Matthew's New Job

Matthew has been searching for a new job for the last several years, passively for a while, but increasingly more active as the years progressed. In the last few months he has had more interviews than the last few years combined. We have fasted and prayed about a new job so many times we knew that when the time was right it would happen and not a moment sooner.

Well last week, while he was travelling for work he had three interviews for a job in Tualatin. He had his first interview last Tuesday and said that I wasn't allowed to continually ask him if he heard back from the company, that he would tell me as soon as they did. A few hours later they asked him to talk with someone else the next day. True to his word, I knew almost as soon as he did.

He proceeded to have another interview Wednesday, Thursday, and because he was travelling on Friday, another one on Monday. He loved everyone he met and felt really optimistic about the company and his prospects for getting an offer.

Today, he came home from another business trip (his last one to Long Beach, CA) and received the awaited job offer from Powin Energy. It's not really more money, though it's not really less either. What it is is an opportunity to work in a really exiting industry, doing something he finds interesting, with greater chances to advance without having to move to New Jersey or really anywhere at all.

P.S. He told his boss this morning (Friday) and the conversation was a lot more difficult than he anticipated though I'm not surprised. He has worked with this boss since he started 6.5 years ago. He likes him. He respects him, and if there were more room for growth at Covanta, no doubt he probably would have stayed. 

We went to the temple tonight and both of us felt so peaceful about this new job. I asked Matthew if the last few years of hard have been worth it or just hard. He said he thought they'd been worth it though he's still not sure he can articulate why. 

I'm grateful that he has learned to trust in God and learned to have more confidence in himself. I'm grateful he feels Heavenly Father's love, not only now, but in the past, when he wasn't so sure. He can now look back and recognize God's love all along the way. What a beautiful evening.

So now Matthew has two weeks until he gets to be done with this taxing chapter of his life that brought us to Oregon (for which we are so grateful), that allowed us to reach lofty financial goals, that triggered some mental health issues, and allowed him flexibility to be at home with me. We are grateful for everything Covanta meant to us but we are so excited for a new chapter to begin.