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[MacGyver] What was MacGyver's actual job?

Do "think tanks" like the Phoenix Foundation exist? Where they send out private agents to handle various dangerous situations?
gpt
MacGyver had lots of jobs. He served in the Vietnam War on a bomb defusing team, then was a fire fighter, fighting oil fires in Sumatra, and basically bounced around from job to job until he was hired as a field agent for the Department of External Services, an intelligence agency.

Later he would be world for the Phoenix Foundation think tank. Not sure if he was a direct employee or just a contractor/consultant they would hire as needed or keep on retainer.