Greetings everyone!
Earlier this week, I received some good news. I unexpectedly got a very lucrative job offer, which I am very excited about.
This has a couple of side-effects. First, I now need to deal with a few contractual obligations for my current job, finish a handful of projects, within the next two months, as opposed to the eight months I originally had. Second, I need to make a lot of arrangements for a massive transition in my life, a small component of which is moving to the west coast. As a result, I now find myself once more with very little time, and a need to focus exclusively on real life.
For this reason, I have decided to completely cut off, among other things, NationStates. I am going to be taking a long-term LoA from NS, at least for the next eight months, but potentially longer (I'm not calling it a "retirement" as we all know these rarely work, but it's indeed close to that).
I resign as Minister of World Assembly Affairs, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as from the NPA and any Executive Staff positions I currently have. I also resign from the Security Council, as I am not going to be able to maintain any forum or endotarting activity. I will not resign my citizenship, but I will let it lapse 30 days from now.
I apologize for this abrupt departure. I promised the delegate that I would undertake and complete a few projects during this term, which now will not be happening. Similarly, I put the Regional Assembly through the ordeal of admitting me to the Security Council not once, not twice, but three times, only for me to resign a month later. I also want to apologize to the people I promised to appoint as my deputies but never did: Alta Italia, Separatist Peoples, Lord Lore, and Ramaeus. I am sorry to have kept you waiting all this time for nothing. I was looking forward to working with you, and there was a large and exciting agenda for the ministry. I hope you, either as deputies to my successor, or as Ministers yourselves, can see to completion this agenda I am now abandoning.
As I said above, this job offer came completely unexpectedly, and a month ago I could not imagine I would be forced to resign my positions, let alone leave the game. Unfortunately, if I stayed in NS, I would be at a real risk of jeopardizing an once-in-a-lifetime RL career opportunity, and I can't afford to do that. Everytime I have tried in the past to "limit" my activity while remaining in the game, I have always failed miserably. So, I need to make a clean break.
As I mentioned privately to the delegate, I will continue to maintain the mass-TG page and the scripted telegrams that I run for the region - I will also provide a way so that you can change access and telegrams without me. I am also hosting a few images, and those will continue to be available, unless Dropbox suddenly goes out of business. Other than these, I do not believe there is anything else that is currently run by me and needs to be passed on, but please let me know if there is and I'll take care of it.
I do not expect to come on IRC any time soon. However, many of you have me on skype, and some of you have my email, facebook and even phone. You are all welcome to contact me there.
Best regards,
r3n.
Earlier this week, I received some good news. I unexpectedly got a very lucrative job offer, which I am very excited about.
This has a couple of side-effects. First, I now need to deal with a few contractual obligations for my current job, finish a handful of projects, within the next two months, as opposed to the eight months I originally had. Second, I need to make a lot of arrangements for a massive transition in my life, a small component of which is moving to the west coast. As a result, I now find myself once more with very little time, and a need to focus exclusively on real life.
For this reason, I have decided to completely cut off, among other things, NationStates. I am going to be taking a long-term LoA from NS, at least for the next eight months, but potentially longer (I'm not calling it a "retirement" as we all know these rarely work, but it's indeed close to that).
I resign as Minister of World Assembly Affairs, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, as well as from the NPA and any Executive Staff positions I currently have. I also resign from the Security Council, as I am not going to be able to maintain any forum or endotarting activity. I will not resign my citizenship, but I will let it lapse 30 days from now.
I apologize for this abrupt departure. I promised the delegate that I would undertake and complete a few projects during this term, which now will not be happening. Similarly, I put the Regional Assembly through the ordeal of admitting me to the Security Council not once, not twice, but three times, only for me to resign a month later. I also want to apologize to the people I promised to appoint as my deputies but never did: Alta Italia, Separatist Peoples, Lord Lore, and Ramaeus. I am sorry to have kept you waiting all this time for nothing. I was looking forward to working with you, and there was a large and exciting agenda for the ministry. I hope you, either as deputies to my successor, or as Ministers yourselves, can see to completion this agenda I am now abandoning.
As I said above, this job offer came completely unexpectedly, and a month ago I could not imagine I would be forced to resign my positions, let alone leave the game. Unfortunately, if I stayed in NS, I would be at a real risk of jeopardizing an once-in-a-lifetime RL career opportunity, and I can't afford to do that. Everytime I have tried in the past to "limit" my activity while remaining in the game, I have always failed miserably. So, I need to make a clean break.
As I mentioned privately to the delegate, I will continue to maintain the mass-TG page and the scripted telegrams that I run for the region - I will also provide a way so that you can change access and telegrams without me. I am also hosting a few images, and those will continue to be available, unless Dropbox suddenly goes out of business. Other than these, I do not believe there is anything else that is currently run by me and needs to be passed on, but please let me know if there is and I'll take care of it.
I do not expect to come on IRC any time soon. However, many of you have me on skype, and some of you have my email, facebook and even phone. You are all welcome to contact me there.
Best regards,
r3n.
