I worked as an ELT resource person mainly for the eastern region for Oxford University Press (OUP) for about seven years where, I had some wonderful experiences, which I will share later. There was a time when there was hardly any work and the honorarium was also not increasing. Then came an offer from Pearson with a better honorarium but the area of work was vastly reduced. It was only the northern part of West Bengal generally known as North Bengal. The offer was also more lucrative as I could work for any other Book House and they would put my credentials on their website for anyone to offer me any assignment. With Oxford, I was not allowed to accept assignments from any other Book House. Then came the COVID pandemic and Pearson could not give me any work for over two years, whereas Oxford gave a lot of online assignments to my erstwhile colleagues. I was elated to receive a call from Oxford in early June this year asking me to rejoin OUP. I was simply elated. There was no saying no. I have already been approached for at least two assignments.