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Re: What would be your dream tech job?

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Originally Posted by phrontist
Being a government spook would be a fun job. Design really massive radio communications intercept systems, build collossal underground supercomputers, do freakishly complicated mathematics all day, tell the masses what they need to hear, send stuff in to space without any of the pesky budgetary constraints NASA has... yes, working for one of the three letter agencies would be fun.
My company does IT consulting for the intel community. Most of the really cool engineering work is done by contractors. This is incentive to live a clean life, because one you have a clearance in the DC area you have a degree of job security. Heres a really interesting declassified piece of history. Read about the Corona program, it really is amazing what they did.

http://www.nro.gov/corona/facts.html
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