Posted By joni on May 5, 2012
As all things must come to an end, so has my time with PSA. Today is my first day as a bum and I shall mark it by posting my farewell email to my colleagues.
All,
It has come time for me to move on. I have nothing but sincere gratefulness for the years I spent with PSA. I have learned a lot and I have met some truly wonderful people, both in Manila and in Shanghai. I am most thankful for both the incomparable learning opportunity as well as the understanding and support of colleagues-turned-friends in matters both professional and personal. I can honestly say that those 4.something years have mostly been fun and I have mostly been happy.
My next few months will be spent with the mixed blessing and curse that unemployment brings: time to do whatever I want, minus the income I need to truly do whatever I want. I did pick an appropriate time to be unemployed: my novel is coming out in June and I intend to go all out in promoting it. After all, I don’t often get books published. In fact this is the first one. Perhaps I can work on the second novel while I contemplate on my next move.
I will be in Shanghai until the first week of June so just text me if you want to hang out. Just nothing too expensive (I will only be relying on my savings pretty soon) or too strenuous (my bad knee is still, uh… bad).
Also don’t even think you’ve heard the last of me yet. I’ll be nagging everyone to buy at least one copy of my novel as soon as it’s out. And I can be very persistent. Just letting you all know what to expect. Plus, you know, have pity on a starving writer…
To keep in touch across the ocean [I shall be leaving these fields blank here]:
Email:
YM:
Skype:
Blog: http://soyoufound.me
Shanghai cell number:
I am on both Facebook and Twitter. And also on LinkedIn, and Google+, and Quora, and Foursquare, and Instagram so really, you have absolutely no excuse not to keep in touch. [I realize that I should probably also be on Kaixin, Renren, weibo, QQ, etc. but really, they’re way too much effort. I did try signing up for Renren about a year ago and was not very successful. They’ve been spamming me since but that’s another (uninteresting) story.]
Seriously, do keep in touch and um, buy my book. Ktnxbye!
–joni
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