…and like that, a 5 year contractor position is gone.

Oh well. I’m job hunting again right now, so, this should be fun.

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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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