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Um, do you know what the new ketchup is yet?

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Is there an LDS Employment Resource center anywhere near you?

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And you don't necessarily need contacts depending on where in the sports industry you want to be, but you'll have to start at the bottom. Which you probably can't afford to do.

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I had considered at one point becoming a sports agent, but I don't think I have what it takes to do that.

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I think the nearest Employment Center is in Pasadena. Or Glendale. I'm pretty sure it's the same building as LDS Family Services, and I went to counseling there before we were married, but that was quite a while ago...

We'll talk to the bishop Sunday. LDS Employment has been REALLY helpful in the past. They get job leads that no one else does.

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If you weren't the sole means of support for a rapidly expanding clan of condiments

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I don't know how many leads they would have for San Diego, though.

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Rabbi Akiva was perhaps the greatest of all Torah scholars. He lived some
1,800 years ago shortly after the destruction of the second Temple and at
one point had some 24,000 pupils!

Once he was in the middle of a lone journey and before nightfall entered a
large village to spend the night.

But every house rejected him. Perhaps they hated Jews, or perhaps they were
simply cruel but in any case they told him to leave.

Rabbi Akiva instead of getting angry, cheerfully said "Whatever G-d does
is
for the good" and exited the gates of the town.

He found himself a small clearing a good distance away and settled down
under a tree to sleep thanking G-d that he still had his rooster, candle and
donkey.

The rooster was to awaken him at midnight, the candle to provide him the
light necessary to learn Torah until the morning and the donkey would take
him to his destination.

It wasn't easy to light the candle but he got it lit before nightfall, tied
his donkey to a tree, gave some grain to the rooster and prepared for sleep.
Then suddenly a wind swept his little encampment extinguishing the small
flame and leaving him in almost total darkness; he could barely see anything
in the dim moonlight.

"What G-d does is for the good" Said Rabbi Akiva and continued his
preparations in the quiet night.

Suddenly the silence was broken by insane cackling and wild flapping. Rabbi
Akiva turned and let out a startled cry; a weasel was dragging away the
quivering body of his rooster. "Whatever G-d does is for the good" he
said
calmly. And instead of getting depressed and cursing the darkness he again
lay back down and closed his eyes.

Only moments later the air shook with an awesome roar and frantic braying.
He sat bolt upright to see a lion crouched on the thrashing carcass of his
donkey; digging its teeth and claws into its flesh and finally dragging it
too into the night.

Instead of being filled with fear and gloom Rabbi Akiva confidently
repeated, "Whatever G-d does is for the good", closed his eyes and
again
went to sleep.

The next morning he woke to the smell of smoke. He sat up looked in the
direction of the town and was greeted by a frightening sight; it was totally
in flames! It seems that that night a large band of robbers had raided the
place, killed most of the men, took everyone else as slaves and put the
entire city to the torch.

"Aha!" He said to himself, "Truly everything that G-d does is for
the good!
If the candle had been lit, the rooster had crowed or the donkey brayed I
certainly would not be here now." (Brachot 60b)

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Originally posted by TomDavidson:
Funny. I hear that story and think "I'm glad God let that village die so the Rabbi could learn a lesson."

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The point is that the villagers were, for whatever reason, meant to die. This man was not.

If someone missed the train or was delayed for whatever reason on 9/11, and therefore his life was saved, if he's religious, he would definitely be thinking that God saved him - he certainly isn't thinking that "oh, God wiped out the world trade center just to teach me a lesson."


Good luck on your job search, KPC; hope you find something even better than previously.

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