My days of Kept-hood are over

Mr. Leger - reporting for duty. This morning I accepted the role of Sales Manager for Questex Media's Enterprise Innovation publication here in Asia. Enterprise Innovation is like Computerworld (in fact, the company publishes CW in Hong Kong). I'll be selling print and online advertising, event sponsorships and custom publishing projects with "Asia" as my territory. I start the 11th. - It's been 11 months since I've had to go to work in an "office." Hopefully I can re-acquaint myself with the office environment, otherwise it's going to be pretty damn interesting. What do you mean sweatpants aren't business casual? You were serious about that 9-6 thing? EVERYday? What do you mean I can't play videogames here? But 11:00am is when I watch Price is Right - reschedule that meeting!

I'm excited and nervous - this is a job that I know I can do, and do well. . . . at home. It's a mystery as to how effective I'll be as a salesman in Singapore - this we'll find out quick - and I'm excited about the challenge. While my humor and general degree of disrespect, sarcasm and verbal debauchery is tolerated at home, CELEBRATED on this blog, and a source of great pride for me personally, well, there's a smurfin' good chance it ain't gonna work as good up in here. Oh and -  Questex Media's WW HQ is in. . . . Newton, MA. Boom goes the dynamite.

But - you know what this means - I get to start planning a Bali trip!

This afternoon I took a quick SMRT ride to see where the office is. Turns out it's only one stop beyond Kellie's office. The office is in a very interesting area just outside of Little India. My building appears to be the ONLY office type building in the neighborhood. Good news is that there are tons of places to get lunch, and even more places to get fabric. SWEET. It actually seems like it'll be a fun place to explore on lunch breaks, it's just a lot different from where we are and where Kellie works. Oh come on, what's to worry about, it's not like I will be working near Baghdad Street.


Street near my new office.