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[quote=Anonymous]I worked for one of the groups involved in this discussion, & guided my kid to a parallel career.

There are federal law enforcement agencies other than the FBI, & other intelligence agencies besides NSA & CIA. So do some research about the options. Some of these overlap with the military, which is one reason military personnel (current & former) are overrepresented.

The importance of having lived a fairly clean life cannot be stressed enough. If there has been drug use, criminal activity, or unusual contact with people from foreign countries, it complicates the all-important security clearance process.

They will talk to friends, neighbors, & co-workers to see if you are odd in any way. My kid did a semester abroad & they even talked to a family in that country whose children my kid gave English lessons to.

Getting treated for mental health issues doesn’t automatically disqualify people, but it’s just one more thing you will have to explain in detail & probably show documentation of. It’s pretty much the more interesting your life has been (meeting a wide variety of people, moving often, changing jobs frequently, & traveling abroad), the more complicated the security clearance process is.[/quote]

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