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I'm currently working in a position that only requires a public trust. However, I do have a TS/SCI that will expire in October if it isn't activated again (five year mark). I recently received an offer from a company with a contractor position on Bolling AFB. They would sponsor my five year update in October were I to take the offer. Some variables: I don't hate my current job right now (not a lot of stress but not very challenging or interesting either), I make some decent bucks (the new job would be a 10% decrease in salary), my current job is two blocks away from a major metro stop, and I work across the street from my spouse. However, I think the new job might be more exciting content-wise.
I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has faced this situation and were their any regrets about saying goodbye to the TS/SCI?
Those clearances are not easy to get. I would give it some thought. Given this current job climate, you have an advantage over most folks with your active clearance. You will have an easier time getting a job for a govt contractor or gov in the DC metro area at any time.
I'm currently working in a position that only requires a public trust. However, I do have a TS/SCI that will expire in October if it isn't activated again (five year mark). I recently received an offer from a company with a contractor position on Bolling AFB. They would sponsor my five year update in October were I to take the offer. Some variables: I don't hate my current job right now (not a lot of stress but not very challenging or interesting either), I make some decent bucks (the new job would be a 10% decrease in salary), my current job is two blocks away from a major metro stop, and I work across the street from my spouse. However, I think the new job might be more exciting content-wise.
I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has faced this situation and were their any regrets about saying goodbye to the TS/SCI?
Might pose this question on the NoVa forum, lots of defense contractors there.
I'm currently working in a position that only requires a public trust. However, I do have a TS/SCI that will expire in October if it isn't activated again (five year mark). I recently received an offer from a company with a contractor position on Bolling AFB. They would sponsor my five year update in October were I to take the offer. Some variables: I don't hate my current job right now (not a lot of stress but not very challenging or interesting either), I make some decent bucks (the new job would be a 10% decrease in salary), my current job is two blocks away from a major metro stop, and I work across the street from my spouse. However, I think the new job might be more exciting content-wise.
I'm just wondering if anyone else out there has faced this situation and were their any regrets about saying goodbye to the TS/SCI?
I let mine expire, never really cared to base my career around a security experience.
Initially, I had this feeling of being "left out of the party" or something like that, like I was missing something, this may been more due to the changing of careers than anything else and no longer being privy to "cool stuff" going on, and the whole atmosphere around it. It has been several years since this and I think it was a great decision; no BS security forms, interviews, polys, blah blah. I look back now and think "why the heck did I ever even commit to such stuff"?
But if you do have future plans for using your clearance, do not think only one step out, think five steps; that job may pay less, but what will this job, and clearance do for you in the future? You need to look at it that way.
I exited out of the whole thing, went into the finance industry.
When I was at the Pentagon, I knew of people who were working night shift answering phones in an ops center simply to keep their clearance alive.
They also made quite a bit of cash that way. Regular day job making $90K 7:30AM to 4:30 PM. Then going to the BS clearance job to work 5PM to Midnight to maintain the clearance and make an additional $60K.
Thanks for all the feedback. To tell you the truth, I have enjoyed the two jobs I've had post military without the clearance. My clearance jobs have always had an air of paranoia about them. Of course, maybe it's just me, but I've decided to stick with my easy and somewhat enjoyable public trust job...
Having a clearance sucks... but is a necessary evil.
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