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Afghanistan--it's just really hard.
I don't know how to explain it, how hard it is.
I served in the military for 11 years.
Being in Afghanistan is not easy.
It makes you see life for what it's worth,
because you know what it's like for the people who
don't have anything.
Working on helicopters in Afghanistan
was, like, an eye-opener.
I picked the UH-60 Black Hawk, and I've
been on them ever since.
When I stepped into this new role,
coming back to the civilian world,
I felt like I was not a part of it.
The only thing I knew was military.
I was lost.
But it was difficult to tell people
that you're lost, because they don't understand why.
Searching for a job is horribly frustrating.
I decided to join the Find a Better Job group,
and there I found so many answers.
When I joined the class, I thought
I was just going to sit in the back and just go through it
and do everything on my own.
But I learned that you need support.
You need help.
You need people.
I had to learn to be vulnerable.
I had to learn to depend on someone, to accept support.
I thought, when I started this, that my spiritual being
and the spiritual health and all those things
were separate from work.
And I realize now that you need that foundation to make work
work--to make it work.
In God's plan, you're enormous.
He teaches you that you're part of something big.
I applied for about six jobs.
And I went into the interview.
And when I sat down, he goes, "All right, there's
a packet that I'm going to print out,
and we're going to go over that."
He goes, "I'm not going to lie to you.
If I was sitting on the other side of that desk,
I wouldn't know not one of the answers to these questions."
And I was like, "Oh, great."
So he started asking me the questions.
And the best part is, I knew all the questions.
I had heard them in my class--all the questions.
And he was so impressed and blown away.
He goes, "I've already made my decision," before we even
finished.
And I was like, "I hope he's talking about me."
He goes, "You're hired."
I was like, "What?"
Like, "Awesome!"
After this class, my spiritual life has grown as well.
I learned that you need other people to grow spiritually
also.
I used to pray like I was leaving a voicemail.
That's how I used to pray.
And now I don't do that anymore.
So I pray specifically now, and I talk with God instead of
at Him.
I've learned how to pray, and I've learned
how to accept the answers.
I feel much closer to God.
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