As Victoria said based on her clients, "When I ask covert agents if they would hold a desk job in Langley, they just laugh at her." Based on personal experience working with Agency personnel, this is correct. You have to live your cover. Once you don't, forget it.
Very true. We have close family friends that were covert CIA agents in the 70's and 80's. Their cover was owning a camera shop. Both became experts in photography and equipment.