So, apparently one of my jobs failed to tell me that it was a cleared position.

Here’s my issue…I haven’t held a security clearance in almost 10 years, and I honestly have zero intention of going through that process again.

Scratch one job off of my list.

Also, the Engineering Manager job that I really wanted said no…with zero feedback as to why they rejected me after two really good interviews.

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Since my contract at my current company is coming up in the end of September, I started looking for a new gig this month. A few things were really important to me:

• Finding a job that had some upward mobility.
• Finding a job that had decent benefits
• Finding a job that didn’t really require me to go to an office every day.
• Finding a job that seemed appropriate for me (no Microsoft, yes Linux, yes Open Source, etc).

Before this, I did a few things to make my job search a little bit easier:

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As many of you know, I don’t make it a secret that I’m not an amazing front-end guy. However, since I have a mantra of “test all the things” that I’m working on, when I have to do front end work, it’s my goal to test everything.

I start by using sitespeed.io for testing the page load and performance times of my application. This is critical in ensuring that the code that I’m writing is performant, and doesn’t introduce any critical latency bugs to the application. I can integrate sitespeed.io into my gitlab workflows – which is super critical, as I can reject any builds that are not performant, and a video and screen shot of the home page (and any associated pages that I’m testing) are part of the artifacts created: this enables me to provide “page level diffs” showing the content on the page that has been changed. The one thing that Sitespeed cannot do, however, is testing functionality. You’re limited to grabbing pages via URL, and can’t pass data into forms for posting.

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