how it all started

February 27th - Zurich, Lobby of Zürichberg-Hotel, around 21:00

Today I have decided to resign from a well-paid and career-promising consulting job after long months of dissapointment and thinking. i recall having talked about this resign with friends and family for more than a year and remember that some of them stopped believing i ever would :)

This tuesday evening i am not excited anymore, rather i feel calm - the decision is taken and it feels good, relieving and right. i have written and signed my resignation letter many times these last february days - how frightening it felt to hold this paper in my hands in the beginning. i trembled when i test-signed it the first time...crazy.

This evening though i enter the lobby, heading to the reception desk, this signed letter in my hand, ready to have it faxed to HR right after check-in...I have Haiko on the cellphone..we start talking while i commentlessly handover the letter to the receptionist "please fax this to the above number" -she realizes the content and stares at me with eyes wide-open "but...." . I look up to her, smiling "its ok...just send it" - no emotions any more - decision taken, i will be out of this consulting by the end of May. Exactly 2 years - i remember my parents saying "you should not go before 2 years" - Punktlandung.