Unboxing: Welcome Package

It’s not the newest or coolest thing out there, but I thought that the package that gets sent out to incoming Foreign Service Officers should receive a special unboxing. Of course, I’m not going to say too much because that would ruin the surprise but here is what you should know.

Inside the box is a big folder stuffed with bureaucracy. The first hint that you’re not in this for the money is the front of that folder. While some places have nicely embossed images on their welcome packages, we get this Clipart relic from 1995.

After briefly second-guessing my career choice, I opened up the folder to the most reading material I’ve ever seen since freshman year. I quickly closed the folder back up. Wouldn’t want to suffer from exhaustion.

And that concludes the unboxing of the welcome package. I hope that I’ll be able to read some of this stuff sooner or later, but the fact that it’s in different font styles, font families,  and font colors makes it really discouraging. Also, the fact that it involves reading. Doesn’t the government know that it’s summer?