Job Hunting-Day 1

Somehow, over the weekend, I got over the shock of my pink-slip and had one of my more productive days in a while; by Friday, I had gotten past the grief stage and got past the anger stage Sunday. It helped that I didn't have a Monday night class for the first time this semester (not counting King Day) and could take it easy this afternoon.

At church Sunday, we had a missionary from Turkey. During our "dinner on the grounds" after church (gotta love Florida and February picnics) he wanted to recruit us for a pair of jobs in Istanbul; Eileen for a MK school and yours truly for an accounting job for/with a Christian Turkish entrapanuer who runs a chain of Mongolian BBQs in Istanbul. Of course, I had Turkish Mongolian BBQ accounting jobs well up on my list coming into Sunday.

On a less esoteric front, I talked with the guy's 20-something daugher who lives in West Palm Beach. One of the schools on my openings list was Palm Beach Atlantic, a school with a Baptist background, so I asked here about it. Turns out Ladyturk matriculated there and transfered; the school had such secular touches as a yoga class. I'm not interested in Laodicea U; Warner Southern's drifting slowly to the left and I don't want a school that's further along in that drift.

I managed to get off a resume and cover leter to Nyack College, a Christian and Missionary Alliance school on the north side of metro New York. Give the statement of faith a readover-premillenial, inerant scripture, sanctification (no red flags) and a program that has everyone take six theology classes compared to 3 at Warner Southern.

I also looked at Cornerstone University in Grand Rapids; they sponser the Mission Network News that comes on our Christian radio channel shortly after the 5:45AM alarm. Weekend road trip distance (~2.5 hours) to home. Minor problem-their Cornerstone Confession is a cessationist Baptist one-

The more demonstrative or "sign gifts" such as healing, raising the dead and speaking in tongues were essentially given for the authentication of the apostolic generation and are not normative for today.

Not exactly friendly to a Bapticostal.

I've got three more schools on the docket to send off tomorrow. Two evangelical schools need a Statement of Faith, which I'll need to do tomorrow post-chapel. A secular school in Florida is also on the docket; that position is looking for a strong researcher, which could be me but hasn't been me.

[Update 3/2 9AM-Yes, a "pink slip" is Americanese for getting layed off/fired/downsized; somewhere in recent history, they must have given layoff notices on pink pieces of paper]

Comments

[Bene Diction]

I missed something.
Does pink-slipped mean 'let go' 'fired'???

I see in this post you are job-hunting, and if you are going through shock, grief and anger, it appears it's not by choice.

I am sorry.
There is a place for you to teach comfortably somewhere.
I'll be praying.