Hi, I am basically a financial/numbers guru and am working as a financial analyst for a publicly traded company doing about $4 billion a year. The numbers coming in are very, very bad and I am helping to save the company millions a month. Top management always says that everything is OK, then they panic and want to override the cost cutting measures by laying off key employees or wanting to force an across the board pay cut. Please pray that the senior management will ask the Lord for help and give them the wisdom to make better decisions. This clearly reminds me of how it will be in the end days, when there is no food or money and everyone is out for themselves. I am sick to my stomach because the management will not reduce their spending habits. They are not out looking for work for the company, they are not assisting me in reducing pricing from our vendors or negotiating vendor discounts and payment terms, and they keep playing a blame game to lower people below them. I am also praying that if it is God's will that I find another job where my skills are suited to help a company that is proactive and can brave storms with ease. I feel I am on a sinking Titanic and the management is at the top of the ship telling everyone it is OK.

I wish I could afford to pay your salary...I could use a good Christian numbers genius! I will certainly pray for you.

Have you ever considered going out on your own? Maybe you could go into consulting...open up your own business!

You're in my prayers..
Love, Lisa

Amen to all your requests stated here! +

I pray that God blesses and protects you through this. As long as you keep it clean He will honor you. He already has your path planned out and knows all outcomes, so be at peace.

"Lord use this person in this company for your purposes, and teach this person what they need to know, and if it be your will move this person on to another job more worthy of this persons sincere desire to help the company and its employees. Amen!"

Thank you for your prayers. I really appreciate it, especially having the flu this week!

When I read the title of this thread I thought that you were talking about your own company. Employers like to build up this loyalty thing and talk about our company this and our company that. But the reality is that unless you are a major shareholder it really isn't your company. You are just a hired hand for the company. You have a job description. If you perform all the functions of your job description in a calm controlled way you will not be sacked especially if you are saving the company money. Try to let all the politics wash over you and focus on your own role. If you are getting to emotionally involved with the company then I certainly recommend a change of employer. Our vocation is to the Lord and we are his servants. As we serve our employer we serve the Lord but we only serve our employer for eight hours a day. Don't waste time brooding over things after hours. You don't get paid after hours do you. Do all your work thinking on the job.

Talking from my own experience I used to be a worrier. The book by Dale Carnegie How to stop worrying and start living made a big difference in my life. Its a rather humanistic book so it should be adjusted to demonstrate more Christian values.

One of the techniques is to live life in day tight compartments. This is a similar to the concept in Matthew Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof. I love that scripture. When I find myself thinking about all the what-if's I remember this scripture and snap out of it.

Rather than trying to change your company to be able to weather the storms, perhaps you can examine yourself and find ways to weather the storms so that they don't batter with you. Turn into the wind, roll with the waves rather than slamming into them broadside. Batten down the hatches and let the waves wash over you without affecting you.
You are not a little row boat in a Tsunami. Imagine yourself as a huge ocean liner (which you are with the power of Jesus) which just plows through the waves with scarcely a second thought.

The other technique in the book is to imagine what the worst thing that could happen is, then imagine yourself dealing with it (christianise by imagining how God will deliver you from it) Having confronted your fear and dealt with it you can then move on without fretting.

Even with these changes it may just be that this is an impossible task for you and you are still stressed and fatigued.

In ecclesiastes it says
Ecclesiastes 5:12 The sleep of a labouring man is sweet, whether he eat little or much: but the abundance of the rich will not suffer him to sleep.

What an incredibly wonderful and true scripture.

Many of us are heaping up sorrows and anxieties for ourselves by taking on high powered high paying jobs.

In the film Sweet November (rated NC - Non Christian for portraying worldly standards of morality to sex and vulgarity) with Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves it shows a young woman who is dieing. It shows how in her final months of life she gives up her highly successful business renounces the materialist ways of this life to do everyday things like walking the dogs, dinners with friends, helping strangers. In November she instructs a career driven young man whose life is falling apart how to recapture love and joy in his life.

This has many parallels in our lives as Christians. We need to live each day to the Lord because tomorrow our soul may be required of us. If we live each day to the Lord and give the employer what he is due we will find peace and tranquility. But if we neglect the Lord and give the employer more than he is due then we shall reap sorrow.

I might have completely missed the mark when it comes to you and I'm certainly not faulting you. You may well understand and apply all of these things. It certainly sounds that you are more senior in your company than I ever imagine attaining. I just mentioned these points because they came into my mind as I read your post and the other responses. I hope you don't mind.

Also I know that this is a prayer request forum and not an advice request forum so hopefully I haven't breached any board rules. Perhaps I better go and check.

In any event I will be thinking and praying about your situation CD

Well I had two interviews this week. Please pray I get a new job.

Yeah, I understand not to worry. I don't sit there and worry and I know how to weather storms. I have been through many companies in the .com era. I am asking for prayer because I am tired of feeling trapped in a pit of problems that I am always cleaning up. There are also several of my friends who are born again Christians there whose welfare depends on their job there. They are not so aggressive in business and it may be difficult for them to find another job. So I have a big responsibility to them. I just don't want to work for a company where I am constantly fixing problems that is because of someones negligence to an email that I sent a year ago telling them that I see a potential issue. So then a year later when the issue arises and becomes a problem, I get to clean it up and it is like cleaning up piles of mud instead of easily wiping up dust. I feel overwhelmed and am carrying a burden and workload that no one else can because they cannot handle it. Sometimes in the office, they break out alcohol! I am tired of the partying mindset. I am getting physically sick from the workload that I am carrying. It is wiping me out and I have to take work home. After hours and on the weekend, this is not an hourly job. This is a career where I am building up to the next level as an executive. I am now in management and have to stay smart with the way I am handling these issues because I need a reference. But at this point, I am ready to blow up and need to get out before I do. You know when you get your boss promoted, and one of your coworkers promoted, but they don't give you a promotion or a raise....and they give everyone else around you a raise and an office yet you are senior to them and your work load carries a weight that has significant impact to the welfare of the company? And then your boss wants you to write out procedures on your job because he/she does not understand what you do and they want you to train them? That is why I am angry and that is why the company is not doing well. Because it is being run in this manner. I definitely cannot work for a place like that. If I had a lot of money in the bank and was not on the verge of losing my house, and continuously getting calls from my utilities being a month past due, then I would not really worry so much about the company. But now they are talking about an across the board pay cut, I am not very happy. I have a little boy to think of and I do not have any family who lives within 2000 miles of me. That is a burden.

i have struggled, too, in the corporate world...only to find out
that God has a different plan for me. He taught me by experience
many things in the career realm in terms of sorting...doesn't that
sound funny. go sort it out. so i have been doing that for a very
long time, and i understand what you mean about needing the
title for the next step. except not.

just about 3 weeks ago, Father had me throw all my past
achievement notebooks and my comfort zone of things i contributed,
away. still no permanent job.

i am broke, no insurance, praying for every car payment to
come in, and every temp job to be the one that goes permanent.
in my heart i know what i really want...yes, it requires income to
move forth, however...He requires me to move forth without
income and do it anyway. i have had family abandon me and more
recently Christian friends that do not understand...a calling, maybe.

it is all about serving Him in all that we do. if He moves us then
we go, and sometimes we wait, and wait...that is really uncomfortable.
we sometimes find out who our friends are, and learn to pray for
those that lack faith while we are facing our trial. look at Job.

i am praying for you, that God will make clear your path, and even
while you worry...that you are able to cast all your anxiety upon Him
and praise Him. may all your needs be met in Christ Jesus.

Philippians 4:19

let me know.

blessings,
signet