One of our big challenges up here is finding Thomas a job that will support us while he goes to school. Since we've decided that I will be staying home with Baby once she comes, we've been exploring options for how to work things out financially.
Today Thomas is working at a temporary job (just this week). I'm not exactly sure what it is he is doing at this temporary job. Something to do with carpets and cleaning and pipes...something...? I just know he heard about it from his friend Dave Kinder yesterday and that it will pay him. Hooray! Which gives me time to do things like... update this blog. :)
Thomas also has found a very good part-time job up here! Probably the best he will find, too. He had been talking with the lady who currently is an agent working at this agency, but she is purchasing it in September and starting it out on her own so she really needs help. Thomas is a really great person for her to have working for her, because he's helped agencies get set up before, and he is pretty much just amazing and she realizes that. Anyway, we didn't think that she would want to hire him for several reasons- one big one being that he was going to be going to school and wouldn't be able to give her as much time as she might have liked. However, once we got up here and he did an interview with her, she made it clear that she REALLY would LOVE Thomas to work for her, even if it is part time for only a few months. So he accepted, and he starts his new job in September! I guess that's in like... a week...
Thomas has also been looking into getting another part-time job at a restaurant here in town. He really REALLY wants to wait tables. I know- it's not something most people would jump up and down screaming about, but he really wants to do it. He thinks it would be way fun. Anyway, so he's given his resume to several places here in town and he is just waiting to hear from them. They tend to wait to do hiring until more students come up for the semester, and they get tons of resumes so we don't know if anything for sure will come of it. There is one in particular he really liked the look and feel of- it's called Amici's and it's this Italian place and they have all their waiters dress up like mafia gangster men, with the suspenders and hat and all. I think he'd be great at it. ;D
Another exciting bit of news is that Thomas also had an interview with the man at BYU-I that is in charge of seminary student teachers. He talked with him about where Thomas is at in his schooling/classwork and what openings they have and so forth. Anyway, to the point- Bro. Seadall wants Thomas to do a week of student teaching in the middle of September (hey, isn't that the same time as... oh yeah... BABY COMING!) so that he can see Thomas teaching live, and then in November he will be able to do part-time student teaching (20 hours a week) and get paid for it! You gotta know the church is true when they pay their seminary student teachers. I never got paid for student teaching! ;) We are so excited about it!
As for me, my job right now is taking it easy. I plan to do lots of sitting-type activities, like updating blogs and so forth. :)
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