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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

Here are some examples to inspire your own showerthoughts: 1

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Email the CIA. Apply for military intelligence.

[–] Daft_ish 19 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)
[–] CIA_chatbot 43 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Doing alright, how you doing?

[–] pm_me_your_quackers 16 points 1 year ago

5 month old account lmao

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)
[–] Daft_ish 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] blanketswithsmallpox 6 points 1 year ago

... We've rescinded our be in touch.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Hey, you’re not CIA - you’re the bald guy from the XCOM council!

[–] Fondots 5 points 1 year ago (4 children)

You know years ago I heard a recruitment ad for the CIA on the radio, and that caught me a little off guard, I always kind of assumed the CIA personally reached out to specific candidates and hired through shady back channels and such and didn't really do open recruitment.

I guess it makes sense though, for every James Bond type super spy there's probably a hundred different random office staff, IT guys, clerks, mailroom guys, secretaries, janitors, accountants, etc. who handle boring day-to-day operational stuff and rarely or never get to see any of the crazy spy craft stuff happening.

And I guess once you land one of those jobs, maybe you can get your foot in the door for eventual promotion to International Man of Mystery.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago

You're not supposed to talk about such messages. They're only for you.

[–] Finite 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The CIA has an internship program for college grads

[–] aidan 2 points 1 year ago

I looked into it, and honestly compared to most private sector internships it seemed terrible, one of the alphabet agency internships I looked at was unpaid maybe all of them. And it was the most stereotypical intern stuff. Organizing files and the like.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

They recruit from college students studying Chinese, Arabic, Russian...

[–] Agent641 1 points 1 year ago

At my university my whole class was invited to a seminar about how and why to join the Australian secret intelligence service as an intel officer.