Diplomacy

>>72180717
What the hell is the diplomatic service?

>>72180717
Hard work, my sister work 8am-10pm 5-6 days a week.
When a helicopter with several of our citizens crashed in Pakistan she had to learn the entire Pakistani procedures within 2 days just to get the bodies home for funeral.
Her seniors had to go to warzones in Ukraine looking for BUK launchers, Australia and more than a dozen countries to seek help finding a missing plane, held hostage by North Korea, go to warzones in Yemen to negotiate peaceful evacuation of our citizens, evacuation during Arab Spring, dealing with lazy Gulf diplomatic services.
The only ones who had it easy are those assigned to UN.

>>72181053
Damn. Sounds different here, probably because we're irrelevant

Once in you have to choose 3 countries and you'll be sent to one and your work will be relatee to your studies.

Still makes me worry a lot about stress and stuff like that you describe

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>>72181481
>a lot about stress
Probably half her friends are already divorced due to lack of spending time with family.
Selection is already tough enough, only 8 people passed from her batch. To pass you have to do diploma studies at night while undergoing military/police/firefigher training during the day.
Sleep during lectures too much and you are out.
Positions overseas depends on availability and your language training, London is probably the worst while other countries is more relaxed.
When you have clusterfuck like plane incidents, terrorist kidnapping, China's claims, VX gas, poor ASEAN members like Laos and Myanmar asking for aid while hiding human rights violation and genocide, refugee crisis, trying to be neutral without running to Uncle Sam or Xi Jinping or even Shinzo Abe throwing money to buy allies, negotiating with separatist groups in neighbouring countries for peace talks and many other issues.
Sometimes they have to act as escorts for other delegates, for example recently Japanese officials are don't know their way around 3rd world countries so her department act as guides for them as they check on Japanese investment in Indochina.
Her entire department is busy thinking up ways to get our citizens out of North Korea, so far thanks to UN World Food Programme pressure some are already released.
The whole Pivot to Asia thing really sucks dick for us, we have a saying that basically goes 'when two elephants clash, the deer that got caught between them got the most trouble'.

>>72182601
Sounds really though. I'd probably be sent to Asia due to language knowledge.

Seems like somebody must be born for that.

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>>72183114
>somebody must be born for that.
Pretty much all of them are spawns of ministers and high ranking officials bred for the role with education overseas and travels around the world.
Even my family is several generations of govt officials and my sister was born in UK and has travelled to Aus/Nz/Korea/Europe which helps with the experience needed to answer the interviews.
Diplomatic services also have one of the highest rate of salary rise in the country but have to deal with other departments and the public thinking that all they do is party all day.
Tough life but for them being able to secure dead bodies form MH17 for burial home to give closure to the families, bringing home those stranded in a foreign country, coordinating with foreign agency and multiple branches of our own armed forces to evacuate thousands of our own from conflict areas is worth it.
Military might is not the only thing that saves lives, during Arab Spring by negotiation with friendly Gulf countries we were able to deploy our patrols in Somalia to help thousands escape from Egypt.
Pic related is poorfag's long distance patrols.

>>72183774
Guess it also shows the differences between our countries. Here the problem is that most of the people who join the service don't want to leave the country and remain here doing paperwork at the main building, earning a diplomat salary (in dollars). There's few who actually want to go to the missions outside (and so those earn mountains of money). Plus most want to go to USA or Europe, for this reason asian and african countries missions have an exaggerated salary difference. For example the argentinian ambassador at Kenya, according to one of my professors (who tried but failed at the joining exams) earns so much that both he his children, grandchildren and great grandchildren could live without working (the salary being in US dollars makes it extremely high when converted to pesos).

Other people didn't even enter via exams, they were accomodated for political motives. Experience overseas isn't valued either, nor are post grade studies, etc. As long as you pass the exams and then the dissertation, you enter. You can literally go from NEET to diplomat here.

Thanks for your replies btw :)

>>72180717
It seems to be disproportionately filled with homosexual men, I really don't understand why

>>72184770
No problems, over here no matter the political connections just forging one of them takes tons of elimination, training and money so there will be consequences for those who quit due to half assed effort so I wouldn't want anyone to get into that kind of trouble.
Good luck if you do wish to go down that path.

>>72185016
I don't really think I want this. It's mostly an "I must honour my parents" and a bit the money thing which could give more security in the future. Everytime I visited foreign embassies here the employees seemed very relaxed and just doing paperwork.

Guess I'm too much antisystem to this kind of area.