What God Has For Me

Yall know how it goes...
I've been jobless since the first week of November. I've been interning, yes. But cash flow? No. The plan was to intern during the day and work part-time at night...well, how many of us know things rarely go the way we plan?
Twice I missed calls from jobs at the mall. Once I got a job, but it just didn't look like it would be profitable. I shot myself in the foot with that one. Another job was for a man with a tiny ass restaurant/bar, but wanted you to jump thru hoops like "I Want to Work for Diddy." My job at home was trying to help me transfer to a store down here...but everyone involved was on sum bs, as in, they weren't "sure about the transfer process." The manager at the store down here has been telling me to call every single day to "check on the status." My interview was like 3 weeks ago. Another interview was successful, but the interviewer told me to call back on Monday and speak to suchandsuch. Such and such was supposed to interview me in the first place...but she didn't show up. Apparently, she's never there when I call or come by, and she's also far too busy to call back. And so forth and so on.

Well, I'd just about determined that online applications were a time-consuming game of odds that I was just about done with. But then I went to apply at TJ Maxx, and wound up walking in the store next door afterward. The nice young lady at the door said they were hiring for holiday help and beyond, and they were looking thru the apps rite now, but I had to go to ulta.com and search for store XXX and apply. I went home and did it, just for shoots and giggles. And....would you believe it? Some1 called me back literally an hour later. My interview was today at 11 a.m.
I get up, get dressed, about to head out the door early because it was POURING rain today, when all of a sudden, long story short-I was asked to watch the baby until his mom returned in a few minutes. Raise your hand if you know, it wasn't a few minutes, lol. I wound up getting to the interview 10 minutes late, with a toddler in tow. The manager was already in the midst of a group interview, so me and the kid hung out for an hour until she was done. PRAISE the LORD GOD, she happened to be the most understanding person in America. And at 3 p.m., she called me and told me to come back Sunday to fill out my new hire paperwork!

But wait...there's more! A few minutes later, one of those mall jobs that I had previously missed out on in early November called me again. And she asked me to come to an interview tomorrow morning! Granted, it's not a Fortune 500 company, but if I can be late to an interview and have a baby with me and still get the job, it's enough of a small miracle to keep me holding on and looking up!

A friend of mine said he could feel that I would get sumthing this week. He coulda been joking. But that was Monday, and here it is Friday, and I go from nothing to something in one day!