In the 80s, I started working for a global credit card company in North Carolina while I was in college. I worked for this company for 7 years until they decided to offshore their work. It was during the time when revolving credit cards were becoming extremely popular and the company, I worked for didn’t have a revolving account. In the 90s when this company was closing in my area, I used to watch a TV show that had four women living in New York City, it just happened to be that this company had its main headquarters located in New York.
I thought I could live the life of this TV Show and become a 90s type of girl in New York. All I could think about was living in New York. It consumed my every waking thought. I just knew I was meant to live and what was happening with this company opened my destiny. I applied for jobs in New York with the same company and I received an offer. The gentleman that interviewed me told me that it was an entry level job, and I will probably struggle to pay the rent in New York. He told me to give it some thought and to get back with him.
Of course, I didn’t have to give it too much thought because I was pursuing my dreams. Shortly after this offer was made in New York, I received another offer from a company located in Virginia Beach. It was odd because I wasn’t impressed with moving to the beach because I can’t swim. Also, I was offered a one-time interview with the company in Virginia because I had completed a resume for a friend. When he applied for the job, they asked who wrote his resume. He told them my name and then they called me for an interview. So, I had two offers and the company in Virginia counter offered the offer in New York.
I called the hiring manager in New York and tried to see if I could get him to offer a salary higher than the one in Virginia. I was trying everything to get to New York and it didn’t work out. So, I ended up taking the offer with the company in Virginia and moved there. As years went by, I found out that the position in New York that I was offered would have been in the World Trade Center and my cubicle would have been close to the top of the building. The World Trade Center in New York no longer exists due to the horrific terrorist attack on America. A day and a time we will never forget.
All my pushing and trying to make things happen on my own time was a message of how you can’t make things happen on your own. God orders your steps and makes provisions on His own time. My selfish thought process back then allowed me to realize that I didn’t see it all until I truly saw it all relying on God to provide all direction.
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