# Dear Lord, I found a job.
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
**Created:** [October 19, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303 "2009-10-19T07:44:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 7:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/1 "2009-10-19T07:44:14Z")
It’s been tentative for about a week, but I got and signed the official paperwork today.
I have 8 weeks left of unemployment, $255 left in my savings account, and a signed contract. I feel lighter, safer, and like tonight I am going to sleep good for the first time in months. If I wasn’t too excited to go to sleep. I seriously could dance on the ceiling.
I don’t know why I’m telling y’all. I’m just telling everyone. I’m going to go to a Catholic Church and go in the booth and tell the priest.
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### Author:  [@Crowbar\_of\_Irony\_3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crowbar_of_Irony_3)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/2 "2009-10-19T09:18:12Z")
Great news! I think you need the rest too.
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### Author:  [@Audrey\_Levins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Audrey_Levins)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 9:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/3 "2009-10-19T09:33:41Z")
Congrats!
My job annoys the hell out of me, and (without being snarky at all) it’s posts like yours which remind me I’m a lucky girl.
Get some sleep and good luck!! 🙂
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### Author:  [@leander](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/leander)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 9:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/4 "2009-10-19T09:56:22Z")
Well done!
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### Author:  [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 10:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/5 "2009-10-19T10:01:09Z")
YAY!
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### Author:  [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 11:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/6 "2009-10-19T11:15:21Z")
> [@Obsidian](#):
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> I’m going to go to a Catholic Church and go in the booth and tell the priest.
**Obsidian: Of course I’m not Catholic Father!**
- Priest: Then why are you telling me this?\*
\*\* Obsidian: Just you? Hell, I’m telling everyone I can find\*\*
Congratulations and good job. I am sure you will do great.
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### Author:  [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 11:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/7 "2009-10-19T11:21:23Z")
Congratulations. Wishing you luck and joy in your new career! 🙂
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### Author:  [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 11:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/8 "2009-10-19T11:56:33Z")
Congrats!
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### Author:  [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/9 "2009-10-19T15:56:29Z")
YAY!
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### Author:  [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 5:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/10 "2009-10-19T17:03:23Z")
> [@Obsidian](#):
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> I’m going to go to a Catholic Church and go in the booth and tell the priest.
Wouldn’t an evangelical church work better? You can yell it at the congregation and they, like us, will yell back
Hallellujah praise the Lord!
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### Author:  [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 5:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/11 "2009-10-19T17:23:42Z")
> [@Obsidian](#):
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> … go in the booth and tell the priest.
_Forgive me, Father, for I have made doodie._
Congrats, Obsidian. Might I ask if your username has anything to do with your profession?
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### Author:  [@Obsidian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obsidian)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 7:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/12 "2009-10-19T19:14:06Z")
Thanks for the good wishes. 🙂
This is absolutely the most frivolous thread I’ve ever made. I’m just so happy this unemployment nightmare is over. I know I don’t have it as bad as many do-- my husband works for the federal gov’t so we’ve had one reliable income and health insurance. But his was the lesser income so it’s been _really_ tight.
**lieu** , it’s totally unrelated. I am neither a geologist, not a game developer.
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### Author:  [@UncleNito](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleNito)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/13 "2009-10-19T20:22:13Z")
Congrats!
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### Author:  [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/14 "2009-10-19T20:37:37Z")
**Obsidian** , about six years ago, the company my husband was working for went out of business right from under him. On Friday he had a job, and on Monday there was no company there! :eek: And, since I was a SAHM, he was the sole wage-earner. He shuffled to find another job fast, but was seriously under-employed for two years.
Those two years _sucked_. We were seriously so broke that several times we got governmental help with our heating costs, and regularly used food pantries.
After two years, he managed to land a federal job he’d been angling for the whole time. Whew.
All I’m saying is, I can _so_ identify with your sense of relief!
Congratulations and best of luck!!
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### Author:  [@Huerta88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Huerta88)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 8:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/15 "2009-10-19T20:56:45Z")
Good for you. I’m regularly trying to console folks who are three, five, eleven months out of work. Just from observing that, the helplessness alone has to suck.
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### Author:  [@rocking\_chair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rocking_chair)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/16 "2009-10-19T22:21:58Z")
this is fantastic news!
i’m so happy for you and hope everything goes well at the new job.
whhooooo hoooooo!
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### Author:  [@fluiddruid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fluiddruid)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 10:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/17 "2009-10-19T22:25:41Z")
> [@Obsidian](#):
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> Thanks for the good wishes. 🙂
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> This is absolutely the most frivolous thread I’ve ever made. I’m just so happy this unemployment nightmare is over. I know I don’t have it as bad as many do-- my husband works for the federal gov’t so we’ve had one reliable income and health insurance. But his was the lesser income so it’s been _really_ tight.
Hey, it’s not frivolous to express feeling at a pivotal point in your life. Just the idea of not having a job has inspired me to panic (I’m switching jobs right now, and am terrified of it not working out). I can completely empathize with your relief and joy at having this weight off your shoulders.
Absolutely have the best of luck in your new adventure!
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### Author:  [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/18 "2009-10-19T22:54:49Z")
Well done!
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### Author:  [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)
#### Post date: [October 19, 2009, 11:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/19 "2009-10-19T23:43:28Z")
Very glad to hear it! Hope great times are ahead.
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### Author:  [@Fetchund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fetchund)
#### Post date: [October 20, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/dear-lord-i-found-a-job/514303/20 "2009-10-20T00:06:17Z")
Yeah! Congrats! Sleep well - you’ve earned it!
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