This could be the one!!!

I am waiting to hear if I passed my logic and personality tests that I took last week for a company called Consolidated Electrical Distributers (CED)as an Accounts Receivable Clerk.

They have said several times that they are "Very interested" in me and yesterday after my second interview, they sent me out for a drug test.

I was even able to negotiate an hourly wage of over $13.00, as I actually was offered a "Temp to Hire" job yesterday as well with HER Realty Corporate HQ in downtown Columbus as an Accounts Payable Clerk. They would have had me working as a temp for 90 days @ $13.00/hr and if they liked me they would have started me at $15.50/hr

I told CED about their offer, and asked them if they had any "Wiggle room" in my hourly rate of $13.00 to start, and told them that all things being equal, I'd rather work for them than the other job offer, as it is closer to home and I'd have to pay nothing for parking. He indicated that he could indeed make me a better counter offer, so now I just have to hope I passed the two tests and I could start as early as Tuesday!!!

I am SURE wanting my unemployed days to END!!!!!

The saddness and pain of losing my last job has really effected me more than I could have ever imagined, and I feel like I will never be happy again...I hope that is just the depression talking...and that I will indeed have hope and happiness again!!

My family has been a real support group for me, and I will always remember their efforts on my behalf with a great feeling of appreciation and gratitude!!

My wife has supported me and believed in me through all of this ordeal, and I have learned the powerful lesson of unconditional love...it is very...very...humbling!!

Thanks for reading.

When will it end?

I have a few things in the fire as far as a job go....an interview with an electrical supply company on Monday, as an Accounts Receivable Clerk, but all MY experience is in accounts PAYABLE!!!

I get tested for AR and a personality test as well, I just hope I pass the tests...THEN...if I do...I have another interview...and I have no idea what the job even pays....I'd sure hate to do ALL this...and then they say it pays $8.00 an hour...I CAN'T live on THAT!!!!!

The fact is...I DON'T need a paycheck...I need a job!!!!

I cashed in my retirement, and will be paying the house off, and we have enough in a supplemental retirement account to live about a year...yeah...I know...I'll have NO retirement left...but hey...maybe I'll get lucky and die young????

So..I need a job...NOT a paycheck (Well....at least for a year anyway)!!!!

I know that God has a plan for my life, but God makes NO promise to keep people out of the valley...just to be WITH them as they are there. Christians throughout the years have suffered...and I've no reason to think that I will just be handed ANYTHING!! So...I can't help but be worried that I may have to do a physicaly demanding job...and I have a bad knee and back, so I can't do that kind of job!

I am an office worker...built for a cubicle!!

That is all anyone would want to read about me....but...if you are a praying person...please remember us in prayer!

Thanks!

Would YOU hire this man???

I NEED a job!!!!!

Summary of Qualifications:

· Demonstrates excellence in deadline-driven environments
· Proficient in risk assessment and resolution strategy
· Energetic communicator and team-builder
· Experience in problem solving for internal and external customers
· Skilled in Microsoft Excel, Word, Access, Intuit QuickBooks and OBM CAS Workflow

Experience:

September 1988 - October 2006 Ohio Department of Public Safety Columbus, Ohio
Accountant/Examiner 3

· Coordinated and conducted the Internal Accounting Control Program testing and certification process by identifying potential risk areas, defining key controls and testing to ensure adherence to Generally Accepted Accounting Principles to safeguard funds, property, and other assets and resources.

· Conducted audits of ledgers, purchase orders, payments and payroll

· Performed monthly bank account reconciliation

· Reconciled invoices to purchase orders, receiving documentation, and contracts and generated payment

· Assigned coding to purchase orders for goods and services

· Consolidated multiple expenditures into monthly invoice to bill for goods and services

· Reviewed and drafted contract addenda

· Maintained fund reports to track and project costs

· Generated annual fund allotments for multiple funds

· Processed State Payment Card transactions

· Maintained Capital Project funding usage reports and generated encumbering documents

· Processed Electronic Data Interchange payments


November 1985 - May 1987 Cuyahoga County Hospital System Cleveland, Ohio
Supervisor, Outpatient Services

· Responsible for the efficient operation of twenty seven outpatient clinics

· Supervised and evaluated the performance of fifteen medical receptionists

· Planned and coordinated systems to ensure patient satisfaction

When does the saddness end?

I wish I could really smile again!

Do it anyway!!

You can spend your whole life building Something from nothing One storm can come and blow it away

Build it anyway

You can chase a dream that seems so out of reach and you know it might not ever come your way,

Dream it anyway

Chorus

God is great, but sometimes life ain’t good, and when I pray..it don’t always turn out like I think it should…but I do it anyway, I do it anyway

Verse 2

This world’s gone crazy and it’s hard to believe that tomorrow will be better than today,

Believe it anyway

You can love someone with all your heart, for all the right reasons, and in a moment they can choose to walk away,

Love ‘em anyway

Chorus

Verse 3

You can pour your soul out singing a song you believe in, that tomorrow they’ll forget you ever sang,

Sing it anyway….yeah sing it anyway…..

I’ll sing, I’ll dream, I’ll love…anyway

It's all gonna be okay!

I will trust and I will believe that He will guide me and my family, and not forsake us!

God has had my attention now for a couple of weeks, and I am gonna trust and allow Him control of my life.

I want to be the Christian that He wants me to be, and I am learning how to "walk" again!

Please pray that I will not let fear control me, and that the Lord will renew my heart and mind!!!

I know...let's KILL HANNAH!!!!

Well...my latest addiction is a group outta Chicago that I have fallen in love with...they are Kill Hannah.....



and their latsest release is out...and worth a listen....



They have some songs that have a The Bravery sound...others have some Psychedelic Furs and some great 80's sounds that I can't figure out...all I know is that I LOVE their sound!!!!

Check them out...and tell me what YOU think!!!