Bored, where does one go to become spy?
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Surveilance officer seems alright although i bet it's dead boring.
Salary doesn't seem to bad either considering theres no mention of qualifications.
training to advanced police standard driving.
I bet they would teach you a few things that would come in handy as well.
It's a 75 day course though and if you fail your out. One would need to be able to support ones self financialy over that time with bills etc and take time off work to do it.
Hmm, interested. But not realy motivated and i think it would show
Salary doesn't seem to bad either considering theres no mention of qualifications.
training to advanced police standard driving.
I bet they would teach you a few things that would come in handy as well.
It's a 75 day course though and if you fail your out. One would need to be able to support ones self financialy over that time with bills etc and take time off work to do it.
Hmm, interested. But not realy motivated and i think it would show
bilko2 said:
Surveilance officer seems alright although i bet it's dead boring.
Salary doesn't seem to bad either considering theres no mention of qualifications.
training to advanced police standard driving.
I bet they would teach you a few things that would come in handy as well.
It's a 75 day course though and if you fail your out. One would need to be able to support ones self financialy over that time with bills etc and take time off work to do it.
Hmm, interested. But not realy motivated and i think it would show
Is that MI5?
One of the best places to go used to be St. Andrews. They had the biggest concentration of terrorism experts around and the entire International Relations course focused on guns and bombs. Trouble is with both 5 and 6 is that they are still bureaucracies and you have to tick the box in different departments if you want to get ahead (the thrill of being a spy wears off after a six month rotation in the archive department).
A better option is to join one of the private companies that does pretty much the same thing as an intelligence service. Control Risks are probably the best one in this field (the Russell Crowe movie Proof of Life was based on them).
A better option is to join one of the private companies that does pretty much the same thing as an intelligence service. Control Risks are probably the best one in this field (the Russell Crowe movie Proof of Life was based on them).
Surveillance requires you to spend days sitting and doing nothing, with the hope that there might be a few minutes of interesting action. Intelligence is more about research at a desk, than James Bond stuff.
I'm surprised that surveillence training is only 75 days though. Considering that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation prescribes 6 months of training to become a Surveillance Officer, I would have thought the British agencies would require as extensive, if not more extensive, training.
The good side with such a career is that the skills acquired are skills for life, and might come in handy in tight situations later on (which hopefully will not eventuate, but you never know in this day and age). Bad thing is you have to do and go where the agency bosses - or the HR department - wants you to do and go, which might end up being a very menial job in some back-office department, or some far away posting which might make your wife and children very uncomfortable. You also need lifetime commitment, or at least be prepared to spend your lifetime in the agency.
I'm surprised that surveillence training is only 75 days though. Considering that the Australian Security Intelligence Organisation prescribes 6 months of training to become a Surveillance Officer, I would have thought the British agencies would require as extensive, if not more extensive, training.
The good side with such a career is that the skills acquired are skills for life, and might come in handy in tight situations later on (which hopefully will not eventuate, but you never know in this day and age). Bad thing is you have to do and go where the agency bosses - or the HR department - wants you to do and go, which might end up being a very menial job in some back-office department, or some far away posting which might make your wife and children very uncomfortable. You also need lifetime commitment, or at least be prepared to spend your lifetime in the agency.
I have a relative who's been in MI5 or SIS (I don't even know which one) since he got the tap on the shoulder at university. Can't say anything to anyone, not even close family members, I don't even know which service it is, probably SIS as apparently does lots of travel. Another chap I went to school with went into the army and did his tour of duty. After leaving and applied for an intelligence position and got the job and now they are paying him to learn some obscure pakistani language or something, he'll probably have to do boring stuff like interrogate smeller terrorists in some backwater third world country. Not my idea of fun. Even the army is something like 98% boredoom 2% sheer terror. Not to mention the very extensive and intrusive background checks, they want to know EVERYTHING, about you including practically everyone you've ever met and any girl you even had a crush on or wanked over. Your not even allowed to tell anyone that you've applied, and in the case of the Australian services, you have to spend a couple of years living in Canberra, which is enough to put anyone off.
And even if you do a lot of cool stuff you can't tell anyone, which is half the point isn't it
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And even if you do a lot of cool stuff you can't tell anyone, which is half the point isn't it
Maybe this is more what your looking for, all the fun, none of the risk or boredoom
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