Hello, is it me you're looking for?

Judging by the job description hereunder, you'd think that I'd be RAND Corporation's dream candidate for that position:



Am I qualified?



I am SUPERLATIVELY qualified!!!

The question is will they have me?

If I were RAND, I 'd snap me up in a second. No question about it.

But I am me, and RAND is RAND. So, there's no telling, really.

When it comes down to it, maybe the real question ought to be: would I have them?

Well, would I?

I do tend to take this sort of things very seriously.



Well, maybe not quite THAT seriously.

In any case, not SO seriously that I didn't go ahead and apply for the position. Working for a think tank, even if only as an Administrative Assistant, always had a certain appeal to me. Besides, I can use the money.

But the question still remains: what is it that RAND does, exactly? And what kinds of people do work there, anyway?



To be sure, RAND had nice things to say about himself:



Not everybody agrees:

The Rand Corporation: The Think Tank That Controls America

As is often the case, it all comes down to a matter of perspective, I suppose.

Does it matter?

Does it make any difference who one works for in the end?

Be it RAND Corporation...

Or Veridian Dynamics?