Unemployment

I have come to the end of another school year, and like the past six or so, that means I am in transition again, looking for a job. I have a Master's Degree, and I expected to be more established by now, and I am sure the people at the Dry Cleaner are confused when I turn in an application listing my academic experience to them so I can get a minimum wage job. Today, after finding out that the job I was inquiring about at a T-shirt printing business had been filled, I actually thought of posting an ad somewhere offering my services studying and teaching the Bible in the original languages for an hourly fee. I have seen jokes and cartoons around my college and seminary to that effect (will parse verbs for food), but today was the first time I actually thought it seriously. I wonder if people in my church would pay me to study the Bible for them and tell them what I find, or lead their family devotions for a day now and then, or once a week. I guess this is what I get when I have degrees in Bible and Biblical Languages and Old Testament. They are not exactly practical. But I do not think I would go back and change what I have studied; I have learned too much and grown as a person too much. If I had gone another way, and studied geography in college (like I thought to do during my senior year of high school), I might just as well be lamenting the impracticality of such a degree, or some other bothersome circumstance. It is not that bad; God provides everything I need. I have not gone hungry yet, nor have I had to sleep under a bridge, nor have I even been close to such measures.

I am looking for a job teaching the Bible in a Christian school for next year, and something to pay the bills for the summer. The trouble is that the Christian schools do not seem to be working out, and the summer jobs seem kind of humiliating and demeaning. There are forms of labor that I do not mind, but I am not interested in food service, and I do not do well with outdoor manual labor positions such as painting, construction, or landscaping. I love to work in my own yard, or in my parents', but not commercial work. I get easily discouraged and assume the worst about situations like this. Maybe I am being too personal in this, but I thought I should revive my blog.