follow up on being prepared....

just one small story as a follow up to the "prepared" post.

kyle has a friend who works in Human Resources (he is a "head hiring guy) at the church office building.
they have mostly had a "hiring freeze" for a while now.
but one day a few weeks ago, they posted a job for a PART TIME custodian.

the posting hit the computer at night when friend "R" was leaving work, by the NEXT morning when he returned, there were over 300 postings for that job. (PART TIME JANITOR! 300 postings!)

there were resumes from attorneys, doctors, accountants, businessmen, etc. etc.

there were people with degrees coming out the ying yang, there were people with as much (or more) education as one could wish for.

they were people desperate to find work, to support their loved ones.

this is what kyle is competing with. this is how it is out there.

kyle has had one interview for a "mediocre" job so far (pay cut, not really what he "WANTS" to do...but a job nonetheless!)

the interviewer told him he had been narrowed from OVER 200 applicants for the position.


he somehow made the cut to the "TOP TEN" for an interview.


he did not get the job, but again...this is what is going on out there for the unemployed.


i am not writing this to be depressing, because we are HONESTLY not depressed (stressed, worried, BUT HOPEFUL still most days!).

i am writing this so that you may again THINK about my question:

HOW PREPARED ARE YOU?


POST EDIT: i also want to add, i am not trying to be a fear monger (is that one word or two? LOL) but i just wanted to type out some of my very own personal thoughts on this subject. and since it is *MY* blog, i can do whatever i want! right?

i think if we ARE prepared, then when/if something like this should happen (or a death, divorce, illness or one of the many other things that can change our life in an instant) we will be less fearful. not WITHOUT fear, but LESS fearful in how we have to deal with whatever comes our way.

i might add that we were *NOT* prepared in all of the areas NEARLY as well as we should have been.


and for THAT reason, it has made me pause and reconsider so many things about my very own life. and i (personally) think that to take inventory of ones own life, and make the necessary changes, is NEVER a bad thing. i am grateful in many ways for the lessons that this "life experience" is teaching me. (don't get me wrong--i wish it would end, oh! like YESTERDAY!) but if we can choose to learn, and it IS a choice, how we respond to challenges, i think when all is said and done we come out (for the most part) in better shape.

the end.

(grace says i must quit posting "depressing things" so i will show some photo's of our weekend in a future post!)