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Cleared - Wednesday, September 17, 2008
After only five months of an extensive background investigation consisting of investigators interviewing my family, friends, co-workers and supervisors, countless but sporadic back-and-forth communication, and a couple of almost-traumatic polygraphs, I received my security clearance and was briefed today.
The whole conferment was rather unceremonious. Our customer just one day gave a verbal OK, and that was it. No parade. No balloons or a cake. I could've settled for a measly cookie.
Anyway, I don't think there will be many changes to my current job duties. Having a clearance will just let me get over hurdles and expedite things when trying to do work that involves sensitive data, which will empower me to be a better worker and make everybody happier. But I do think it'll get me a $200k pay raise, and let me find out who really killed JFK.
The whole conferment was rather unceremonious. Our customer just one day gave a verbal OK, and that was it. No parade. No balloons or a cake. I could've settled for a measly cookie.
Anyway, I don't think there will be many changes to my current job duties. Having a clearance will just let me get over hurdles and expedite things when trying to do work that involves sensitive data, which will empower me to be a better worker and make everybody happier. But I do think it'll get me a $200k pay raise, and let me find out who really killed JFK.