The New Deal

So, for all of you who arent already aware, today was my final day working as a software requirements analyst at Seilevel, Inc. I’m ok with all of that because I have felt led recently to pursue some form of full time vocational Christian Ministry. I think I resisted this at first because I felt like I was just following the crowd and I wasn’t really entirely sure if it was for me, but after spending eight weeks in Corporate America I feel like getting a “job” and working for “the man” probably doesn’t match up with my skills or my passions.

Seilevel was very kind and gracious in their goodbye, and made sure I was well aware that them not wanting to renew my contract had nothing to do with me, but much more to do with the fact that their sales have dipped pretty far below what they had budgeted for this year. I feel like this job was a gift from God, in that I was less than a month away from not being able to make rent before I got the job, and now my savings acount actually has savings in it and I should be able to easily transition to wherever I’m going next with little trouble. I also learned a lot about MS Office and being responsible and disciplined and how to better communicate in small and large group projects, something I didn’t have much of as a physics undergrad. It also gave me something to do in an era of my life where I needed to keep busy in order to keep my mind from dwelling on certain things, but instead was cursed with endless amounts of free time. And of course I now own a lot of clothes which you might call “business casual”. I like to call them “clothes-that-cause-the-ladies-to-lust”.

So, thus ends another chapter of Cabe’s life, hereafter referred to as “The Chapter in Which Cabe Had Money”. However depending on how my next plans pan out the money will likely not last for long. I have applied for admissions to Mars Hill Graduate School where I will be pursuing a Master of Divinity. I will post my admissions essays sometime this weekend. It’s going to be a pretty expensive three year program and I will probably be living in relative poverty for that period of time in Seattle, WA. This is a very exciting prospect for me for a number of reasons, one of which being the city of Seattle and its alleged similarities in personality to my beloved Austin, and of course the classes that I will be taking should be amazingly challenging and enlightening and stretching for me spiritually.

I’ve also applied for a number of jobs at churches, mostly in the Youth Ministry genre, currently with three officially in the pipeline (you can call them Houston, St. Louis and Berkeley). I think I would prefer to wait a year for seminary and do one of these if I can swing it.

Also with my newly found free time I plan on posting to the blog more often, reading books, being still and knowing that He is God, and going on a couple of road trips. I will at the very least be joining my hao pengyoumen (incorrect Chinese for “good friends”) Colin and Rene on a trip to Seattle for the first half of July, which I am quite stoked about. All in all I would say I am pretty optimistic and excited about this new direction, and I just ask that you pray that God will give me discernment on what to do in the coming months.