Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2004 15:07:27 -0500 From: "R. Gary Cutbill" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
[...] OK, I've watched enough of the messages about this go by that I can no longer hold back my curiosity. If I'm prying it's fair if you want to tell me to mind by own business. Why is this important to you to get a job that requires a security clearance? [...] I can't speak for Mr. Ehrlich, of course, but an incentive for some people is that some companies (obviously those with military and/or spook contracts) pay a signing bonus for new employees with clearances and/or pay a bonus to employees who have clearances. The bonus generally rises with the level of the clearance and, if you believe the scuttlebutt, it can be very generous at the high end of the scale. So I guess you could view "TOP SECRET" as kind of like an engineering degree, a "CISSP", "CCNE", "MCSE", "A+", etc. -- i.e., as an income enhancer. A huge difference is that you need to get into a job that requires a clearance before you can be considered for a clearance (you can't just apply for a clearance like a driver's license, and a clearance is utterly meaningless in isolation). --Bede McCall _______________________________________________ bblisa mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.bblisa.org/mailman/listinfo/bblisa
