Things are all settled down. I am ready to leave my job

I decide to leave my job on Jan 31. Since February 1, I will give all my time and effort toward my PhD study.

• The decision was made during mid-October, right after I came back from the annual academic conference CCCN'09.
• Graduate school approved my application to be a UGC-funded full time PhD student in the earlier December. In other words, I secured a funding and I was ready to go.
• On Dec 24, I submitted a resignation letter to the company's supervisor.

About 20 months ago (May 2008 to be exact), I decided to do the PhD study in part-time mode and joined this company. Now I fall-back everything~!

My mindset have been changed during these 20 months of work. I don't know where should I start if I have to explain everything in details....

Anyway, it doesn't seem to be a good idea using my own resources (time, effort, opportunities, etc) to please others~ Looking good among my peers is really cool. I tried, but I am tired about tracing so many vague definitions of "looking good."

It is now the time my vague definition of "looking good" comes to the surface!! Let me focus my own toward my perspective of looking good.

I am sorry that I had been long treating research as my interest only. Now, research is not only my interest, it is going to be my bowl of rice.

I admit that counting my entire life on research is risky. But now I am on my own, I guess I am ok to take risk!!

In the CCCN' 09 conference, I found most of the research students had advanced a lot from the past year. I am the one who lacked behind the most.

I should thank my job in fact. Interestingly, my current job allows me to see more the connection between academic research and engineering projects. It allows me to know more about equipment vendors and what their PhD staffs are doing.

I am looking forward to my full time PhD study~ I am excited about having an entire control on my schedule. Following is part of my todo list~ ^^

• Put my entire effort to work out my deflection routing ideas
• Read research journals more often
• Read telecomasia (or similar articles) more often
• Learn to play a music instrument
• Have more time to sleep

I miss all the friends I made in this company. I learn how does an ISP work from inside-out. I see what does it mean by inter-personal communication skills. I guess the working style from company and from academic are going to have a good mix inside my body, and I should be able to due with people with even more different background or types.

Friends~ I know some of you may not completely agree with my decision. Nevertheless, I am not born to be a perfect guy, and certainly I have to make some mistake during my life. Forgive me, and give me your support as a kind of sympathy. If you second my decision, please keep it no matter what. I am not sure if my act is worth to be seconded continuously! I won't change again as I can't go back anymore.

Go ahead~!!!