Foreign Service Officer
Linissa
“So often when you’re in the United States you see the world from one view. But when you go overseas you see it in a whole different perspective, and so you have a more complete view of how the world really is.”
Kaara
“One of the best things I like about management work is, we are the platform. Nothing happens on the policy side unless management officers get the buildings out there, hire the people, make sure you get the right people for the ambassador, make sure that you’re getting everyone paid and that you’re getting them paid as well as they can be paid.”
Joseph
“I’ve always told people interested in what we do that there are there’s one key work in what we do and it’s service. I don’t care if it’s the Foreign Service for those who have a vocation to serve abroad or it’s the Civil Service. I think people working for State have a distinct ethos and it comes across.”
Jayne
“To me there’s something unique about consular work. There is no other government in the world that takes care of its citizens the way America does — so I feel pretty privileged to be an American consular officer.”
Jim
“I think of the livelihoods of the people who work back in America, the people that I grew up with, the people that I serve as a public servant. And what I do overseas makes it so that they have a better economic future and their children and my children have better economic future.”
Francisco
“It’s a team effort, whether in the operations center or an embassy. Everyone from all of the career tracks has a critical role that they play in the conduct of diplomacy.”
Ed
“I went up to see the king. Now I was forbidden to touch him, so I didn’t shake hands or anything, but I made a little speech. ‘I’m proud to be here on behalf of the United States government, and return this important and sacred object to you.'”