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title: "New Job"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/4/new-job.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/4/new-job.html"
published: "2004-03-04T15:37:00"
updated: "2004-03-04T15:37:00"
tags: ["Off Topic"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "Yeah, I've been busy. Real busy. That is, I no longer can get up at 11:00 and go to sleep at 6 AM kinda busy. On Sunday I've signed up to start a full time job at Magen , a Microsoft Technology Center (not Microsoft,…"
usage: "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/"
---

# New Job

By Roy Osherove March 4, 2004 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic)

**Historical article** · Originally published March 4, 2004; technical details may be outdated.

Yeah, I've been busy. **Real** busy. That is, I no longer can get up at 11:00 and go to sleep at 6 AM kinda busy.

On Sunday I've signed up to start a full time job at [Magen](http://www.magen.com/), a Microsoft Technology Center (not Microsoft, but a private company) located in Israel as a dev lead. I started on Monday and ever since I've been heads down trying to get into the main stream and start swimming with the big sharks. Alas, I had no time to blog or even _read_ blogs for the past week :(

However, that does not mean I will stop. **Nope**. One thing that I _insisted_ on was the that I would be able to continue my community efforts. So, you'll still see me on the [17th of this month at the C# user's group](http://www.ildotnet.com/), I'll keep grooming and nurturing my new [web-baby](http://www.ildotnet.com/), I'll be at Tech-Ed, and continue to have the fun I had when I was on my own. Only now, from this place, I'll be able to “jump” to new heights of understanding, resources and overall level of work. It feels like an amazing opportunity and I **really** don't wanna screw this up. So far it's been a rush of a zillion things to learn, a million people to meet and 100,000 directories to remember. 

Need..sleep..

## More in Off Topic

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

- Mar 11, 2004

    ### [1001 posts](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/11/1001-posts.html)

- Mar 5, 2004

    ### [MSDN Connected in Israel? hopefully.](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/3/5/msdn-connected-in-israel-hopefully.html)

- Feb 27, 2004

    ### [Happy Birthday (or: throwing your wife from an airplane for good causes)](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/27/happy-birthday-or-throwing-your-wife-from-an-airplane-for-go.html)

- Feb 25, 2004

    ### [Thanks for the System.Web.Mail FAQ, Dave](https://osherove.com/blog/2004/2/25/thanks-for-the-systemwebmail-faq-dave.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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