I'm not sure that placing in the rankings for "Best Places to Work for Millenials" is any sort of selling point.

Microsoft, near Redmond Washington. A few years there and your resume is built. The people I've known who have worked there for them have generally had good things to say and some have moved on to extremely lucrative careers elsewhere.

Yes, they are the big bad monolith, but that just makes them one of the more secure places to put in time earning money.

The Northwest is a great place to be and I'm thinking of moving upstate here to get away from the mess in central California.

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Northeast corridor Boston to Baltimore and burbs, never a low demand for IT.

I'm not sure that placing in the rankings for "Best Places to Work for Millenials" is any sort of selling point.

Most of the IT opportunity around Dayton these days is defense-related, so a clearance is a pretty big boon if you want to look around here. There's also some healthcare IT options if you have some knowledge in that area.

Yeah, in areas with a lot of cleared work a clearance can be worth 25k/year vs a job that doesn't require it...

Contractors like people with clearances because its cheaper than getting a brand-new clearance from scratch.

When you leave a given agency, your clearance there is supposed to be inactivated, but this is not an adverse action. When you start a new job, they should request a new clearance. Even though your old clearance is inactive, that history will appear when they look at you for the new one, and "doesn't work here any more" is not an adverse reason for the removal of the old one. That makes it much easier to adjudicate the new clearance since not nearly as much re-investigation needs to be done. The less time between leaving the old position and obtaining the new one the better, since a recent already-completed background check minimizes additional work and speeds things up.

Getting a clearance can still be huge *** pain either because OPM is involved or because of screw-ups or confusion in the process (if you have multiple investigations open from different positions you applied for that's a common cause), but if you've had one in the past and no adverse information it helps a lot, and makes your employer happy.

Plenty of surburban areas in a lot of the places are affordable and packed with jobs you don't even need to commute into a city for, or if you do its a few days a week and the rest are remote days.

Like anywhere it's finding a company that works for you with that kind of stuff. I used to work remotely for Pfizer for 3 days out of the week (and they were only a 20 min commute and nowhere near the city - they are Collegeville, I live in Trooper if you want to see the distance). Dow is on that same campus, SEI is nearby, Iron Mountain, and a bunch of others and that's just within 3 miles.