Someone once told when that when your intentions are good in taking major turns in your life (like quitting a job), God will provide you with your needs. That has been proven true: I was once on the verge of quitting my previous job even without an alternative source of income. When you are parenting alone like me, I am always scared that my son will starve and will get sick when I have not a penny in my pocket. Those fears alone prevented me from quitting.

Blogging changed my life and helped me sail the right course.

TJ doesn’t have any idea but bagging that CW blogging gig (Straight From The Doc) gave me enough guts to drop the job in an instance. I was able to break away from that “bondage” because SFTD will place food on the table. It isn’t much but my son will not starve anymore and so I decided that it’s time to go home. Just food. But was enough at that moment.

So I signed my resignation letter and while I was having a hard time convincing my boss, my application at KMM was underway. Two days after I handed in my application, I landed that blogging gig at The PharmVoice and provided me with a fat secure monthly bonus to make life in the province a bit more than the necessity. I am not allowed to say how much but blogging at both KMM and CW placed me in the 4 figure problogging, if I am not lazy and keep the needed blogging pace.

It has been more than 2 months and I have paid all remaining debts (mine and the family’s) and when the storm came, I have moolah to resume the house construction that was started before my father died last year.

Now I am just at a steady-still enjoying a laid back life and the regular blogging when new job opportunities came. I mentioned in a previous post that I wasn’t even looking but they just came, because these are old applications that for some divine intervention, have been recently activated.

Last week I declined flat the college teaching job that I pursued last year. Declined it because I have an interview coming up on the 13th as lab manager/supervisor at an SGS lab in Albay. And then on the 14th, I am going to take a pre-employment examination at PNOC-EDC, as Lab Chemist in the BAC-MAN plant in Sorsogon. Yeah, I will be in the Makati/Manila area on those days.

My point really is that, for once in life that I am not thinking of my life and just wanted to go home and take care of my family: my recently-widowed mother and my 3-yr old son. I was ready to do all that even with just the meager separation pay that I got. Afterwards, bahala na. God knows that I terribly need money (who doesn’t?) because I need to take care of many things and put our lives back in good order, so that’s what he gave me and now hopefully, that security of a regular job that I could probably retire with.

For the nth time, I have proven that God provides you with what you need and not what you want.

Oh yeah I will still be blogging…I cannot let the fat bonus get away…not yet! ;-)