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Read “The Peter Principle” and thank heaven you did not rise to the level of your incompetence.

Well some people dont have jobs at all.

sometimes not getting our way turns out to be the best thing that ever could have happened to us. I can’t help but remember all the people who missed their bus or train the morning of 9/11. Or the guy that got fired from his job 2 weeks before, and his office was on the 92nd floor. These are things we can see, but there are so many we can’t. Every time I am stuck in traffic,I may be being saved from some horrible crash just up the road. The same truth can be applied to difficult circumstances in my life. I can’t see why this is happening right now, and I may never know, but I have to stay open to the possibility that it may turn out to be a really good thing.
My husband bid on a job in our home town. We both wanted to move back there so badly, having no family here where we currently live. He had seniority, the right skills, it looked like a lock. But he didn’t get it. He was devastated. I cried. It felt like a sentance being stuck here. But if we had moved, I wouldn’t have found out about a major health problem, and we wouldn’t be living in the city that has the doctors that treat it. My husbnad also got a WAY better job, and we’re making more money than we ever could have made in our old home town.
Stay positive. Keep your chin up, and keep looking for the blessings.

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One more though: remember that with more responsibility come more headaches. Be glad you don’t have to take on those headaches.

Errr, thought.