Flexability - I am getting paid to do my job, not be in the office 5 days a week 8 hours a day (even though I usually am). This means if my Sig-O has a doctors appointment I can go with her, even if it takes half or all of the day.

Code - Although I don't have it in my contract my employers seem to be of the mind that if I write a perl script that I use often that helps me that I can post it (like here) or GPL it if I want to, or at least so far.

Education - One thing that I really enjoy re: my workplace is that they really are open to your learning new things. One of the things on my general todo list when I first got here was "Learn Perl." There wasn't a date I had to "know it" by, but it was just a general thing they wanted me to pick up.

Benefits - Work to get a PPO, and if it isn't offered see if you can have them somehow help you get individual insurance with a PPO of your choice. Also, try and get the best mental health benefits you can - it seems people in our line of work tend to not make use of these benefits as much as they should.

Good luck in your new job and congradulations.

-Shane