> personality trait that is reasonably unusual in the general population I'm not sure this part is true. "submission to a fairly arbitrary set of rules" sounds

> personality trait that is reasonably unusual in the general population I'm not sure this part is true. "submission to a fairly arbitrary set of rules" sounds like every job. > that's not normally what people think of when they think of "working for the NSA". Most people working for the NSA aren't working as a "Jason Bourne"-type (which is what we think of as "working for the NSA). I would claim the NSA's very much like a standard employer... but with a (significantly) more heavily enforced NDA.