Last spring I knew I would move to Mexico, but I didn't know exactly when and was considering the possibility of moving even a year or two after graduating. Seeming logical to keep several options open, I put in some time and effort working on my resume and brought it to a job fair to get new connections. Over the summer while I was on my annual trip to Mexico, God basically told me that He wanted me to move to Mexico right after graduating and not wait. I gave up the idea of getting a cool job in Computer Science, the field I'm studying at Portland State, and had every intention of keeping my job at McDonald's. (I worked there for 4 years because they worked around school, church, and Mexico trips. I didn't think any other job would have.)
While I was still in Mexico one of my instructors from that winter term sent me an email offering me a job at school as a research assistant. It payed better than flipping burgers, and it ended sometime around winter 2013, right when I was planning to move to Mexico! I couldn't believe it! Between my return to the States and the interview for the new position at school, John Lee called me asking if I would work on the website for Branches Church. After the initial changes and setup, I'd work up to 10 hours a month and I could take the job with me to Mexico. Haha! So I had two interviews in one day, and I got both jobs. Then a few weeks later I was simply working in the office when the same instructor came and proposed an idea. Her TA (teaching assistant) that she had lined up was stuck in China for all of the fall term and she needed a replacement TA. Since she was also the one supervising my boss, a graduate student working on his PhD, the arrangement worked out quite well with half of the part-time work as a research assistant and the other half as a TA.
The craziest part of the whole thing is that neither parties asked for my resume. I had spent all that time working on it, but when I gave my career to God, He dumped three jobs in my lap that fit exactly perfectly with my plans to move to Mexico after graduating. I'm a TA again this term, and that job by definition ends at the end of the term. The research position is scheduled to end right when I graduate as well. The work on my church's website will continue but I can work on that part-part-part time from Mexico.
God has provided.
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