I welcome general answers that would be of use to anyone, but thought I’d give some info around my personal motivation for asking as well:
I am a dual citizen US/UK but currently live in UK. I am young, single (at least for now!) and am quite open to moving to the US. I even have some family over there, so overall it wouldn’t be too stressful/difficult to move.
If I were eligible for good government roles in the US, I would just make that a priority. However, rather unfortunately, I never signed up for the US Selective Service (essentially their military draft) which you have to do before age 26 (I realised this when I was 26) and not having signed up to this makes you ineligible for many US federal jobs. Living in the UK I basically never even heard about this, and I know I’m not the only one this has happened to.
It’s still the case however that I can easily move to the US, so now I want to think about if I should still go to the US for another type of role (say movement building role), or to go into policy in UK. These aren’t the only two options I am considering, but for the purposes of this question I am narrowing it to these. I’m still figuring out some things about personal fit so you may as well just assume for the purposes of this question that my personal fit is constant across all roles, although I know of course that personal fit is a key consideration.
I welcome general answers that would be of use to anyone, but thought I’d give some info around my personal motivation for asking as well:
I am a dual citizen US/UK but currently live in UK. I am young, single (at least for now!) and am quite open to moving to the US. I even have some family over there, so overall it wouldn’t be too stressful/difficult to move.
If I were eligible for good government roles in the US, I would just make that a priority. However, rather unfortunately, I never signed up for the US Selective Service (essentially their military draft) which you have to do before age 26 (I realised this when I was 26) and not having signed up to this makes you ineligible for many US federal jobs. Living in the UK I basically never even heard about this, and I know I’m not the only one this has happened to.
It’s still the case however that I can easily move to the US, so now I want to think about if I should still go to the US for another type of role (say movement building role), or to go into policy in UK. These aren’t the only two options I am considering, but for the purposes of this question I am narrowing it to these. I’m still figuring out some things about personal fit so you may as well just assume for the purposes of this question that my personal fit is constant across all roles, although I know of course that personal fit is a key consideration.