I left the intelligence community and it was a pain in the ass. There are portions of my career that I simply can't talk about. My first job out was the worst.

I left the intelligence community and it was a pain in the ass. There are portions of my career that I simply can't talk about. My first job out was the worst. Easily half of the "tell me about a time when you.." questions required me to be vague and speak about skills instead of projects, people, customers or goals. I was lucky because the CEO of that company was a friend of a friend and they did a number of classified projects themselves. If it had been all civilians or non-IC connected firm, it would have been awful. As a reaction to all that, I went deep into the open source community and blogging with the goal of always having projects and a portfolio I could talk about and show. Best decision I ever made.