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How is the State Dept. with families? Would I be able to go from post to post with my wife & kids?
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Vilerat posted:Yes of course. They also offer spouse employment opportunities and they run some of the best private schools available. I feel retarded for asking that since it is in the FAQ on the site that I neglected to read until after I posted. Hmmm. I am also a vet and finishing up my last year of law school. I have always been pretty dead-set on JAG, but this also sounds like a very intriguing opportunity that I actually knew almost nothing about, despite having an acquaintance who does exactly this. I'll have to look further into this.
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Smeef posted:Has anyone received scheduling information back yet? Considering how buggy the initial sign-up was, I'm wondering if it got hosed up. I haven't heard jack about the FSOT... signed up about a month ago.
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Got my invitation to take the test, signed up for an Oct. 3 date.
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SWATJester posted:poo poo I have heard nothing yet, no invitation. How did it arrive (email vs. snail)? I got it via email. Check your spam folder/trash for any email from "fsot@act.org"
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Sep 7, 2009 04:53
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SWATJester posted:poo poo, nothing yet from ACT about dates or sitting for the test, is this bad? I heard or read somewhere that they're staggering test seat invitations throughtout the month of September so I wouldn't panic just yet, but you could always give ACT a call and see what is up, right?
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Gravel Gravy posted:Also, should I start cleaning up my Facebook account now? Have some photos in Russia and some of them are less than professional. How about you (and everyone else in the drat world) just realize that Facebook is for you and your friends only and set everything to private so nobody can look at your poo poo without being your friend, or tag you in poo poo without your permission? It takes 5 minutes to do and I am absolutely baffled as to why people do not do it. I'm a professional, but I like to party and I like Facebook too. There's no reason to "clean up" your Facebook as long as it is set to highest privacy settings and your default photo isn't of you puking while riding backwards on a donkey. I'm of the belief that work life and private life are separate worlds and what I do on my off time (provided it's not illegal or unsavory, and I'm not going around saying I represent my employer) is none of my employer's business. Unfortunately, potential employers don't seem to understand those boundaries and will try to get all up in your Facebook. You should do what you can to prevent it though. I didn't mean this to be an angry diatribe but I hate how you have to pretend you're some sort of robot to get a job these days. Defleshed fucked around with this message at 17:05 on Sep 10, 2009 |
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SWATJester posted:Marine happy hours? Tell me more (I'm ex-Army, wouldn't mind drinking with Marines). As a former Marine, I wouldn't mind drinking with Marines either!
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Sep 18, 2009 19:17
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Took the FSOT this afternoon. Was easy as poo poo!
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Oct 4, 2009 00:27
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xanthig posted:Don't be fooled, it's sole purpose it to get rid of the bottom 50% of applicants. It's only as hard as it needs to be. Yeah, I can see that. Especially looking around at the dumbfounded looking mouth-breathing "Joe College" types that were there.
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SWATJester posted:Just took the FSOT today. Took me almost exactly 2 hours from when I arrived until I signed out to leave. This was pretty much my exact experience last weekend, although my knowledge base section was light on history (bad for me) and heavy on geography (also bad for me) although I am pretty sure I did just fine on it. What threw me were the several questions that seemed to be composed entirely of bullshit corporate motivational jargon-speak. e.g. If you are supervising an employee who has high normative values for motivation and low normative values for cohesive team member paradigm shifting, do you: a.) think outside the box b.) going forward, seek the motivational core of your teams shifting point c.) Take a poo poo, smoke a joint d.) give the guy a raise Obviously I am exaggerating but when I read it I felt like not only did I have no loving clue whatthe answer was, but neither would anyone else so it was cool.
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Pompous Rhombus posted:There are a few management books on the reading list of the study guide that I figured I should read up on, since I've only tangentially studied that sort of thing. I tried cracking one of them and ugh, I'll just wing it on that section. Common sense and a decent vocabulary can take you pretty far on a lot of those questions, I think. You're correct. I know nothing of the things they were talking about, but you could pretty easily deduce the answer they were looking for if you are reasonably intelligent. I was remarking more on how inane and non-indictative of anything the questions seemed.
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Business of Ferrets posted:Of course, I didn't take it, so I can't tell what is accurate and what is sarcasm, so will leave it up to the judgment of individual posters not to include anything that could give others undue advantage (questions are reused, so the NDA holds even after the test is administered). I thought it was pretty obvious that my question was exaggerated in order to be funny (even if it was eerily on point...) If government spooks have gotten to the level where they are hanging around SA to see if I violate the NDA, there's no way I'm getting in anyway because one of 'em surely saw me masturbating on the bus the other day.
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Oct 7, 2009 14:38
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SWATJester posted:It seemed really easy, like to the point of being tough to fail. I agree, but I (and I believe you, too IIRC) approached it from the perspective of having taken countless exams in the preparation for and execution of law school. I could see it being a bit tougher if I hadn't been deeply entrenched in where commas belong for the past 4 years.
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Oct 22, 2009 20:31
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Vilerat posted:Slowly, quietly, the ranks of the United States diplomatic corps are being filled by goons. Do you have stairs in your post?
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Oct 28, 2009 00:01
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I seem to have failed as well. I was pretty much just taking it as a lark, but I'm more insulted/confused than anything else. The geography/political questions were straight out of eighth grade and there's no loving way I failed the essay portion. The only thing I can think of that put me under the bar were the retardedly nebulous "think of a time you helped someone who wasn't born in the US" style questions. Oh well. Not the first time I have failed at something.
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Oct 28, 2009 21:22
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Vilerat posted:Well you can fax in to get your detailed results. I'm pretty sure I bombed the english grammar section. Yeah there's no way that was my bad section either. I was 99th percentile in English on the GRE. I will fax in, but christ they don't get back to you for 6 weeks.
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Business of Ferrets posted:Congrats to the passers! Well done! Well like I said, I was really just taking it in order to have FS open as an option to me, not because I was banking on it as a carreer. I'm just dumbfounded as to how I could have possibly failed. Taking tests on poo poo is about the only thing I've ever been good at. I haven't felt like this since the last time I tried to play basketball.
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