Future Job Opportunities

U.S. News and World Report, quoted at Yahoo, has this to say about entering the clergy as a great job opportunity:

Want the satisfaction of doing good? You'll routinely play a significant role in major life events such as birth, marriage, crisis, and death. Plus this career offers status, normally modest work hours, and often good salaries. You needn't necessarily have unquestioned faith in God. I've spoken with a number of clergy who have deep questions about the nature and even existence of a Supreme Being.

The best thing about it is you don't have to believe much of anything and get paid to be nice! I can't believe they forget to mention pastors only work one day a week!

C.H. Spurgeon said, "If there's anything else you can do, don't preach."

Pastoring is not just another "helping professions." Though we deal with the intellectual elements of the faith, the thing we need most is a deep trust in God. When churches undermine what you do and work their best to run you off (no - this is not a description of my current church, but I have been there before and seen many other pastors in similar places), or, when you live in a culture that at best privatizes and at worst persecutes your living out your faith, you stop thinking about it as a "good job."

Though it is a job (I don't sit around and do nothing), it's about a call from God, not about looking for good job opportunities.