I am pleased to announce that I have succeeded in the job search world. I am the newest member at Customer Direct (http://www.customerdirect.com )!!!!

I got two job offers Tuesday the 28th while I was at work and I just felt like exploading with excitement and content. I thank God everytime I think about it because there were so many times that I felt too tired to remain enthused on the search but he pulled me through and it is glorious!

So, I put in my 2 weeks notice at my current employer, which was very exciting, and my last day is Tuesday the 11th of September (ironic date).

What will I be doing? Well, I am going to be a PHP Programmer, my official title is IT Product Developer. Customer Direct outsources customer service for other companies, so my obvious main concern was that their main focus isn’t programming and development. After the interview I was highly convinced that without a doubt I would be of great importance and that ‘product development’ or programming is one of their essential utillities. The way I felt from my visit was absolutely amazing, the atmosphere was awesome, the people were great, and it just seemed like I fit.

It is a salary full time position, with benifits, and vacation time, which is very exciting because a year or two from now I would never had imagined having a full time salary job this early in the game, and I feel blessed and pray that God will give me the confidence and mindset to step foot onto the salary field.

My parents are helping me move on the 15th and my first day on the job is Wednesday the 19th of September.

I couldn’t be more excited.

So, I’m finally a little more settled down so I was able to get my website back up and running, it is now on a different server, other than my own, so it should be up 24hrs every day, whether I move or not.

For those of you who do not know why my site has been down, it is because I was hosting it on my server, and moved to Saint Louis, so there was some down time L.

Job

I’ve been working at Customer Direct for a week and a half now, I start my 2^nd full week tomorrow, and each day is just as exciting and enjoyable as the next. I am the ‘Number 2’ or the 2^nd lead programmer for their IT Product Solutions. —- caution: more detailed approaching: Customer Direct outsources Customer Service and is a 24 hour shop. They have clients, customers, phone agents, internet agents, who all must be monitored, recorded, be able to log and store data in regards to tickets, hours, problems, good things bad things, yada yada yada. :: big breath :: So in order to have that function, an IT Department is required, and so I am a part of the development and maintenance of the online application that controls this whole system.

There, that wasn’t so bad was it? You got it over with, you know a little more about what I do and you improved your reading skill by .000000000001% – maybe.

Home

I am pleased to call my new home by rent, “The Basement of My Sister”. I know what you’re thinking, but STOP, it’s so great and there’s not much more that I could ask for at the moment. I have my own domain, my own parking spot, home cooked meals, my own area in the bathroom, and I’m around family all the time, did I mention the home cooked meals?! There’s not much that beats that for a 19 year old – Life is good, and I feel blessed that I have a family who understand and are willing to help other family members, whether it’s a huge deal or a small deal, so I am very grateful.

Question: why do you spell grateful as grate when grate is a synonym for annoy, irritate, aggravate, vex? – very interesting, I’d like to know.

Well, this is the last weekend in my apartment in Chicago ;(.

I put two faces because I will miss this place, but I put smiles first because I’m super excited and cannot wait to move! Since this is my last weekend I thought I’d have a little fun and go crazy, so that’s why my entire weekend consists of helping with a school project, watching movies, and freelancing. Very Exciting… not. Oh well, I need the rest anyways.

It is super hard to find boxes in this area for some crazy reason. I called 4 grocery stores in my area and everyone who answered the phone sounded foreign and they put me on hold for a while, came back, and told me they don’t have any boxes try back later. Tuff luck matt.

I only have 2 days left at work! It’s unbelievable, and agonizing all at the same time. I’m definitely not going to miss the train rides and walking aka the four hour commute. Although I will have to make up for the reading time.

Well, I gotta get cleaning / box searching / packing.

adios

Labor day, filled with fun, amazing food, family, and especially a nevertiring joyful nephew .

I went back to my home town this weekend, Rock Island, for labor day weekend, and luckily enough Caleb (muh brother), Jenny (muh sister in law), Zeke (muh nephew), and Anabelle (muh niece) came down this weekend also! Which was great because I haven’t seen them in over 2 and a half months, and you know how fast little kids grow and it’s amazing.

Zeke became my best friend for the weekend and brought back childhood memories which was great, I played legos, gi-joes, cars, baseball with a tee, and a game over neverending movement, haha. The greatest part about it, is you (atleast I) always wish to go back to childhood and play those much loved activities like legos, but If you actually did it you’d say, “I could be doing somethign much better with my time” haha and you’d look silly. But the greatest thing is when you’re with your almost 3 year old nephew, you look silly to him if you don’t play.

YAY for excuses to go back to childhood.