A few times in my life, I got the call to the office no one wants: my job was gone. One day, I was grinding away, providing for me and my family; the next, I was being told, “You’re being let go,” leaving my stomach in knots. But I didn’t wallow. I dusted off my resume, hit the pavement, and got back on the saddle, because that’s what Americans do: we adapt, we improvise, we overcome.
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So when I read that the State Department was cutting 1,300 jobs, I didn’t shed a tear for the bureaucrats, some of whom have been collecting paychecks since the Bush-Clinton years. Instead, I thought: welcome to the real world, folks. Time to learn to code. The State Department’s overhaul, announced last week, is a long-overdue reckoning for a bloated agency drowning in red tape.
State Department cuts over 1,300 staffers as part