Job Search

So this summer (when I wasn't recovering from surgery or desperately trying to figure out my current health insurance situation) I've been looking for a new job.  I left a job at the end of the school year feeling confident that it was not the place for me to go back to in the fall.  I still feel that way.  But September is here and I have yet to find a new job.

Due to the fact that I felt and still feel that God's desire for me was to have a different job, one that does not suck out all of my energy, I don't see my current situation as a "take any job you can get to pay the bills" kind of thing.  I have faith that because I left my old job that an even better one is waiting for me.

Throughout the entire summer I have dreaded going back to work.  Each job I have come across has produced the same feeling... 'well I guess that could work' but still felt like it would be a place I went to make money and would look forward each day to the time I would get to leave.

This week I came across a job.  A job that I feel like I was made for.  All the dread and anxiety about drudging through life doing something just to get by vanished and I became excited about the prospect of going to this place every day.  A job that combines my degree with another area of my life that I have experience and knowledge in.  I spent an entire day dreaming about what it would be like to work at this place and how I would feel being there, serving people each day.

This job has a lot of unanswered questions.  The main one... how much would I be working?  It's currently listed as a per diem position (2 words that can instill a sense of fear and anxiety in anyone looking for a job.)  That leads to the next big issue... benefits.  My current health benefits situation is not good, I would love a job that will fix that.

Today I applied for this job.  I'm waiting now to see what happens next.  If you're the praying type I would like to ask you to pray for this situation.  If God does not want me here a simple thing will happen.  I won't get it.  But the opposite is a little more tricky.  If I do get offered this job, what do I do?  It could be not enough money, not enough hours, not enough benefits, the list continues.  I'm trying to not look too far ahead and just stay in the present.  The current path I'm on has a light for the next step which was apply.  After that I have no idea what comes.  Prayer would be appreciated.