Yesterday I gave notice at Xero, my last day will be mid February (15/02).
It’s been fun working with the team of people at Xero, but I just want my own time back. I won’t go into more detail around the reasons for my leaving Xero but we part ways on friendly terms.
I’ve been getting more and more into Ruby again and I really like that language. So I’m mostly interested in jobs that will allow me to use those dynamic languages. I can now take some time off to finish the book I’m writing and to do some coding on a couple of things I have in mind.
Ideal places for me to work would be a place that practices Agile development et al. I’ll be going back to contracting probably unless somebody makes me a really great offer 
yeah, I’m thinking about contracting when I get back from the UK. I can’t see a reason why I want to be a permi again…..
Sounds like it was fun there tho…. spill if you feel like it
I’m pretty sure you will be remembered at Xero.
I personally don’t like contracting, mainly because unless you have a lot of expenses that you can detract from your earnings, you end up working 40% for you, and 60% to pay taxes, health, retirement and a lot more that you almost never get back (at least in Italy).
Maybe a better country like Belgium or Norway you pay taxes but get back things. Or in NZ you don’t have anything, but at least you pay only 30%, not 60%.
Hi Ivan,
So how do you see the future of Xero from an insiders perspective?
I’m leaving Xero because I want to investigate my ideas around IronRuby, Silverlight and MVC further.
Feel free to get in touch if you are ever in Sydney.
I like contracting for the simple reason that you have freedom, you have the choice of when to work and what projects you work on and implement your won ideas.
No more working for “the man” slaving away on projects for which your boss always gets the credit.