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My resignation letter

Caracas, November 14, 2007

Ms. XXX
Superintendent

Dear XXX:
My three-year tenure at ECA has been one of the most challenging and rewarding periods of my career, and I regret having to make this difficult announcement: please consider this as my resignation from my position as your Information Systems Specialist, effective today November 14. I will continue at ECA until December 14th, which will be my last day at work, according to what Venezuelan labor law states.

Although I have enjoyed working at ECA and have learned a great deal, I would really like to operate in a wider IT sphere, and since the opportunities provided at ECA to people like me are limited, I feel that I should seek a position that allows newer challenges for me as an informatics engineer where I can better take advantage of my skills and continue to grow professionally. Not only have I enjoyed working at ECA but I have reinforced my team-working skills, among others; I have mastered how a really good tech department should be run and that’s something I’ll never forget.

But, as you know, my job has not changed in the three years I have been at ECA and I feel the need to grow professionally as well as financially, so I have felt compelled to explore outside job possibilities and new challenges.

I have been doing some research in the IT spheres in Israel, nowadays called the Silicon Wadi, due to its high development in Information Technology, and all my contacts over there have stressed the ever-continuous demand for multilingual IT professionals. Also, I have been investigating the opportunities in Germany and they also look promising, so I think I will have no difficulty finding a new position but deciding which one I will take.

Thank you for everything during all this time.

Sincerely,
Carlos Manuel Colina
Information Technology Specialist

CC: XYZ, Director of Technology

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not my day..

Definitely I am getting to the very bottom of the abyss.. Today my stegrandma (my dad's stepmom, who raised him because his mom died when he was 4 years old) died, and I am very sorry for not being there, but also I dreamt of her at the precise hour she was leaving this world for a better (?) one: At 4 am today I told my friend Stefanie, in the dream, that my grandma (I couldn't recognize which of them) had jumped off the balcony. Also, My cellphone's two screens stopped working, so I cannot see who calls, what the text messages say or worse, even getting my contacts to call from a landline. I went to Digi-shit and the phone's warranty expired, so to my surprise, I asked to have my loyalty bonus points traded for a phone, and they tell me I am NOT registered in the system, after 2 years of being a premium postpaid user, paying a fortune every month! Bastards...Oh, and I am still homeless, working with anti-semite bosses, and the letters from the Synagogue and the Israeli Association are still in process! and all the stress is weakening my system's defenses and I am developing laryngitis, again :-(

I hope I can bounce back from all this..I will, eventually.