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[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

“In God, my heart shall be exceedingly glad, even if all things should fail me here below.”

– Charles Spurgeon

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[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

i followed God into a new job i hardly wanted, and i've been kind of very unhappy and telling myself i need proof (from the humans at my new job) that i'm supposed to be here, and that i might as well go back to my old job where i was very happy

and genuinely the most unexpected person on the planet caught wind of this little complaint (because i am awful at playing mute when i'm unhappy) and immediately showed up and gave me the best (and, i reiterate, unexpected) pep talk/heart-to-heart i've gotten in years

and now i'm really certain He wants me here and it's going to be okay

[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

corporations really be like

“how can we make this simple process as arduous, inefficient, and nonsensical as possible”

and “this will take six to eight business years”

and “let's let our peons do all the heavy lifting and pay them pennies, while we sit around in meetings accomplishing nothing and go home with eight figures”

and “we sit in front of a computer all day but won't respond to an email in a timely fashion”

and “we're gonna make sure these hard workers feel unappreciated and burnt out” but also “no, those bad workers are unfireable”

and “we speak a politically-correct dialect of english at all times that you have to learn on the job and have to be able to translate on the fly because you can never say what you're actually thinking”

huh

[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

I made my pasta carbonara for the Fire guys! It got their seal of approval.

[coloradocowgirlforchrist]

today was seriously the best day

my work (fire department) tried to institute a new policy for the ambulance crews that would severely disrupt sleep, morale, physical and mental health, and everyone's safety (because i've seen it in practice in the past, and was low-key panicking about it)

so i was asked to write an email about my concerns and it turned into a six-page research paper using Aristotle's four modes of proof (never trust an academic to do anything halfway haha) on crew fatigue and public safety, sent it to the union before the policy was even rolled out, who talked about it that very day

and the policy was scrapped the day after it was published!!!!!

i made sure this also was scrapped for the other agency's ambulance crews (i also work for that agency part-time).

the chiefs listened!!

God really put me in a such a unique position to be brave, speak up, and use having a fire union to advocate for both agencies in a way they couldn't for themselves!!

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