It just ends here

When you end it, it doesn't mean the love/liking has ended as well. It could be for various other reasons - push or pull factors, that made you abandon this ship for another. Of course, its a painful decision. Things are so much easier if the love/liking has ceased.

When they recruited me, the purpose was to replace S and work as a team with Y. Exactly one month after my first day, its Y's last day. The intention was never to replace her. Now that Y has left, and S is still around. Its weird how things always doesn't turn out as planned or intended. Now, we are recruiting someone to replace Y.

Just like in 2006, when I was recruited to work as a team with SS so that we could get things going. A few days after I joined, SS tendered. (I wasn't supposed to replace him and his role just died a natural death. This kind of made my role challenging as well.) We met in Shanghai, had welcome lunch and soon followed by farewell dinners.

Maybe its me, maybe they don't want to work with me (nah, I do know the reasons). To them, it was a painful decision. To me, it was brief meetings/encounters and their words of kindness reassured my career choice.

It happened for every job change if I don't count the first one where I was a mere headcount (no replacement to talk about).