>> The best part of the job is the ability to change your job completely every two years.
For the first two years, I was interviewing Bengalis who wanted to come to the America
as tourists or immigrants and determining who qualified for our Visas.
That wasn't the most fun job I ever had, but it was certainly an interesting one.
After that, I worked in the Ukraine for two years, as we already discussed.
The next year, is spent in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt in the middle of a civil war,
essentially, between local insurgent groups and the government
where I was monitoring the peace treaty between Israel and Egypt, and now I'm working
in Washington as a problem solver.
Being a diplomat, I would say, there's quite a few challenges.
One in particular is that you are moving every two years.
There's a certain lack of stability to the job, and depending on where you are in the world,
because we are world-wide available.
That means you could be sent to a war zone.
You may be pulled out of that.
Your whole life may be upended and you have to be prepared for that possibility.
You may be separated from your family, if you go to certain posts
where family members are not allowed, and because everyone is changing
at different scheduled but approximately every two to three years,
you don't really have any way to predict who your boss will be, and as in any organization,
there's amazing bosses, there's less amazing bosses, and that can be frustrating,
at times, to have that lack of stability.