For those who follow me on Twitter, or are personal friends, you know that as of January 30, 2009, my husband Mark has been unemployed. This was really a planned unemployment as he worked for Chrysler and took a buy-out and chose to leave. Things are not looking good for Chrysler, particularly their Fenton, Missouri truck plant where Mark worked. So we opted to leave on our timing and not sitting around on pins and needles amidst the drama waiting for the axe to fall, so to speak.

So it’s been 2 weeks since he’s been off work. After getting some health testing out of the way that was long overdue, he’s kicking into high gear on what he’s going to do next to earn a living. We have some cushion money to last us a few months, but would prefer not to use that money and instead have been praying about a career for him.

Mark’s first love is audio/visual technology. That was the field he worked in for many years prior to his move to Chrysler. He went to Chrysler as the pay and benefits were much better than what he was making in the audio/visual field at that time. That said, even though he would love to get back into audio/visual work, he is open to other options.

Today he was searching Google for plumbing jobs (thinking this might be something he would also like), and entered a pay range for that; and within the returned listings for plumbing jobs: up pops an AUDIO/VISUAL position in St Louis and even above the pay range he and entered!! Now I don’t know about you, but we believe that to be God interceding! First thing tomorrow, he’s applying for that job. And get this, the place hiring is a place he has done audio/visual work for when he was A/V manager at another company! So they have already worked with him in the past!

I’m so excited at this new job prospect for Mark. It’s really what he’s gifted in doing, and would love to do. He has still been doing audio/visual work as the sound engineer for our church, even helping with some recordings, concerts held at our church and other similar events. He knows his stuff!

So please pray that if this is God’s will, that Mark will get this job. I’ll keep ya posted.

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Written by Traci Knoppe ©: Aside from her roles as wife, mother of six, mother-in-law and grandmother, Traci also works at home as a business owner.