Given that many Generation Xers were latchkey children whose working parents often got divorced, many of these kids were forced to seek a sense of family among their peers; alas they grew up not trusting, not respecting authority figures. You might be a proud card holding member of this demographic. Or maybe you know them in the workplace. If you are a job-hopper in defiance of authority and seeking employment within the Department of State you may be headed for a train wreck

Foreign Service officer Alan Roecks, an information technology specialist, has served at numerous overseas embassies and is presently completing senior training at the Army War College in Carlisle, Pa. According to Roecks