Security clearance - help! Apparently a chicken-and-egg problem
From time to time I see attractive-looking jobs on defence contracts, and I'm tempted to apply for one because I know a little bit about defence. In fact my university education was sponsored by a defence systems manufacturer, and I spent many happy hours playing with big sexy artillery that does stuff like chucking ten-kilo bombs over several kilometres at six hundred miles an hour.
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