The actual form: https://www.opm.gov/forms/pdf_fill/sf86.pdf

Holy shit, who the hell goes though all this shit? Just get another job lmfao. Private sector probably pays more than this. (Also you wouldn’t have to worry about government shutdowns)

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    I’m torn between upvoting the TIL part of this because it’s something I know a ton about, and downvoting OP for such a wildly stupid take of “LOL go work somewhere else, hurr durr.”

    A) You only have to fill it out once every 5 or 10 years, depending on what level of clearance you are going for. And when you go back to fill it out again, nearly all of the stuff you filled out is unchanged.

    B) It takes a few hours to do in order to be eligible for very high paying jobs.

    C) You do realize, don’t you, that tons of private sector jobs ALSO require you to fill this out? Working at Lockheed or Boeing or Booze Allen Hamilton or Microsoft or Google or… you get the picture. Any company that does business with the federal gov will have jobs with the possibility of needing this.

    D) Private sector jobs can also be impacted by the gov shutdown, since many of them are on contracts with the gov that don’t get paid when the contracting officer is furloughed.

    EDIT: E) Private sector companies will pay a HUGE bonus to people who already have a TS clearance. Back in 2018-ish, Raytheon was paying a $50,000 sign-on bonus to new employees if they already had TS.