--- title: "Trading Places" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/25/trading-places.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/25/trading-places.html" published: "2007-10-25T18:04:38" updated: "2007-10-25T18:04:38" tags: ["Off Topic"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "You may have heard rumors about me. They're all true, but this one is a new one, and it's true as well. I'll be leaving my place at SELA group on January. It was a great time being there and I learned a lot ,but I feel…" 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/" --- # Trading Places By Roy Osherove October 25, 2007 In [Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) **Historical article** · Originally published October 25, 2007; technical details may be outdated. You may have heard rumors about me. They're all true, but this one is a new one, and it's true as well. I'll be leaving my place at [SELA group](http://www.sela.co.il/) on January. It was a great time being there and I learned a lot ,but I feel that I need to do different things and get my hands dirty more as part of my job. That why I've also finished my current work at [Mainsoft](http://www.mainsoft.com/) (I had a contract there for 4 months). **What will I do?** I'm not sure yet. I'm considering a lot of interesting ideas to do with my time. If you think you have a great place that I could fit into with my knowledge areas (or even something I don't know that much about but could learn) I'm always interested in listening. **possible things I'm considering:** \- get to have enough time to finish my [never ending story](http://the.artofunittesting.com/) while still having a good job \- Join forces with a company I've known for a long time and love their products \- Join forces with old friends who do consulting gigs \- stay on my own (as I did before SELA) \- Go abroad and live there for a year or two with my wife and kid - adventures is a thing I never regret. \- Open my own startup - I have a great idea. Could be a great adventure. \- Find a great company with a great agile team I can be part of \- Be a CTO in some company that would pay me well and let me do my own thing after hours (yes I have a big ego, but an offer like this is on the table..) \- Maybe you have a place I could fit into? (I don't have a US Work Visa, nor a degree - So if you're there you'll have to help me get a visa to work there...) ## More in Off Topic [All posts in Off Topic](https://osherove.com/blog/category/off-topic) - Jan 17, 2008 ### [\[very off topic\] I can haz a site](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/1/17/very-off-topic-i-can-haz-a-site.html) - Jan 1, 2008 ### [New Computer Smell](https://osherove.com/blog/2008/1/1/new-computer-smell.html) - Oct 12, 2007 ### [Google Mail For Domains Premium just got bigger storage](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/10/12/google-mail-for-domains-premium-just-got-bigger-storage.html) - Aug 22, 2007 ### [World's Funniest Youtube Video](https://osherove.com/blog/2007/8/22/worlds-funniest-youtube-video.html) --- ## 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). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### 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/