As some of you know, I’m looking for a new job. Today I was on a phone interview with a potential employer and they asked me an interesting question; “If you could be anyone in the world for a week, who would you be?” My first thought was Bill Gates or Warren Buffet. But then I thought about all the stress those guys have to deal with, all the people they have hanging on them. So I started running various people through my mind and eliminated each one before their name fully formed.
Finally I told the lady that I couldn’t think of anyone else that I wanted to be. I told her I didn’t think I could be as happy being someone else as I could being me.
After I got off the phone I sat and thought more about that question. And it struck me kind of odd that, after the way last month went with me losing my wife* and my job within weeks of one another, that I still love my live. I might be sad or bummed out sometimes, but overall I really like my life. I know it sounds corny, but to me this was an important realization. While I have much to learn, I am who God wants me to be and I wouldn’t trade it for a thing.
Oh, and I completed the phone interview and then aced the face-to-face interview this afternoon. I have a second face-to-face interview next week. Praise God!
* By losing my wife I mean that she left, not that she died. I should have been more clear there, it seems.
