re: #283 sagehen

A lot of people I went to college with joined the foreign service; very few make a lifelong career of it. Eventually there’ll be a president they don’t like and a policy they can’t support, at which point they go private sector with an American company who does business in the country they’d prefer to live in.

I’ve heard they also get fed up with the idiots who end up as ambassadors and the staff they bring with them, who know little or nothing about the country they are working in.