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From: Ron
Date: Mon Oct 20 21:23:48 EDT 2008
Subject: job interview

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Boojeee: hoping (10/21/08)

kimc: Cool Connection (10/21/08)

corwithani: beacon group? (10/22/08)

Ron: Beacon Group (10/24/08)

adriennelynne: sounds cool (10/24/08)

Ron: No Subject (10/25/08)

Karen: More on the Beacon Group (10/27/08)

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Karen: More on the Beacon Group (10/27/08)
Ron: No Subject (10/25/08)
adriennelynne: sounds cool (10/24/08)
Ron: Beacon Group (10/24/08)
corwithani: beacon group? (10/22/08)
kimc: Cool Connection (10/21/08)
Boojeee: hoping (10/21/08)

Today I had an interview with the Beacon Group. I have no idea if I will be given an offer, or if I was rejected. I know that I went into the interview somewhat comfortable. I would really enjoy working with the Beacon Group, for the rest of my life. I am very much impressed with the work that the Beacon Group does, but even more to the point is how they operate. There is a great deal of dedicated compassionate people who spend a great deal of their time and effort making the lives of other people valued and valuable. This is something that is honorable and very worthy. This is God’s hand and His Heart at work, through the work of these highly dedicated people. Whether or not I am employed by Beacon Group, I have found an organization that I would be proud to be a part of, for the rest of my life.
I am happy that I was able to learn about this organization

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From: Boojeee
Date: Mon Oct 20 23:26:47 EDT 2008
Subject: hoping

I hope you get the job.

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From: kimc
Date: Tue Oct 21 18:41:16 EDT 2008
Subject: Cool Connection

Ron, it is so great to hear you speak with passion about this organization. I have no doubt they felt that as they interviewed you. It feels like a big thing when you say you would be happy to work with them for the rest of your life. If this doesn't pan out it still seems like a good indicator of what kind of work you would like to do.

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From: corwithani
Date: Wed Oct 22 17:50:14 EDT 2008
Subject: beacon group?

Ron,
This is super exciting, I hope you get it as well... but I'm not gonna lie, I have never heard of the Beacon Group. Can you tell me what it is and what gets you excited about it? I'm sure I can google it but I'm sure it'd be a lot more enlightening to hear specifically from you.

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From: Ron
Date: Fri Oct 24 15:40:24 EDT 2008
Subject: Beacon Group

The Beacon Group focus is on people with Developmental Disabilities. Primarily those at the low end of the intelligence tables of the IQ test. Often this includes people with physical disabilities, and sometimes with emotional disabilities.
What makes the Beacon Group different and very uniquely rare, is that the client’s needs are a top priority. The people they serve are treated with respect and dignity, and not just there to make other people a living serving the "needs" they serve. The top priority at Beacon Group is to focus on the people they serve with respect and dignity, because that is what they deserve.
Today the world of Social Service seems to me to be very dysfunctional, because of the cookie cutter system created to work within the system. It has been my very limited experience that social service organizations are operated from the top down to the people they serve. The focus is on jobs for the staff and management, and how can they do what it is that they are going to do. The people they serve more than often fall through the cracks, or are forced to be manipulated by the system, in order to receive the services they need. The system is devoid of compassion and dignity, except to the words in the mission statement.
I realize that this is a generalization, based on my very limited observation. It does not mean that every single social service agency is operated in such a manner. I also could be wrong in my limited observations and in my judgment. We live in a fallen world, and should not expect a world full of rose gardens. But is the rose garden full of weeds and thorns, with only a few roses?

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From: adriennelynne
Date: Fri Oct 24 17:14:49 EDT 2008
Subject: sounds cool

So it sounds like a neat place to work. I hope that if you get the job you see the Beacon Group is as great as it sounds! I hope you get the opportunity to work there! So here's my question based on your initial post... is it really rejection if God has another job planned for you? :)

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From: Ron
Date: Fri Oct 24 21:11:07 EDT 2008
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I would like nothing more that to have God tell me what He wants from me, in a definitive way. But what God wants from me to do for a living, is not something God often chooses for us. He can, and sometimes he does, but He also gives us great freedom in making choices for ourselves. I think that God takes a great deal of pleasure in watching us make good wise choices in our lives, and he has heartfelt tears with us, when we make bad and unwise choices. God’s will is that we live out our lives worshiping Him, with our lives, and with our relationships. If I pray often, with honesty and openness, read and study the words in the Bible on a regular and frequent basis. If I am willing and able to develop relationships that are healthy and mutually beneficial, and I bring God into those relationships, so that God is honored, then what more can I do for God?
I know that in the last 10 months of looking for a job, I have had no luck at securing any position I have applied for. I know that I have prayed often that I find any job, no matter what kind or for any length of time. I would take a job for less than minimum wage for a day, or for the rest of my life. Is God preventing me from obtaining employment? I can only answer that I don’t know. I don’t know why He would. I know that God can do anything He wants to, from preventing me a job for the rest of my life, to giving me a job, which I would excel at, and anything in between.
Of all the 500 resumes I have sent out, there has only been one company that I am impressed with there work, and how they do it. This is not a Christian organization, but it sounds like it was founded many years ago by someone who was a Christian. The Beacon Group is the type of company I would be proud to work for, in any capacity.
I do not care what I do, rather that: what I do have some benefit or meaning other than a paycheck.

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From: Karen
Date: Mon Oct 27 18:00:02 EDT 2008
Subject: More on the Beacon Group

Thrift store connection: if you've ever shopped at Value Village (like the one on 4th Avenue), that's their thrift store. I know that's not as close to most of you as the Savers, etc. ;-)

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