3. Volunteer for little, extra tasks at your bad job, speak well of all, get to know your co-workers. If they are part of "bad job", join in anyway, any way you can.

4. Plan, plan, plan, even in they don't always work. Plan C might be one!

5. Plan a “going, going, gone” party with a time line.

6. Network in best sense in giving to others who will remember you. Get their names & addresses. Ask for advice for your future.

7. Don’t be bullied. You are splendid, didn’t you know that?

It’s an expression of being grateful for your current state of life, even if it is not perfect. It makes you count your blessings and be glad for little things that you would otherwise take for granted.”

“What does “Grace” mean,” he asked.

I said, “It is ever-available goodness of God, ‘the gift freely given,’ as Paul said, that we usually forget about.”

Grace is like being a bootlegger for 25 years only to discover county you live in is wet anyway. Everything you needed was right there all along, you just didn’t know it.”

He laughed and seemed to understand. Then he went on his way.

But I realized how woefully out of practice I am.

I forgot to take an offering.