“I have two months left to work,” he said. “They’re closing down the IT department.”
A Second Hit
“Micah looked shell shocked,” Shannon remembers. “He’d worked for State Farm® for seven years since graduating from college. He loved his job and losing it sent him into a depression; it changed him. He sent his résumé out everywhere.
“Before his job ended at State Farm, he was offered a position with GMAC Insurance. They hired him on a contract basis, but we weren’t worried about that. My brother had been hired on a contract basis for another company and he worked there a long time. The job at GMAC came with an increase in pay, so we took out a $15,000 loan and bought a Jeep to replace my car which had died and wasn’t worth repairing.
“During this time I’d had a miscarriage and stopped working. A few days after Micah started his new job, I found out I was pregnant again. We were thrilled! Everything seemed to be working out well. Since Micah made so much money, I didn’t rush out and look for a new job. If possible, I hoped to take a year to stay home with the baby.”
Six months later, Shannon had just started dinner when Micah walked into the kitchen. “You’ll never guess what I was just told,” he said.
“What?”
“I’m getting laid off again. They’re going to outsource their IT work to India.”
Shannon felt numb with shock. She was entering her third trimester of pregnancy and Micah was about to be out of work.
Again!
“You know what?” Shannon said with more confidence than she felt, “God will make a way.”
BVOV : 19
