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re: Which military occupation would you choose?
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:13 am to CatFan81
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:13 am to CatFan81
One of the guys in my unit flies in his civilian job. We give him shite all the time because controllers and pilots are typically at odds because we both think we rule the skies. :D
Pilots want to talk about not needing us to fly in THEIR skies. Well, that's all well and good until shite goes IFR and you can't tell your nose from your tail. Then who makes sure you don't go BOOM with another cocky-arse pilot? Me.
Pilots want to talk about not needing us to fly in THEIR skies. Well, that's all well and good until shite goes IFR and you can't tell your nose from your tail. Then who makes sure you don't go BOOM with another cocky-arse pilot? Me.
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Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:14 am to Wanderin Reb
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As for money, my wife is a doctor, which frees me up to pursue whatever I like and not really sweat about money. :D I thank God everyday for her. Haha
Lucky. Respect to your wife
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And yeah...bring on some doctor/nurse jokes. My body is ready.
My limited supply of witty quips is exhausted for the night, I think, so you're safe.Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:19 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Lucky. Respect to your wife
No doubt. We've been dating since undergrad (finally tied the knot a year ago), so I was with her through med school and it was NO joke. I've never seen someone work as hard as she had to. The drive it took for her to make it through that was supa sexy.
I tried to make us a power couple like the Huxtables and gave law school a shot, but it made me feel slimy. Haha
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:22 am to Wanderin Reb
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No doubt. We've been dating since undergrad (finally tied the knot a year ago), so I was with her through med school and it was NO joke. I've never seen someone work as hard as she had to. The drive it took for her to make it through that was supa sexy.
Gotta love a woman with drive like that
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I tried to make us a power couple like the Huxtables and gave law school a shot, but it made me feel slimy. Haha
Hey I can't say anything, my wife makes more than me (not by as much as you'd think, though, surprisingly). Our situations could very well flip when we leave the military, but neither of us are tied too much to the numbers on the paycheck as long as we're happy, ya know?
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:25 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Our situations could very well flip when we leave the military, but neither of us are tied too much to the numbers on the paycheck as long as we're happy, ya know?
Neither my mandhood nor my dick-size are tied to my paycheck, so zero fricks are given.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:36 am to Wanderin Reb
Only way to be!
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:43 am to TbirdSpur2010
shite I didn't even realize you guys had your own OT! I would be the Commander in Chief or a SEAL.
I would be the Commander in Chief or a SEAL.Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:45 am to lsu480
Yeah it got started awhile ago to give the rest of us a place to escape the craziness of the TD-specific OT
And I have a close friend who's a SEAL. They are some no-kidding badasses
And I have a close friend who's a SEAL. They are some no-kidding badasses
Posted on 8/16/13 at 2:57 am to Wanderin Reb
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The military has also filled me when an overwhelming need to feel like what I'm doing is actively helping someone. Despite holding hundreds of lives in your hand while controlling (thinking centers, here), you don't really feel it.
The greatest thing about the military vs. college, (I did both), is that in the military there are things that get instilled in you that rarely get instilled in the college format.
For example, my wife went to college to become a teacher, and now she's unfulfilled. She just got her masters in education and she's asking herself. "Is this what I want to do? I feel like I want to do so much more and I don't know how." She feels like she has to live within her degree.
I keep telling her she can do what ever she wants, but she doesn't see it. She's blocked by that degree to the point that she doesn't understand how she can branch out and help others. She would be great with autistic kids as she's a special ed teacher, finally just this month she started pushing her resume towards hospitals that work with autistic kids.
The point I'm trying to make is, the military might teach you a trade and or skill, but it also teaches you not to be afraid to use all the ancillary skills involved in that trade or skill to achieve your goals in life.
I guess what I'm trying to say is military > college, JMHO though.
This post was edited on 8/16/13 at 2:59 am
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:01 am to TbirdSpur2010
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And I have a close friend who's a SEAL. They are some no-kidding badasses
Well I would hope so!
