That is a great place to be, and what I had always hoped to get out of a large engineering company. Part of why I gave my previous (and first) employer as long

That is a great place to be, and what I had always hoped to get out of a large engineering company. Part of why I gave my previous (and first) employer as long as I did was that I was hoping to reach that point with them, as the work was really interesting. When I realized it was never going to happen and I was going to be stuck as a cog in a classified program for the rest of my career I got the hell out[1]. My current, very small (but not startup) employer gives me all of the above except #3, #5, and #2 to the degree that our size limits it. After reading a few of your posts in the past, I've thought about applying up where you are now (I'm an EE doing nothing EE related in my day job). I'm not sure I want to live in Madison, though. [1] Took me two years, but I did it