electrocuting out of the ivy league colleges or for grad schools, political scientists. my academic background was in economics and i had been living in montana at the time, working in human resources. so i just took a flyer and applied online and i ended up driving cross-country and moving to washington, d.c. and working at the cia until i eventually became an analyst. and you say that so calmly, but women have not exactly been welcomed and we have a woman, gina haspel, who was in covert was activity, was london station chief, is now the cia director. i don t know if you worked under or around her, but these people in this group of women who had an extraordinary careers all in secrecy. and that s true. and i was on the analyst side to start with, which has much more gender equity than the operations side did. when i did segue over to the operations side, it was very clear that it was still kind of operating in this older, cold
lasting way make the fbi and other federal law enforcement and national security agencies seem like risky and demoralizing places to work. make it harder from here to eternity for them to ever recruit the best talent in the air. right? i mean, that s going to happen every year that the fbi and other law enforcement and national security agencies are hiring from here on out. they will go to grad schools and colleges and seek talent from everywhere. they can all over the country and people with other options, you want to work for the fbi, might be a few months you don t get paid but you have to work every day. you starting to feel me? think about what this does to law enforcement and national security agaencies and their ability to hire the best especially if they want to hire people that have a proversed desire to be paid for going to work every day. last week we reported the new york field office of the fbi
air. right? i mean, that s going to happen every year that the fbi and other law enforcement and national security agencies are hiring from here on out. they will go to grad schools and colleges and seek talent from everywhere. and people have other options. you want to work for the fbi, might be a few months you don t get paid but you have to work every day. you starting to feel me? think about what this does to law enforcement and national security agencies and their ability to hire the best especially if they want to hire people that have some sort of perverse desire to be paid for going to work every day. last week we reported the new york field office of the fbi started a food bank for agnlts and agents and families. the fbi s washington office started a canned food drive for its agents, as well.
so this is like the home loan thing and greeting as and getting as many people involved? you can t get rid of the college debt. the debt? like what you owe. the whole machine. from the s.a.t. to the colleges and the grad schools. the s.a.t. measures how good of a test taker you are. i crushed the s.a.t. s. people who did a lot worse on them did better than me in college. i don t think it means anything. i agree some kids can be tutored on top of s.a.t. prep and destroys any notion that it is a fair test of anything. jedediah, talking about essay, they are making it optional. my guess is schools will wile say way wul only look at you if you take the essay test. well strong writers an take the test. if you don t take the test are you telling colleges you are
be strong and that we should be more deferential, and i think that s probably what he was getting at. well, you ought to be strong. you re the only thing between him and this crackpot getting into the united states senate. i wish you would get a little tougher. look at the things he stands for. he wants to get rid of medicare. and then he wants to abolish the minimum wage. there s a lot of people out there who got their first job with a minimum wage and needed it to get protection. he wants to get rid of student loans. i had student loans all through college. i had an assistantship in college and grad schools. a lot of us couldn t go to quality schools if we didn t have that kind of help. what is he talking about saying we got to get rid of student loans and calling it stage three cancer? it wasn t that for me. what s he talking about? that s just it, it s not what he has said that s the problem, it s what he believes that is the problem. thank you for joining us. good to have yo