Okay, about a month ago I received a job interview with TSA which was a fairly difficult interview. The interview consisted of these criteria:
- A color vision test
- An interview
- Fingerprinting
- Filling out documents
If you fail, or do not meet the obligations outlined in the job process than you are excused from the process. The TSA will tell you upfront if you do not meet their criteria even before their 3 hour interview is done. Unfortunately, this was not the job that was for me. I was excused after my interview before I completed the other tasks.
However, the TSA process is much longer than an interview. There are 11 steps before you can become a TSO for the Transport Security Administration(TSA). The first four, which I completed include:
- Filling out the application (The application for me took 6 hours to complete, which is the first application for me that took that long).
- A computer based test, which tests a person on english and grammar skills. The test also tests a person on word matching, which asks a person to define a required word with a list of possible similiar words. After the vocabulary is done, then a person a person has to go through series of flash frames which has hidden x-ray items as if TSO personnel were looking through an x-ray image scanner. The items are shown prior to the flash frames. I will tell you that this test was very hard. There were no preparatory material to do this test. However, I passed this whole test.
- Contingent offer. This offer is an electronic offer to ask the person if they are still interested in the position. They will send this offer once a person passes the computer based test. Please note that a person only has two tries to pass the test before they disqualify themselves for the contigent offer.
- Once the contigent offer is set. Then, the person will be called for an Airport Assessment which can happen within the time frame of the time when the contingent offer was placed and/or when the two year mark happens. When the two year is reached than the contingent offer is expired, and the person must go through the whole application process again. However, if the person is called within that time frame than they will be go through the Airport Assessment, which is the job interview outlined.
Anyways, since the job interview I have applied to at least 146 job applications. That is an insane number already. If I do not succeed with the jobs within the next two months I am thinking of enlisting. Here are the reasons:
- It will give me a chance to travel, especially the possible places of Asia. I want to go back towards my cultural roots.
- Possibly gain combat experience. I would like to know what it would be like to protect the freedoms of this country as place my life on the line. I believe that each of us a duty to serve these individuals in this order:
- God
- Country
- Family
- Gain values that the services could only teach that I will be using later down the road.
- Also, gain another degree. I hope to use their educational resources as a way to go after the degrees that I want to attain. These degrees will be used to help my professional later down the road. The possible degrees that I want to attain later down the road will include:
- Automotive Technology
- Culinary
- Something in real estate, or business
- Computer Information Technology
These are the countries whom I bleed my Spirit towards:
- United States of America
- The Philippine flag: my home country.
Personal note: We must never forget where are roots belong.
