Leap of Faith

God is so great!  Today, I got out of bed knowing it was going to be my last day at BP.  It wasn’t the easiest decision to leave but it was absolutely necessary.  The situation with my job continued to spiral downward so Jeff and I began to discuss taking a leap of faith. I began to pray, or beg God to be honest, specifically about opportunities outside of BP.  After 9 years, I was quite comfortable there however with the hiring freeze, I knew there wouldn’t be opportunities for me anytime soon.  During this time, there were many nights I would come home crying or fall asleep crying simply because everything we all worked for was being taken from us and everything we poured our hearts into was being forced to conform into a process that doesn’t work.  We had 9 coordinators leave since our transition to this new group just 6 months ago and this group refused to back fill their positions so the work just continued to pile on the remaining team members.  I was being forced to do 2-3 peoples full time jobs in 40 hours a week with no mistakes and everything done in a timely fashion.   This is seriously impossible.  During this same time, Kiarra put in a prayer request for me at church. 

Within days of that prayer request, I received 3 calls about opportunities, 1 with BP and 2 with other companies. I was so overwhelming, in a good way.  One of them was from a lady I worked with 10+ years ago at Waste Management.  The following week I interviewed for that position, later in the week I received an email from them to do a back ground check and personality tests and then the following week they offered me the position. This, my friends, is what I call God Speed!  I couldn’t wait to give my 2 week notice!!  I thought about waiting until we got back from Destin but I knew that would prolong my time to be stuck with those crazies so I went ahead and gave my notice that day, 2 weeks ago today. Although I was excited to give my notice, it wasn’t necessarily easy.  I look around and see people that I’ve worked with for 9 years, people I hired, people I remember getting married and having their first child.  These people I consider my friends, my family.  There were many weeks that I spent more time with them than with my own family so although I was eager to get out of the situation I was in, it wasn’t the easiest decision.  Knowing all the other coordinators are super busy and don’t have the capacity to now take on my work load, it hurt my heart a bit knowing they will have to take on all my responsibilities.  At some point, I have to walk away and say “it’s no longer my problem”, I’m not there yet…

After taking a few weeks off, I’ll begin my new job as a Learning Systems Specialist with an offshore drilling company.  I will continue to be in a Learning Organization but will be working on the systems side of it rather than the logistics and coordinating side.  I will be traveling internationally a great deal which I’m quite excited about as well.  I’ve been working contract for the past 3 years and although it has its advantages, I have to say that I’m super excited to have paid holidays, vacation days and be a salaried employee again.  Some of the additional perks of this job are just amazing, almost too good to be true.  I’m very excited for this new journey.

It’s really amazing to see how one prayer request can come full circle.  From the day Kiarra wrote that request to the day I was offered the job was only 32 days.  I’ll say it again, God Speed.  When you pray and He says move, you better be ready to act upon it.

And yes, Aunt Loretta – I will still be home for Christmas!  I have pre-approved days off.