Eshin Direct

Well, I got my official two months notice from the company on Friday. It wasn’t completely unexpected but still had me grinning like an idiot the whole day. It’s sort of what I do when I’m faced with difficult situations. I remember taking exams I hadn’t studied for and I’d be grinning that same way before.

Being retrenched is strangely reassuring. It’s given me one more certainty to deal with. After months of uncertainty, the official notice has indeed had a certainty factor to it. It’s still a bitch though.

It’s not all doom and gloom. I might have an offer going down in Singapore which I’m still hoping to get some news on. It’ll mean a pay decrease, a demotion and a different area of working (account servicing!), but in the long term it will get me more ahead. For my career, it’s definitely a bonus.

Only problem is, is that I’ve got quite used to Hong Kong and wouldn’t mind staying here. Ironically, I did set myself two years for Hong Kong and then try a move to Singapore. Somewhere I began to get settled in HK and forgot about the idea of Singapore. Guess I’m on track then with my plans…for once. I can always come back to Hong Kong if I really desired it. Nothing is impossible in that regard. I guess my bitching is more about the idea that I’m not leaving on my own terms and being forced out.

In the words of Ben Kenobi – “If you strike me down now, I’ll only become stronger.” So true… I’ll be back to HK and McCann’s over here. I’ll be stronger then too. Now, just to make that happen.