Ask HN: Should/How to join CIA?
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If you enjoy helping support totalitarian dictatorships and friendly puppet governments, then sure, join the CIA. If you want to help make sure drugs get distributed in the US while millions of people rot in jail for non violent drug crimes, then sure, join the CIA. If you want to help put people in jail using "parallel construction", then yeah, sure, join the CIA.
If you're okay operating in an organization that can't help but play a Molochian game of necessary evils, then you should consider it.
Otherwise, you're probably going to get burned out by the constant braying of naive idealists that believe foreign policy exists in a vacuum that conscience moves rather than context.
Otherwise, you're probably going to get burned out by the constant braying of naive idealists that believe foreign policy exists in a vacuum that conscience moves rather than context.
How? Submit your resume. [1] Make some calls.
Should? That probably depends on your personality and skill sets. It's nothing like the movies. If a movie motivated you, that would be the wrong reason.
On a side note, many people in the tech industry indirectly work for them. Many are not even aware. There is more money on the civilian side of things anyway. If you are already in the tech industry, look at the businesses funded by In-Q-Tel. [2] That list is not all inclusive. There are thousands of companies missing from the list.
[1] - https://www.cia.gov/careers/application-process
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
Should? That probably depends on your personality and skill sets. It's nothing like the movies. If a movie motivated you, that would be the wrong reason.
On a side note, many people in the tech industry indirectly work for them. Many are not even aware. There is more money on the civilian side of things anyway. If you are already in the tech industry, look at the businesses funded by In-Q-Tel. [2] That list is not all inclusive. There are thousands of companies missing from the list.
[1] - https://www.cia.gov/careers/application-process
[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In-Q-Tel
Those are two wildly different questions:
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