What not to write on your security clearance form (1988)
When I moved to Canada, at age 16-17 I initially failed a lot of job applications at places like Staples, Future Shop, Best Buy, Radio Shack, etc.<p>For some reason, many of them had a type of &quot;Corporate Personality Test&quot; on their application, and asked the same &quot;Have you ever considered stealing from your employer?&quot; to which I would cheerfully answer &quot;Yes&quot;.<p>Apparently this was an automatic deal-breaker; there was no follow-up - no &quot;HAVE you ever stolen&quot; or &quot;WOULD you ever steal from your employer&quot;, or &quot;why were you considering it&quot; or anything like that. My mind never stops and there&#x27;s virtually nothing in the world I have <i>not</i> &quot;considered&quot; (as in, thought about, crossed my mind, evaluated, etc). Similarly, years later it actually took my Canadian therapist a little while to adjust as well when he asked if I ever considered suicide and I cheerfully replied &quot;Yes!&quot; (I&#x27;m not suicidal, in the least, by any of the normal metrics; but I genuinely don&#x27;t understand people who have &quot;never considered&quot; it - how do you block &amp; limit your mind? What mental fences do you have that you have never &quot;considered&quot; such an obvious course of action in the likely billion of seconds of thinking?).<p>I don&#x27;t know what other people do with their brains; my wife falls asleep within 30 seconds of her head hitting the pillow, my mind insists on spending an hour or three &quot;considering&quot; things I apparently shouldn&#x27;t put on a job application lol :-)