Three weeks ago, I sent in my resignation to the first job I had after graduating from college. I currently have 55 minutes left before the 6 o’clock whistle blows for the last time and I do a surprisingly nimble James Bond leap and roll out of the office. I’m not entirely sure, but I think I might be getting a tad sentimental. Never before have so many co-workers asked me for my MSN! And for those of you who don’t really get MSN, it’s AIM, but foreign. Because really, only Americans (and mayhaps a Canadian or two) use AIM… hence the America OnLine Instant Messenger. But don’t go expecting a single solitary tear to go slipping down my cheek anytime soon. I will have new office bathrooms to blog about!
Always the planner, I have already lined up a new job. I will remain in the communications industry, moving away from PR in to marketing. For those of you who were unfortunate enough to be friends with me during my last semester of college, you might remember the always entertaining “capstone” (aka AU’s pet name for the evil senior thesis) writing process that involved many (ok, about 72) hours locked in a dark cave hopped up on some serious Red Bull, amongst other things, typing furiously and fearing that my incoherent thoughts might be misattributed to a person with a 1st grade reading level. Anyway, the point of that tangent is that my capstone was called “How to Market to 1.3 Billion New Customers: The Implications of SMS Marketing in China”. Well, my new office now only does SMS marketing, but in the nine months it took me to graduate, say goodbye, move to China, study Chinese, get a job, ruin some lives and quit that job, China’s mobile marketing landscape has pretty much grown by leaps and bounds and some other idioms I can no longer remember correctly because I don’t speak good English anymore. So while I have the basics down, I still have a lot to learn. Hopefully, not long from now, I will be a contributing member of the mobile marketing industry in the world’s most populous, and often most ridiculous, country. Ain’t life grand?
On a side note, I, along with my dear friend Kyle (aka Long Hai, aka Al, aka Karl, aka Red Panda, aka the Haley Joel Osment of China for his proclivity for seeing dead bodies… ), found out exactly what it is like to be animals at a zoo today while eating lunch in a restaurant with what I would categorize as too many windows. We, and several other foreigners (including a handsome British bloke with stereotypically rosy cheeks and a blonde curly-haired dining companion), attracted the interest of an elderly Chinese man who just couldn’t seem to get enough of our unslanted eyes, sharply pointed noses or Kyle’s red hair. I have new sympathy for animals trapped behind glass.
2 Comments
March 14, 2008 at 2:47 am
Can’t wait to see you…You are a rising star in the red galaxy!
March 15, 2008 at 12:19 am
Congrats on your new job!