Twice that I can think of, I have quit a decent job for a higher paying job, and both times it has bitten my butt. Both times I jot laid off within 9 months of accepting the new, higher paying job.
Now here I plan on doing it again.
I'm currently working a 6 month contract, but it's a contract that could be extended indefinitely. I could still be working here in 5 or 10 years, if I don't quit. The pay is ok, and I have benefits. There is virtually no chance that I would be hired on as an "FTE", though. This job is only half an hour drive away from where I live.
I just accepted another contract, this one is a 1 year contract. I'll be making about 8 dollars an hour more than what I make now, but I won't have benefits, and there is no chance of the contract extending... But there is a chance that I could be hired on as an FTE. The job is about 1 1/2 hour from where I live (half hour drive plus a little over an hour on light rail).
I am kinda sick to my stomach. I hate giving up this job. Good people, easy work. But I'm going into an environment I know and thrive in. I hate giving up the benefits, but the extra money will help me get some bills paid off, and since my wife won't work, this is like another salary. I hate the extra time in travel, but there is an up side to that, too. Since the last time I rode light rail to work, I haven't gotten much reading at all done.
So prayer... Please just pray that this move is God pleasing. That God sustain my family and I, and keep us healthy and whole until we have insurance. That this turns into full time employment. That I may trust Him more than in my employment and insurance situation.
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Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy on me, a sinner.
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"No matter how "right" you may be on various points, you must be diplomatic also. The first and important thing is not "rightness" at all, but Christian love and harmony. Most "crazy converts" have been "right" in the criticisms that led to their downfall; but they were lacking in Christian love and charity and so went off the deep end, needlessly alienating people around them and finally finding themselves all alone in their rightness and self-righteousness. Don't you follow them!..."
-Father Seraphim (Rose)
"Personal opinions have no role in ministry of any kind. When we represent the Church, then we ought only say and do what the Church has asked us to do. All else is wasted energy and an opportunity for sin. It is when we lapse into personal opinions, even when we dress them in the language of the Church, that conflict will arise."
- His Grace, Bp. JOSPEH
We were just in an accident (the other guy's fault) and our car was totaled. Thank God we were not hurt! His insurance is supposed to pay, but this is Russia, and they are notorious for not paying. We don't have a car and so my family and others who depend on us are up a creek. If any of you can remember us in your prayers, it would be greatly appreciated!
__________________ "Eh? Two views? There are a dozen views about everything until you know the answer. Then there's never more than one."
Bill "The Blizzard" Hingest - That Hideous Strength by C.S. Lewis
1: My family. I am the only Orthodox member of my family.
2: My life, that I make good decision on how I do my job and how I use my money.
3: My heart, that I am granted genuine repentance and mourning for my sins
4: For my spiritual and physical health.
5: That I would develop a relationship with the Panagia, John the Baptist, King Josiah (my patron Saint), and the rest of the Saints. (I was delivered from Calvanism).
prayers for you Proto, Rus and Josiah... please if anyone remembers to pray also for my Father in law as he faces serious health issues...Thank you.
Philothei
__________________ No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the
afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them
beyond their strength and are crushed by them. This is because
they will not humble their souls and commit themselves to the will
of God. But the Lord Himself guides with His grace those who are
given over to God's will, and they bear all things with fortitude
for the sake of God Whom they have so loved and with Whom they are
glorified for ever. It is impossible to escape tribulation in this
world but the man who is giver over to the will of God bears
tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord,
and so his tribulations pass.
My situation is a bit complicated and fraught with gossip. So I don't want to go into great detail.
Please pray for me: I was attending a Greek parish and was very happy there, until some odd things happened and some things were said about someone else whom I love and respect. Please pray that all hearts will be healed.
For now, I am going to another parish (OCA) and it's great...but I do not like the idea of "church hopping" and I wonder if I am doing the right thing. I think it's best on the one hand for now, till things settle down and tempers cool, till real "talk" can happen. Please pray for me?
Thank you...God bless you.
R.
From the way you sought to be honorable in your request it seems that you are diligently seeking God. I pray His peace will be with you. I sympathize - I know the particular pain of personalities disrupting the community of faith...
Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy, Lord have mercy...
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Adorned in the blood of Thy Martyrs,
Throughout all the world as in purple and fine linen,
Thy Church through them doth cry unto Thee, O Christ God,
Send down Thy compassion upon Thy people,
Grant peace to Thy habitation and great mercy to our souls.
Please pray for me as I try to find my way back to the Orthodox Church. I fell away a few years ago while a catechumen, but feel Christ calling me back.
Prayers for you Rindicella, and Jeff M. Please also pray for me as I am going into surgery in a couple of weeks.. I'd rather not offer any details here. Thanks
Lord have mercy on us all.
__________________ No one on this earth can avoid affliction; and although the
afflictions which the Lord sends are not great men imagine them
beyond their strength and are crushed by them. This is because
they will not humble their souls and commit themselves to the will
of God. But the Lord Himself guides with His grace those who are
given over to God's will, and they bear all things with fortitude
for the sake of God Whom they have so loved and with Whom they are
glorified for ever. It is impossible to escape tribulation in this
world but the man who is giver over to the will of God bears
tribulation easily, seeing it but putting his trust in the Lord,
and so his tribulations pass.
If any of you can remember us in your prayers, it would be greatly appreciated! 
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