I Think the Time Has Come.

For the past few months things have been shifting in my life. Shifts are good. They are a sign of our evolution as a people. See, a little under a year ago I started a job here at the Minneapolis Area Association of REALTORS® and was perfectly fine with it. I enjoyed my job and was eager to learn new things here. I got hired as a receptionist because what I really wanted to do was be able to pay the bills and do something linear (i.e., take phone calls, make copies, sort mail—those sorts of things). I was also at the time learning what it is to be okay with just soaking up all that God has for me. So having this job and not being in a leadership position at City Hill Fellowship fit. I was okay with just—being.

In my spiritual life I was slowly being moved into a leadership position. After a period of 8 or so months I was finally ready to start stepping into my destiny—being first and foremost a worshipper of the living God and also learning what it is to become a worship leader for a church congregation. Things started to shift. Over the course of 8 or 9 months of working at the association I started doing work for the Marketing & Communications department. I found out what I want to do with my life in terms of a career and suddenly MARCOM was talking about a possible position in their deptarment, full time. I was ridiculously excited because I desired to move up in the company. It felt like another shift in my life. One friday my boss, the two MARCOM folks and the president and CEO of the company decided to have some closed door chats about me and my moving to MARCOM.

I got the shaft.

They encouraged me to go back to school (which I don't think is wrong in the least) however pretty much said "you don't have a degree in Marketing so you can't work in that department." I was heart broken. My heart was set on that promotion. I wanted so badly to be doing what I loved to do—working in MARCOM and I was pretty much told that unless I go to school I won't ever be put into that department. The shift I thought was going to happen didn't. And I suddenly wanted to be out of this place. The lack of promotion has in fact fueled me to want to go back to school to get a Graphic Design degree with an emphasis on Pagelayout and Typography and plans are to do that in the fall. But everyday more and more I feel like I am getting pulled into other departments that I don't want to be in here. I am getting stuck doing what I don't want to do. Sometimes it even feels like punishment. I don't want to be stuck here.

Today I am feeling lead by the spirit to start looking for a new job. I know exactly where I want to work, I know they are hiring and I feel like the time has come to start that process. Tonight when I get home I will fill out the application, send that with my resume to said job and... wait. I am feeling really led by God in this decision, and I have already talked to my parents about it and they agree that it might be time to move on.

I think the time has come.