I love my job. And I didn't know I would say that right out of college. Heck, a little over a month ago, I had no idea what I would even be doing! People normally say it takes a while to get to your dream job. I don't really know what my dream job is, but working at Acumen comes awfully dang close.
I work on the Creative Content team, so we are in charge of all of the content on the various websites at this e-commerce company. My job ranges from doing product descriptions to writing promotional e-mails to researching and writing for wiki articles on the various websites. We currently have five websites that are live and functional, and starting June 1 I think we will be adding new sites every fifteen days or so. Sound crazy fast? It is, but that's the way this company works. Check out this blog for another really cool thing about my company: we have robots. They are called KIVA but I like to say it like Wall-E says Eva's name. They are orange and smart and pretty amazing.
The rain has been never-ending here for the past month. I don't know what the deal is, but we have only had a couple of sunny days in May and spent the rest hoarding close parking spaces, pulling rain jackets tighter, and wishing we had umbrellas. (Well, maybe that should be "wishing I had an umbrella" because for some reason I still have not bought one.) I almost feel like I am back in Juneau, since it rained there all last summer. Except in Juneau it was just a light drizzle. Here, it pours. Our basement has flooded a few times, school was closed early one day due to flooding, and there have been numerous tornado threats. Fayetteville has been blessed and safe, but Oklahoma and Missouri have not fared the same. It's amazing to look at pictures and realize that devastation is only a couple of hours away from here.
Before graduation, a lot of people told me that the transition from college to real-world is tough. I tried to prepare myself for it, but no one ever really elaborated on it to me. I thought maybe it was working a full day - but that hasn't been hard for me. What I discovered was hard was not transitioning at the same pace as all of my other friends. I was miserable the first couple weeks, not at work, but when I got home. I was jealous of my friends taking trips and being lazy and doing whatever they wanted, whereas I had to go to bed early, be gone all day, then get home at night and not necessarily want to have big plans. Honestly, I threw a pity party. I knew my job was great, and I have been so thankful for it from day one, but I wished that they all had grown-up jobs. The Lord has really worked in my heart to help me to approach my situation in life with joy and to not envy them. His timing is perfect in each of our lives, so I shouldn't question it or think I can ever make life "fair."
And, as I started getting more comfortable at work, that became more fun, too. I thrive on relationships with people, so it took a little while to get those started, but I am so thankful for the people I work with, and I can't wait to continue to get to know them better and spend time with them.
My New Heights community group has been a huge blessing, too. I love our times together, and it is so encouraging to be around these people who have known me for only four or five months, yet they love me and want to pray for me. And we always eat really good food, so that's a plus, too :)
My prayer is that my life will be "worthy of the Gospel of Christ" (Philippians 1:27), and that changes my attitude about being "left out." About the rain. And about how I want to approach any and everything that comes my way.
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