Wait a month and a half
4. Receive a call that you apparently missed an interview you didn't know you had & sound responsible enough to convince them to do an emergency interview on the Sunday afternoon of a 3-day weekend.
   
5. Run into the wall on your way walking out of the interview
6. Receive a call in 48 hours with a job offer

**Ok, I guess this just goes to show you that you pretty much have very little control over getting what you want and that it's probably more important to spend your time getting to know the One who gives good gifts.

I'm back

Well, the obvious gap in blog posts is actually directly related to two life circumstances:

1) I started grad school & its zapping all of my writing skills, and
2) I started a new job about a month ago & LOVE it & let it take up my thoughts

School update - I love my classes, but don't like all the work. I wish that reading my textbooks was just for my own personal benefit instead of for midterms and papers. But, grad school rocks because I literally leave my classes on Tuesday nights and put into practice what I've learned on Wednesday morning. I'm not kidding. And I continue to feel VERY confident in my God because He directed me to pursue a Masters in Social Work and I feel like He is drawing out more qualities and passions within me than I knew I had. And though I've never really doubted it, all of this confirms that He really does have a good & purposeful plan for my life.

Job update - Even though I was apparently doing macro-level social work in Costa Rica, I wasn't trained in it & didn't know my Social Work practice theories. This made me feel very confused about pursing a social work job upon returning to the States. I actually was telling people that I didn't want to work in foster care, adoptions, etc....with no one really knowing what social workers do anyway, one person asked me if I'd rather just work with pets than people.
But, then, in my very first MSW class, I learned that there is a term for what I love to do...it's called, Macro-level Social Work...and apparently, there are some people just cut out for this. I'm one of them. And I God dropped a job in my lap that is doing this exact type of work right here in San Juan Capistrano.