I got a job!

I finally got a job! I have been thinking about doing this for a long
time now, and I had to work through a whole bunch of mental
roadblocks (who will watch the kids, what if I get tired, what hours
could I work, what kind of work would I be willing to do, and so on),
and I finally got a job!

I just want to put in a little plug for the Law of Attraction. It
really, really works. I had been spinning my wheels for several weeks
with my job search. I either couldn't find anything that I wanted to
apply for, or I wasn't getting any response to my applications.
Finally, I sat down and wrote a little list of what kind of job I was
looking for. This was my list:

south side
evenings and weekends only
prefer Wednesday, Thursday, Friday nights, occasional weekend
prefer to work 6-midnight
minimum $12 an hour, preferably $15, for about 15-20 hours/week

I had been thinking about delivering newspapers for a while, and I
decided to just go ahead and start. The hours weren't exactly what I
wanted, but the money was reasonable, and at least I could still homeschool.

Less than one hour after I booked my training session with the
newspaper circulation guy, I was called for an interview for a
dispatcher position at a towing company. I went to the interview the
very next morning, and accepted a position the morning after that.
Guess what? All of my criteria were met PRECISELY. The office is on
the south side. The hours are reasonably compatible with what I
wanted. The training rate is $12 per hour, and the regular rate she
pays the experienced dispatchers is $15.

This type of thing has happened to me before. It makes me think that
what I ought to do is ASK FOR MORE!!!! What if I had written down
$15-$20 per hour? Or $20-$25 per hour? What if I had written down
"can work from home"? What are the possibilities?

The key to this, however, is that you are only able to attract what
you believe you can. I don't really believe that I COULD get $25 per
hour for part-time work, so I know it wouldn't have worked. What I
would have to do is work on my beliefs, and increase my faith in what
is possible, and then attract something better.

In the meantime, I am completely thrilled that I attracted exactly
what I was looking for, and I am going to enjoy it to the maximum. I
intend to stay there for one year, and in about 10 months, I going to
take my family to Disneyland!!!