I’m already in the WESTern country, what I mean is moving to west of Canada, Vancouver. Here is the message I describe the reason and my feeling for this decision to my teammates at work:
Family
For many times, my wife and I would like to live closer to her family. I said many time, because sometime we want and sometime we don’t want. :> Also, if you didn’t know, we are also expecting another baby at the end of Nov. Yes, will be another cchan, I promise. Actually, I have registered a domain called, http://cchanfamily.com . We don’t know the sex yet, will find out at the end of this month. In Chinese culture, having a senior people at home is like a valuable thing, so we want to try to take this advantage to live with our parents. In particular, I grew up with my grandma and I hope my 2 kids will like that kind of childhood.
Dream
In the past 10 years living in Saskatoon, my wife and I had achieved a lot of dreams (education, job, own family, house), but there is one dream left, living in Vancouver. It is nothing about the big city; it is because we feel like Vancouver is our home town. It was the first place when I arrived Canada and I lived there for 4 years before I came to Saskatoon. Also, my wife and I met there in a college. It is just a lot memory. In the future, may be one day while I’m in Vancouver, I will remember all the good time and good people in Saskatoon and will set a dream coming back to live. :>
Career
I have been working in several types of job in the past, restaurant, sales and software development in few cities. At the end you still need to work with good or bad people. I never actually went through a tough time to find a job, even my current job in Point2. I got this job because my friend had an interview with Point2 in June 2001 but he decided to move to Ontario, so he passed this opportunity to me. Yes, in Point2, there is always a great opportunity for everyone to growth. Initially, one of the reasons I accepted this job is because I want to develop in JAVA programming language, I even had a BC license plate, JAVA, and SK license pate, JAVA SK. I was actually mad someone already took the JAVA in Saskatchewan. So, in early 2002, I had a chance to try VS.Net and that was how I have been working in Microsoft technologies for 4 years. I’m also lucky that I have been leading the talent and hard working people as technical team leader. I have been widening my skills in past 5 years. In the nearest future, I will still work in .Net. In addition, because I strongly believe the potential of current project with LendingTree which is different than other projects in the past, I will continue purse my excellence in Point2 and the great work environment and people.
Thank you for all the support and good work in the past and I wish we will have good working relationship in the future.
Chris C.