Article January 30, 2012 ISSUE

You're hired!

By Gwen Umbach

This past spring, I decided to apply for a summer job. I went around collecting a total of 12 applications from restaurants, shoe stores, and other random places around my town in New York. My brother, Jeremy, drove me around all over gathering up these applications, taking three hours out of his day for me.

A few days after getting these applications, I had high hopes of finding a job somewhere. My mom took me out to lunch, and we sat there for four hours working on finishing all the applications, and my résumé to go along with them. I had not yet taken any time to pray about the situation, and at that point I did not feel it was necessary. Everything was going well, and I was sure I was going to get a job.