Apr 2, 2018 “Going local”: risk or benefit? I don’t know if you’ve heard of the concept of “going local”. It’s like, when a diplomat (or other expat) decides to quit the job and...
Mar 18, 2018Diplomats make the “medium bucks”A diplomat I know once called the salary diplomats make “the medium bucks”. In contrast, lots of people think that diplomats make...
Mar 12, 2018Foreign Service: how to pick your next postDiplomats change countries as frequently as others change iPhones – but it doesn’t always come with a quality upgrade. Junior diplomats...
Feb 27, 2018The wildest jobs in the Foreign ServiceHere’s a cool thing you might not know about being a US diplomat: there are tons of different types of jobs out there and not all of them...
Feb 4, 2018What it’s like to have staff (I saw that eye roll!)If you would ask me what it’s like to have a bunch of people working for me, I would say that it’s pretty much an emotional and...