[rootbear]

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is in Greenbelt, Maryland, just outside the Beltway. I was a contractor there, mostly as a Unix and Linux system administrator, for nearly 30 years. It's a great place to work, but the salaries won't be as high as you'd get in private industry. Commuting from Dupont Circle might be a pain, but it's a reverse commute, so that helps. (Most commuter come into the city in the morning, not out of it.)

[mixmastamyk]

Contractor for thirty years?

[rootbear]

Yep. I worked for a half dozen different contracting companies over those years and in three different groups. I was at Goddard two separate times, with a three year break in the Real World in between. My two stints together amount to just short of thirty years. I retired last July.

[mixmastamyk]

Yes thanks. Guess I was wondering about the ethics of why that would be the case, rather than the details.