Foreign Affairs Officer

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What I Already Know Traveling all over the world to discover the allure, refinement, and life of a new culture sounds phenomenal, does it not? Because I do not want to be like Jay Gatsby from The Great Gatsby and travel all over the world from war or with my illicit money, therefore I have to get a legal and moral job that will permit me to do this. One day on the Internet I stumbled across the potential career of a foreign affairs officer. I concluded that I would have to look into this profession because it sounded quite interesting. I of course would have to factor in how the Great Recession affected my career path to see if it would still be available for me. Then my exploration began. I first came to the conclusion that a foreign affairs officer might be the job for me when I realised that I really wanted to travel and experience a variety of different cultures. I really want to speak different languages and meet people who were raised differently than I was. I did not know a lot about this job before I started my research. I did not even know what the best degrees were to become a foreign affairs officer. I knew that I had to do a lot of investigation to acquire what I wanted to know and find out. I decided that I wanted to pursue the knowledge of how I could become a foreign affairs officer and how the Great Recession of 2008, caused a great deal by over speculation and compelled people today to have lower expectations and save more, affected my specific job and what the opportunities of getting that profession were tout de suite. The Story of My Search My inquiry took about a week and a half to find all of the information I was looking for. The un question I decided to pursue was the foreign affairs officer job descri... ... middle of paper ... ...I should have a procedure to get there. It also demonstrated to me that I need to know what is going around me economically wise and how that will affect my prospective career. Works Cited At-a-Glance. 2013. U.S. Government. Web. 3 December 2013. . Becoming a Foreign Affairs Officer. n.d. U.S. Government. Web. 4 December 2013. . Career: Diplomat/Foreign Service Officer/Specialist. n.d. Web. 4 December 2013. . How to count from 0 to 100 in 20+ Different Languages. n.d. Web. 9 December 2013. . Political Scientists. n.d. Web. 4 December 2013. .

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