[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'M')y suggestion would be to join the CIA and then become a priest as a cover, that way your both. They can stick you someplace in the middle East, say Iran, and you can go around spying, pretenting to convert the muslims to christians. (Or, I guess in your case maybe you wont be pretending). I will also give you a shortcut to the CIA, go see if you can get a job with Kellog, Root and Brown. Tell them you would love to learn Persian and work for them in Dubai.

[manu]

My advice to you is to not make a career choice at this time. Do some meditation and soul searching for about six months and everything should fall into place. If you can travel somewhere for awhile that would also be good.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('manu', 'M')y advice to you is to not make a career choice at this time. Do some meditation and soul searching for about six months and everything should fall into place. If you can travel somewhere for awhile that would also be good.

[LateGreatPlanetEarth]

if you can answer this question without going nutzie, then you should be an analyst:
question about end times - eschatology
have often wondered about this (more so lately with the iran situation, world oil supplies dwindling, the bible code):
if the pope would spring a boner, would that usher in armageddon? i'm not saying he ever will, but hypothetically.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('LateGreatPlanetEarth', 'i')f you can answer this question without going nutzie, then you should be an analyst:
question about end times - eschatology
have often wondered about this (more so lately with the iran situation, world oil supplies dwindling, the bible code):
if the pope would spring a boner, would that usher in armageddon? i'm not saying he ever will, but hypothetically.

[gg3]

Baldwin, CIA first, State second (ambassador takes some doing, but there are also analysis gigs at State that have contact with CIA), and then if neither of the above, you can use your linguist skills at NSA or the United Nations, though those would not necessarily be analyst jobs.

Don't listen to obvious idiots:-)

Finance is going to be a train wreck, and you said you didn't like math anyway. Stockbrokers & commodity traders: frankly I think those jobs would bore the living @#$! out of you, and in any case they don't serve the kind of purpose that seems to be inherent in your ideas.

And you don't want to get physically anywhere near the Middle East if you value your life, or more particularly if you don't want to die by having your head sawn off slowly by a guy who also probably has a boner while he's doing it.

Another option to consider is grad school up through PhD and then go into the academic world or one of the private think tanks. These options will let you do analysis and also publish the output, there won't be any secrecy issues, and you'll probably get other offers along the way. International relations, comparative politics, etc. etc., you probably know more than I about the proliferation of specialized academic disciplines in this general spectrum.

The problem with most think-tanks is that they have an agenda, so you'll need to look for the one whose agenda most closely matches your own political outlook. Same case obtains for the academic world as well, though after you get tenure somewhere you're a free man.

I can't think of any private sector (corporate) gigs that would give you what you're looking for without undue constraints on subject matter.

Anyway, best wishes and feel free to write if you like.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('gg3', 'B')aldwin, CIA first, State second (ambassador takes some doing, but there are also analysis gigs at State that have contact with CIA), and then if neither of the above, you can use your linguist skills at NSA or the United Nations, though those would not necessarily be analyst jobs.

[I_Like_Plants]

I think Baldwin has made it abundantly clear that he's wealthy, his parents are wealthy, and while possibly not Bush Family wealthy, he's got what it takes to get anywhere he wants whether it's the CIA or a Nobel Prize - it just takes wealth. Smarts, creativity, innovation, you hire proles to do that then take the credit.

So, why is Winsome Rich Boy asking us if we approve his decision? He needs to understand that whatever he does, and yes this includes raping a stripper and grinding her up to go into the Sunday meatloaf, will be approved of by his class, the Important Class. What we think goes not matter.

[Baldwin]

Dad is a retired detective (NYC), now doing private security. Mom is a math teacher. Yeah, I am really wealthy....by Sudanese standards.

College is going to be a stretch to pay for, so I need to get a school with a decent scholarship package.

So, I_like_plants, what do you base your BS on?

[I_Like_Plants]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Baldwin', 'D')ad is a retired detective (NYC), now doing private security. Mom is a math teacher. Yeah, I am really wealthy....by Sudanese standards.

[Baldwin]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('I_Like_Plants', '')$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('Baldwin', 'D')ad is a retired detective (NYC), now doing private security. Mom is a math teacher. Yeah, I am really wealthy....by Sudanese standards.

[gg3]

Yo Baldwin-

Sorry about the graphic imagery back there; just attempting to spell out the stakes in a way that won't be forgotten should the allure of exotic places rear its head.

You definitely have the writing skills.

I'd suggest not discussing your personal information here, including such apparently innocent details as what the folks down the block do for a living. OPSEC & all that. Baddies can piece together a surprising amount of valid inference from a few sketchy details of that type.

Anyway, I don't know that there's much more I can contribute at this point, and it seems you've got the ground covered in terms of ignoring obvious idiocy or at least not letting it get to you one way or the other. And it seems you've also got the ground covered in terms of how to get from here to there.

So, best wishes, and may something you write end up on President Gore's desk, with a hand-written note from DCI saying "this guy's good, read his report in full, I think he might have a viable answer to that item we discussed at the last briefing."

Feel free to write to me via PM on this board if you like.