It has been exactly more than a month since my single adult life started.  In the beginning, things were very hectic.  I had 11 to 12 hour days to catch up on everything up to speed, especially for the program that I’ve been working on.  Other than that, I also had to attend hours and hours of training to get myself adjust to my company’s policies, learning different vocabulary, and figuring out who’s who and who’s doing what.

For this past month of September, I’ve been definitely humbled a lot.  I realized that I’m not the best nor the smartest person a live.  Every day I wish that my brain capacity was little bigger.  There were days that I’ve been asking God why you put me into these types of situation because the job that I have as a product engineer in the automotive industry is totally different from what I used to do as  materials science major coming out from my undergraduate years.  However, I prayed asking God to provide for me and He answered, so I try my best not to complain about it.

Commuting has been another issue.  I travel a lot.  I started to have two different desks at two different office locations, one in Auburn Hills, MI and the other in Warren, MI.  Getting up at 5:30 in the morning to commute has been really hard and especially whenever I have to go to my office in Auburn Hills, the 1-hour commute has been really tough both physically and mentally.  There were some days that I go to work and completely don’t know how I ended up being there safe and sound.  Some days I had to travel to both of those office locations on the same day.  Wow…I thought…this really blows.

However, in the mist of all my struggles, God has been definitely working in my life as well as really protecting my heart even at work.  My mentor/senior engineer has been really nice and helpful to me.  Unlike other engineers who just seem like really busy and have no interest in teaching and training the new hired people, my mentor has been physically taking his time from his program to help me catching things up to speed…now this is really rare.  Also, people at work are generally nice and flexible.  Having these wonderful people as my colleagues really help and enable me to work with them well and be able to demonstrate Christ-centered life.

Now, I’m in New Haven, MO for my 11-week training.  The work has definitely gotten more difficult and complicated.  I still have my 11 and 12-hour days and whenever I go home, I feel exhausted.  I used to be so attached to my cell phone and my laptop, but these days after work, I do not want to touch these.  I know it will be a demanding time for me with all these things going on with my program and training but I know God is here with me and He will always be.  So…what is life going to be like here in New Haven?