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The prestige of being unable to include it on your resume if you ever want to be able to work again.


Maybe they list it as "Consulting" and list vague achievements in government cybersecurity auditing?

A bunch of them seem young enough to just leave it off and say they were in school. Maybe DOGE counts as a student cybersecurity project?


Achievements and Hobbies: Destroyed US democracy, Kayaking and Bivouacking.


Oh, I'm sure some companies admire the "move fast, break things, don't care who you hurt, just follow orders" ethos.


Yeah, the less tongue in cheek (but even more tragic) version of this is just that they will be very employable by very ideological right wing organizations, and not very employable outside that bubble (unless they write or otherwise highlight a "learned lessons and turned things around" narrative of this period of time).

But most organizations don't, and won't, want to hire people who are willing to behave lawlessly.




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