[Rhodes22-list] Reply to Bill, Michael, Dave, Rummy, Michael, Nick, ...

[DCLewis1 at aol.com]

Michael,
 
Regarding looking for work in WDC, forget NSA, it will take the govt a  year 
to hire you for anything, let alone NSA.  There are multiple  beltway bandits 
- many of them reputable - who really do a lot (some would say  most) of the 
governments work, and they can hire quickly.  I encourage  you to consider 
them.  Also, there is a significant private tech presence  in the area.  For 
example the area is headquarters for Marriot, AES, etc -  nothing on the scale of 
NYC, but it's here.  So don't just lock in on NSA,  the area has much more - 
and it's growing, and it's relatively stable.
 
FYI, a non-US origin spouse is not a stopper for a standard  clearance, but 
there are multiple places (e.g. NIH, NASA, NIST, etc and the  contractors that 
support them) where you will not need a clearance.  If you  decide to look, I 
recommend you look at non-defense and non-homeland-insecurity  organizations 
where you won't need a clearance.  Also, there  are a  bunch of private 
companies (e.g. MicroStrategy) that might be of interest.
 
You will need a spell checker however.
 
Dave.