Month: April 2018
I have been very busy, but in a good way.
Last week I talked about prepping for a couple job applications which I am hoping will lead to a full time teaching position. Not teaching theology, but something that will be satisfying and make teaching theology part-time a sustainable enterprise. With a bit of back and forth between me and a friend, I think I have put my best foot forward. So now I wait (I’m also waiting on another application that I sent out months back, so much waiting.)
I am chasing down a job lead this week, doing my research and trying to put my best foot forward. It is very time consuming. I’ve only been working part-time since I graduated which is not a sustainable arrangement. So I’m excited at each prospect that opens up, but I also find myself wrestling with the angst of stepping out in this direction of faith. See back when the tech bubble burst (2000) I was fairly burned out, in tech you must continually re-invent yourself and I was facing one of those moments where the role I had moved into was changing very fast. I completed 13 different certifications from 2000 to 2001 and I was looking at a raft more if I wanted to keep going in that direction. I did like the challenge of continually re-inventing myself for most of my IT career but the role I was doing meant lots of travel and we were finally settled enough to start a family. It seemed like the perfect time to shift gears, even just for a bit, to get some theological education, a dream of mine from my early years in ministry.
