My Perfect Job

The following is a list of things that I am looking for in my next (dream) job and things my future employer may want to know about me:

Work Environment, Location, and Travel
- Regular office/cubical work is not for me. The flexibility of remote work is great.
- Regular travel is appreciated (up to once or twice per month; up to five weeks per quarter, preferably not back to back weeks).
- Most work weeks should be around 40 hours (but you will get no complaints when outages or weekend migrations occur).
- Flexible scheduling: I will attend all necessary meetings and I’m almost always available online, even when not working. Sometimes I like to work early morning, and sometimes I like to work late evenings.
- I am a Mac guy that does a lot of virtual machine, Docker container work. My desired workstation is a Mac Book Pro with an at least a 500gb SSD and at least 16gb (preferably 32gb) of RAM.
Project Management
- I do decent project management. If there is a project management void within a project, I tend to step into the role.
- I am good at juggling/prioritizing 4-8 projects on my own.
- If there is no clear cut priority, I stress when multiple projects are due around the same time.
Work style
- I like to have several projects of different types to switch between.
- I am an early adopter; I like to find new things and work them into processes where applicable. Once I have mastered, incorporated, and evangelized the new tech, I’m ready to move on to something new.
- I can code, but I am not a coder. I generally consider myself a “process efficiency engineer/architect”.
Philosophies
- I love making inefficient processes efficient.
- I ask “why do we/you do that” a lot.
- I believe in Open Source Software (OSS): using it, contributing to it, and starting new projects.
- I believe in internal and external collaboration.
- I hate politics, turf wars, and power games.

Almost everything on this list should be considered desired/negotiable, but this is me.

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