Last Friday Sep 28th 2012 was my last day at ITAGroup. I felt so weird the whole day. It has been a long journey of 6 years and 9 months with the company. I got my job in Sep 2005, but joined on Dec 27th 2005 since I was going to India to get married. I joined them one month after I got married.
My family life and my ITA life grew together. I really enjoyed working there and will miss lots of people from there. Des Moines is a small place, I am sure that I will meet them again.
It was an emotional decision, but still I had to make it as I wanted to move on with my career. Last day, I did not want to cry in the office. So, I did not give much thought about what’s going on. Just packed my stuff, talked to many people , visited Building 2 and said bye to my friends. Linda and Ana took me to lunch on Friday. And Adam scheduled an Happy Hour for me at 34’s Sports Bar & Grill in Valley West Mall. Usually I don’t go to any Happy Hour parties as I do not drink, but I went this time and drank couple of lemonade J. Even my friend Ann asked Adam whether I am really going to my own party OR these guys are celebrating my departure (without me) at the bar J. Fun!
I really had fun for couple of hours from 3:30 till 6:45 PM. I went home (Vijay was mad as I was late) and had to rush to Yatin’s Birthday party, had food and played Taboo for a long time. We came back home around 3:45 AM and slept at 4 AM. Vijay asked few questions about my last day, but I felt he did not really understand how I felt L. In a way, its fine as I did not have to think through lot of things.
I think I am handling this transition by not thinking about it too much. Not sure whether this “Escapism” strategy is good or not. But it works J. I started my new consulting job on Oct 1st Monday and did not have enough/much time to think about or analyze anything. I am taking this as a positive opportunity to explore and learn new things. Hope it goes well.
I really want to say my special thanks to Adam Brucker for organizing my Happy Hour party. And Many thanks to Andrew Morris, Matt Vande Vorde, Jarod Trecker, Matt Khalil, Jeremy Sims, Mitch Lake, Bobby Dineen, Yousef Alzawaidah, Tim Fisher, Naveen Konda, Matt Drey, Ryan Franz, Jolli Wihlm, Adam Brucker, Linda Dickerson, Srini Kadiam, Joseph Hicks & Ann Kindwall for stopping by at my Happy Hour and made my evening a memorable one.
I will MISS YOU Guys !!!
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