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                                     So you’ve probably heard the                  I remember one time in                       be no light at the end of              my supervisor pulled me
                                     expression that tells you, “bloom             particular, in 2015,                         this tunnel and I felt                 into her office. She said,
                                     where you’re planted.” While the              when I was working for                       completely hopeless that               “We need an assistant for
                                     phrase is based on scripture (1               a staffing agency and                        anything would change.                 our trainer since we have
                                     Corinthians 7:20-24) it still is a            was placed in a job                                                                 a new wave of agents
                                     catchy little quip, but unless                within a call center.                        As I drove home in the rain            coming in to train. We’d
                                     you’re planted somewhere                      As an introvert who                          one night and the water                like you to assist her, if
                                     comfortable, it can feel like a tall          loathes speaking on                          poured down around me, I               you’d like.” She went on to
                                     order.                                        the phone, this was                          found myself sobbing. I                explain that this would get
                                                                                   definitely not an ideal                      started talking to God                 me off the call center floor
                                                                                   job for me. While I was                      through my tears, asking Him           for at least two weeks. I
                                                                                   commended on the                             WHY He wasn’t helping me;              started to ask why, since I
                                     The thing is, there have probably             job I was doing, I left                      why was He not changing                was so new, but she
                                     been times in your life where you             work every night                             my circumstance? I                     reassured me and said I
                                     just wished you could don some                drained and just                             unleashed a barrage of                 was the only person they
                                     ruby slippers and click your heels            ready to drop. I                             cry-questions ranging from             were considering for the
                                     the magic number of times and                 called the staffing                          why did He let my ex leave             job because I had
                                     change your circumstance. Ah,                 agency looking for                           all the way to why would He            excelled since I came into
                                     what a colorful result that could             another job, and even                        not GET ME OUT of this                 training. I accepted,
                                     bring (just ask Dorothy). But life            spoke to my supervisor                       awful job? It was one of my            started training a new
                                     doesn’t always imitate art when it            at the company I was                         most gut-wrenching, no-                crew of agents, and had
                                     comes to being able to change                 placed with, telling her                     holding-back, cries of                 THE best time at work
                                     your state so quickly. So when                I just couldn’t do this                      despair to my Father I’d               during that time..
                                     God puts us in a position that                job anymore.                                 ever had. As my sobs (and
                                     isn’t where we’d prefer to be, what                                                        words) finally ran out, His
                                     are we to do?                                                                              peace washed over me.
                                                                                                                                                                       But that’s not where His
                                     I can think back to many times in             But no matter what I                         I quietly said, “I don’t know          grace and blessings
                                     my life where I was most definitely           tried, there were no                         why I’m in this place, but I           ended in this season.
                                     NOT comfortable. The past 8                   other jobs available                         will trust YOUR plan for me. I         Being in this role at the
                                     years alone felt like I might just            within the staffing                          know You are with me, and I            call center, my name
                                     have been planted in the desert               agency that fit my                           will prosper where You have            started bouncing around
                                     — a surprise divorce, an abrupt               particular skill set. I                      me planted.”                           with supervisors, and I was
                                     end to my education, having to                was not getting                                                                     being interviewed for a
                                     move out of my new house into a               callbacks from jobs I                        I went home and slept for              permanent supervisory role
                                     small apartment, and enduring a               applied for on my                            the first night in many. I got         in that department. Then,
                                     very long season that just felt               own. There seemed to                         up the next morning and                suddenly I got another
                                     hard.                                                                                      went to the call center and

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