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So, I have been known by a lot of my friends as 'the science guy'. It goes with the territory when a lot of my friends are in business positions, or in the trades. A lot of them have been my friends for a while, through the times when I was going to school and pursuing my degree.
Well, I am switching jobs now. I'm going from the career I've been in to more of a sales roles. Sure, for the last 5 years I have been what some would call an 'application' or 'sales' engineer, but now the accounts will be my resposibility.
I've always had the knack to explain things to people at whatever level they need it explained, without losing the message. So, this position will be good for me in that I can use that gift to connect people with solutions.
But there is an extra freedom in it, in that I don't have to do the designs; I don't have to get down to the nuts and bolts of the solution, and make it happen that way.
I don't have to be the 'science guy'...the designer....the engineer.
I love that fact.
Not that I don't like engineering, or science for that matter, but the fact is I get the most joy out of connecting with people, finding out what there projects (aka problems) are, and helping them find a solution. It gets their job done, makes them happy, and is great 'job satisfaction'. And it's a better use of the gifts God has given me.
Why do I bring this up?
Praying on these changes, I was able to realize that my professional life and my spiritual life are running parallel to each other. I was able to come to Christ and find salvation through His sacrifice by changing the way that I view the world - to listen to the 'voice' - my conscience, and all the 'nudges' God (through the Holy Spirit) has given me along the way.
In other words, I moved my understanding of God, of His love for me, from an 'engineering project' - the hows and wheres and whys of it - to a relationship.
Like so many people, I asked why things happened to me, and tried to map things out, tried to make them fit. I often asked what my gifts were, why I was given the ability to talk with people and explain things and help them understand.
I now realize that it's to help others find Jesus. Maybe give them the tools to make that move more quickly than I did - spare them some of the headache of trying to 'engineering it' themselves.
Around the same time I was thinking about moving my career into the place it's going, I also found the church that my family and I are now attending. The fact that the Lighthouse Alliance Church is focused on evangelism seems to fit very well with the gifts God has given me.
So, just like the shredded wheats that have two sides, so do I. My techinical, scientific side, can see the path God laid out for me, getting me where I need to be to serve Him, and the spiritual side finally understood how best to follow that path. |
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