I am going to start looking for a full-time job pretty soon, since I am about one year away from graduating with a Computer Science major.

In addition to software, I am really passionate about music; I'd like to try to combine these two passions in my professional life.

However, I'm not sure if that alone will be satisfying -- there are a lot of other factors to consider, for example and in no particular order:

• location: do you like the city you live in?
• work-life balance: do you have enough time for yourself and your loved ones?
• technical challenge: are you learning continuously?
• pay & opportunity: are you making enough? do you have opportunities to get promotions and advance your career?
• culture: do you believe in the people you work with and in what you're working on together?

For you, what's the single most important thing? What could you not do without?