Ain’t Life Grand

I’ve moved back to Miri.

Ain’t life funny?

After three months of somewhat half-heartedly job searching and repeatedly editing my fresh grad resume, I finally found a job.

I actually came back to Miri for a week of holiday since Kuching wasn’t very good to me mentally and physically.

I missed my friends and family like crazy. I missed waking up and not feeling like the worst failure on earth. Every week that passed with me as another jobless statistic was driving me up the wall and chipping my confidence off inch by inch.

And then, THAT happened. The decision that changed my whole life.

Right after that weekend, I bought an air ticket and came back home. My first kolok mee home almost drove me to tears. I was that homesick.

One night that week, I went to a young adults meeting. My prayer point that night was to get a job.

Mind you, this was after three months of non-stop self-bashing for not being able to secure a proper occupation.

I was so miserable and I could not really tell anyone how I felt because first I would have to explain, why oh why did I have to be so choosy. I was basically rejecting every suggestion people threw at me. And secondly, I just couldn’t bear it when every time someone asked me what I was doing then, I would have to lie through my teeth and said something along the lines of “Deciding what to do with my life”. I just really didn’t have a job and that was it.

Suddenly I was doubting myself. Whether four years of tertiary education really taught me anything and what if I am the worst employee anyone has ever hired… shit like that.

Anyway as I was saying, my prayer point that night was to get a job. So my brothers and sisters prayed for me.

The day after, my former lecturer called me up and asked me for an interview. My best friend had recommended me.

I went for the interview at 4.30pm. Without my resume, without my certifications. Every paperwork that I had been trying to meticulously perfect over the last three months was not needed.

I finished the interview at 5.30pm.

I got the congratulatory call at 6.30pm.

Isn’t God just fabulous?

So I moved back to Miri. So yes I basically drove to Kuching with 9 dogs in the car all for nothing.

Isn’t God fierce?

You’re probably wondering what I am working as. I won’t tell you because that’s another curveball life threw at me. It has nothing to do with my fresh degree.

HAHA.
As of now, I’m living in a house with three other women. One divorced, one single but rumoured to be extremely bad-tempered and one lesbian. They’re all too hot to be true.

And my new room is smaller than my ass.

Still.

Father, thank you.

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Published:
3.29.08 / 9pm
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