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title: "Overworked"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/3/overworked.md"
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published: "2003-06-03T09:34:00"
updated: "2003-06-03T09:34:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "If you're wondering why I'm being so skimpy on the posts lately(all 3 of you), its because I'm going through a pretty rough week - A tight schedule, some very long Job interviews and coding challenges , and lack of…"
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# Overworked

By Roy Osherove June 3, 2003 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published June 3, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

If you're wondering why I'm being so skimpy on the posts lately(all 3 of you), its because I'm going through a pretty rough week - A tight schedule, some very long Job interviews and coding challenges , and lack of sleep  . all these things take their toll. Plus, I'm trying to finish an article - my first "real" article (i.e - $$) so I'm pretty stressed out.

I worry that the more I'll post, the more rants you'll hear, which is not why you came here, right? Anyway, Hopefully I'll have something to contribute in the next couple of days.

## More in Off Topic

[All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

- Jun 6, 2003

    ### [Phew... Free Time, At Last.](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/6/phew-free-time-at-last.html)

- Jun 4, 2003

    ### [IVBUG meeting went well](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/4/ivbug-meeting-went-well.html)

- Jun 2, 2003

    ### [In-Your-Face](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/2/in-your-face.html)

- Jun 2, 2003

    ### [Medieval Times](https://osherove.com/blog/2003/6/2/medieval-times.html)


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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

### Sites

- [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership.
- [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts.
- [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin.
- [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model.
- [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps.
- [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes).

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### License

Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). License: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/