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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The best ones are thoughts that many people can relate to and they find something funny or interesting in regular stuff.

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[–] Fondots@lemmy.world 5 points 11 months ago (4 children)

You know years ago I heard a recruitment ad for the CIA on the radio, and that caught me a little off guard, I always kind of assumed the CIA personally reached out to specific candidates and hired through shady back channels and such and didn't really do open recruitment.

I guess it makes sense though, for every James Bond type super spy there's probably a hundred different random office staff, IT guys, clerks, mailroom guys, secretaries, janitors, accountants, etc. who handle boring day-to-day operational stuff and rarely or never get to see any of the crazy spy craft stuff happening.

And I guess once you land one of those jobs, maybe you can get your foot in the door for eventual promotion to International Man of Mystery.

[–] intensely_human@lemm.ee 8 points 11 months ago

You're not supposed to talk about such messages. They're only for you.

[–] Finite@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

The CIA has an internship program for college grads

[–] aidan@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

I looked into it, and honestly compared to most private sector internships it seemed terrible, one of the alphabet agency internships I looked at was unpaid maybe all of them. And it was the most stereotypical intern stuff. Organizing files and the like.

[–] electric_nan@lemmy.ml 2 points 11 months ago

They recruit from college students studying Chinese, Arabic, Russian...

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

At my university my whole class was invited to a seminar about how and why to join the Australian secret intelligence service as an intel officer.