re: Serious Question: How to get a secret/ top secret security clearance

I had a TS in the past, if you are a contractor it must be sponsored by your employer, government employee is submitted as a condition of the job if a particular clearance is required, then an investigation is conducted. For it to remain active you must be employed in a role that requires the clearance, whether or not you touch sensitive material.

I left a few years ago but my latest reinvestigation was within the 5 or 7 year window, therefore I currently have an inactive TS, non-SCI clearance.

Secret is a dime a dozen, it basically requires a background check. TS is also very common, mine was not a polygraph. Beyond that it is pretty restricted. SCI is the need to know basis type stuff.

I would tell you, but it's a secret.

if you get a job that requires it, that is how it is obtained. as in period... you don't go to the secret/top security desk and ask for one

I would recommend applying to contractor positions as well, inform them you are willing to submit to a clearance investigation.

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I can tell you but, I'll have to kill you.

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FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TELL HIM!

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My problem is that I do not know what I need to do to start the process. Do I have to join the military. Why are their citizens with it, there must be some loophole.

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You don't get a clearance before you get the job, brah. You get hired and then the company sponsors the clearance process

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quote: I can tell you but, I'll have to kill you. FOR THE LOVE OF GOD, TELL HIM!

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It really isn't that hard to find a job. I heard Costco is hiring right now.

Almost everyone in my hometown has a secret clearance. It's really not that uncommon.

You basically just have thorough background checks done

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It really isn't that hard to find a job. I heard Costco is hiring right now.

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Not sure if you know this but he is a Southern graduate so his minimum starting salary is $80k, I believe it's because he said he has standards in his other 100 threads on Southern. Also, did you know he graduated from Southern?