{"id":743,"date":"2006-12-16T08:31:23","date_gmt":"2006-12-16T08:31:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/?p=743"},"modified":"2006-12-19T22:56:06","modified_gmt":"2006-12-19T22:56:06","slug":"moving-out-and-moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thekua.com\/rant\/2006\/12\/moving-out-and-moving-on\/","title":{"rendered":"Moving Out and Moving On!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest news I have this week is that I&#8217;m going to be living in <strong>India<\/strong> for about 6 months starting from January. I&#8217;ll be taking on a new role with other instructors running training and induction classes for people that join <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thoughtworks.com\">Thoughtworks<\/a>. I&#8217;m really looking forward to the experience and I have a lot of support from my work colleagues and sponsor. I hope the people I will be working with will be able to capitalise on all my experiences I&#8217;ve had working on the many projects I&#8217;ve been on, and I think I will be able to refine a lot of the techniques and approaches I use when coaching teams and pair programming with people. I will also get a huge kick of working with people that are genuinely interested in learning and sharing and like most projects I&#8217;ve been on they&#8217;ll no doubt be plenty of fun along the way. <\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a big change for me once again after moving to the UK, but I do plan on returning to the UK after six months and going through the paces again to find another place to live in London. It&#8217;s an exciting time and though there&#8217;s plenty of stuff to fit into the week before Christmas, it&#8217;s going to be completely worth it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The biggest news I have this week is that I&#8217;m going to be living in India for about 6 months starting from January. I&#8217;ll be taking on a new role with other instructors running training and induction classes for people that join Thoughtworks. 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