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Topic Name: Choice and the DO
Message Name: Even in DO
Date Posted: 03/22/2006
In Reply To: don't forget, if you are now being recruited and interviewed for a DO spot, you will have no access to DI recruiters (in fact, even if you applied, they would not talk to you until DO is done with you). But if you start with the DO, work for a few years, decide you would be a better fit in the DI, then I'm sure somebody would try to accomodate you and allow you to transfer, assuming you have the skills. No offense to the DI people on this board, but if you have a chance to work in the DO why would you even consider DI?! Go big or go home is what I say (j/k...but only slightly).
Message: you could ask the question: If you're not going to aim to be an Operations Officer, then why bother with DO? I'm not saying that's a valid argument 'cos there's plenty of other good jobs in the DO, but there's plenty of people that would say OO is the cream of the crop and then its nothing else. Given that someone is NOT going the OO track, then going full out for DI may be where that person could have the most infuence no?

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