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:03 am to Remote Controlled
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I guess what I'm trying to say is military > college, JMHO though
For some this is 100% true but for most people it is not. Doing both is a pretty good option. My father did ROTC, started in the army as an officer and worked his way to a Captain in the Army Rangers before leaving to become a stock broker!
This post was edited on 8/16/13 at 3:05 am
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:03 am to Remote Controlled
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I guess what I'm trying to say is military > college, JMHO though.
I think they work well in tandem.
I, too, did both. I did college at OM first, and I wouldn't trade my time there for anything. I met my wife and I had a blast.
However, I then had to join the military in order get the proverbial boot in my arse. I had no direction and no drive when I left college. I was wandering. The military straightened me out. It put a drive and purpose in me that college couldn't even get close to.
That's just me, though. For others, college is exactly what they need. Like my wife - she already had the drive and direction that I lacked. Because of that, she made the most of her college education to work towards getting into medical school and eventually becoming a doctor. She didn't need the military like I did.
I think it's a very subjective decision, but anyone who's struggling to figure out what to do with their life and has a fear of branching out I would suggest the military to.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:27 am to Wanderin Reb
Your story sounds much like mine.
Minus the meeting the wife in college part.
Lets just say I enjoyed being single overseas...
Minus the meeting the wife in college part.
Lets just say I enjoyed being single overseas...
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:38 am to lsu480
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For some this is 100% true but for most people it is not. Doing both is a pretty good option. My father did ROTC, started in the army as an officer and worked his way to a Captain in the Army Rangers before leaving to become a stock broker!
I'd wager that he wouldn't have been as successful in life without the discipline that the military instilled in him.
Ask him sometime. I bet at the least he learned how to make a quick, instinct based decision, that college never taught.
That's the kind of stuff I'm talking about. You never truly know yourself until you're faced with a decision that not only affects yourself but affects others as well.
In the military you get it real quick. Day one.
In college, you won't have to worry about it until you get married.
For some that's too late. Again, this is all MO.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:47 am to Remote Controlled
I can't ask him because he isn't alive but I am sure that he would agree that the military helped his success. He always spoke highly of it. Also, he was married to my mom before he started college or joined the military, he was 17 and she was 18. This was in 1967 though and they had dated since middle school so it was more normal than now :-) They did wait over 10 years before they had children so at least they got to have some fun.
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Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:59 am to MCdawg
I had those punched into my chest so I guess I'll just keep those.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 3:59 am to lsu480
I was a water purifier (didn't choose it). I wouldn't recommend it
Most sexy sounding MOS' s are usually terrible IRL. I wouldn't do Intel or EOD. I would think about switching to Navy as a corpsmen, or stay Marines and be a forward observer, try my hand at Recon, or a planner.
Most sexy sounding MOS' s are usually terrible IRL. I wouldn't do Intel or EOD. I would think about switching to Navy as a corpsmen, or stay Marines and be a forward observer, try my hand at Recon, or a planner.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 4:00 am to Montezuma
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I wouldn't do Intel or EOD.
Mrs. T is Intel and she hates it. Actually she's just more disillusioned with the military than anything.
Posted on 8/16/13 at 4:04 am to TbirdSpur2010
Most intel guys I knew would be stuck in the vaults doing bs admin work. I would have been pissed. Luckily, my pog arse got to do some out of the wire work, while thoseguys had to just sit there, locked away. They got huge in the gym during deployments though
Posted on 8/16/13 at 4:09 am to TbirdSpur2010
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Mrs. T is Intel and she hates it. Actually she's just more disillusioned with the military than anything.
Intel is all about the state of mind you have. It's alright depending on which branch you're in and what your job is. As long as you can find the enjoyable part of your job and focus on that. However if you end up doing the shitty part of intel and end up working shift and getting the shitty shift because you don't have kids or are single. Then life sucks real bad, because the only people you meet are the folks that work at your local 24hr grocery store, Denny's, Ihop, Waffle House, Huddle House or Kettle.
I'd rather be running around in a straw hut fishing all day as I manned a listening station on an abandoned island.
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