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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So what exactly are FSOs doing besides living the expat life with tax payer funded servents?[/quote]

You could actually google this question and get several reasonable answers. Why do you assume the FSO's, who run the offices in the embassies abroad, and particularly in many third world countries where life isn't easy, are living the "expat life?" - I mean, what you are describing is what the appointees to places like the Vatican, Monoco or in the case of Kim Gilfoyle, Greece, are doing. They are not the rank and file workers.[/quote]

What’s the point?

You’re essentially trying to argue with the modern day equivalent of the Know Nothing party.

These are people who revel in ignorance and isolationism.[/quote]

Some people are trying to learn. What does a FSO do that's so special they need their own test? For foreign adoptions? Do they make sure the kid really is an orphan, if you know what I mean...[/quote]

The FSO process is rigorous. Multiple choice test.  If you pass, written essays. If you pass, in-person group test to observe dynamics etc.  if you pass, then you go Thru clearance process.  Then after all of that,  you MAY get invited to a training class called A-100 assuming there is funding.

Took about 18 months from the time I took first test to getting an a-100 offer. (Turned it down for family reasons). Met a lot of interesting people at all phases of their careers and with different backgrounds and politics aiming for it.

TBH we should bring back the civil service exam more broadly.  Get rid of the DEI veterans preference.

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