Goodbye Legos, Hello Internet!

***UPDATE***

I've been asked what the bad news was...well, it was how much he would be paid at this new dream job.  Lets just say that he would probably be better off at Starbucks or In-n-Out.  However, he has just completed his first week and LOVED it!  The guys he works with have already given him greater responsibility and he comes home beaming on a nightly basis.  I couldn't be happier despite the fact that we may still be on the streets next week - or at least Chachi will be.

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A few weeks ago I mentioned Joel got a job teaching Legos and how wonderful this was.  Seems this was only wonderful in my book and while I may have wanted to spend my days playing with Legos, Joel certainly did not.  So he continued the job search.

Last Friday he had an interview with a company that posts how-to videos (much like YouTube).  The interview went perfectly and we were on top of the world cause we knew that Joel hands down blew them away.  Everything was perfect - Joel would be working in the marketing division of a venture capitalist techie company; they used macs; Joel would be required to spend mass amounts of time on the internet; he got along great with the guys there; he would work part-time until he finished up school and then they would bring him on full-time; and the place is a few miles from home.  He was told that they would get back to him that night.  We waited.

Each day Joel became a bit more depressed about the situation.  I tried the pep-talk, the well if you don't get this I will still love you talk, the you're perfect for the job and it must just be extraneous circumstances keeping them from calling you.  Everyday I would rush out to my car after class and frantically check my phone to see if Joel had called with the good news.  But everyday my little phone returned nothing.

I gave Joel permission to take the week off from job-hunting so that he could focus on school (and more importantly not focus on jobs).  We prayed and prayed and knew that if this was what God wanted then it would happen.  But surely it was because the job was so perfect!

And then it came.  No, not the text message on my phone.  I came home tonight and decided that if they had called then Joel would tell me.  So I refrained from asking, but I didn't have to because when I got home Joel told me had good news and bad news.  I knew right then - they had called and he had the job.  To say that I screamed and jumped up and down would be a slight understatement.  Periodically I would scream out loud and grab him by the neck in a I can't believe you're doing the job of your dreams kind of way.

He starts next Tuesday and I can't wait to hear how the first day goes.