Psychotomy

so i’ve spent the last month or so trolling baltimore-craigslist, washington post, and monster. finding jack all in computer security. mostly finding entry level monkey positions or management. i’m waaay past the entry level (where were these when i needed an entry level job???) and monkey bit. not raelly interested in management, and no experience in it, so i wouldn’t necessarily qualify for those.

a lot of positions that look promising require top secret or better clearance. before applying. as in, your current employer got it for you and we want you to jump ship. which is the clearance way here in dc i guess, to be fair.

then i checked sans and giac. giac took down their listings, doh. sans i found a link to a couple companies that the instructors work at, but couldn’t find any hiring information (not too surprising, since they’re small and do consulting work)

then. after a month. THEN it FINALLY occurs to me. “duh, who does the cyber crime stuff?” (i was looking at a position on monster doing homeland security stuff, but not for dhs). so i hit dhs. no, apparently they don’t do much with computers according to their site. oh, fbi cybercrime. the guys who prosecute cross-state attacks! so i’m there, fishing around.

and it finally hits me. down the road, like 5-10 minutes tops. there’s a big black glass building. lotsa guards. it’s another tla. not dhs. fbi. cia …. DUH! N FREAKIN’ SA!

The No Such Agency people have lots computers, lotsa security stuff, cryptography!

so now i’m gonna tweak up my res and put in for some fbi and nsa jobs :) wheee, moron!

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