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Tonight was the annual gathering on salary packages for seniors. Talk about overwhelming. Combine the words: base salary, housing allowance, expenses, IRS, loan repayments, and negotiations, and it seriously makes me want to drop out of seminary--if not ask the question, "Do I really want to do this?"

Yes, I know we only have a month of class yet, but it all gets to be too much--especially knowing that it could be awhile before I am having the negotiating talk, let alone the first interview.

Part of the reason the process it is so overwhelming is because each candidate is at a different place in the call process. Some already have had their first and second interviews, others have congregational profiles in their hands, and others, like me, haven't even had second conversations with their bishops (which won't happen for another two weeks).

It's a good thing I have my thesis writing to distract me. One week left, and I have most of it to still write.

Uh oh.

I probably should stop procrastinating and get back to work. Yep. Now if only I could remember where I put my motivation....