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I joined because I was really tired of working minimum wage in my mid 20's, so I definitely agree that the civilian life can be bad. I'm also jealous of the people who can find enough to like about the service to do the full 20, but for the love of god, I don't get why in the world you would go to a job you hate for that long just to get a paycheck. Being a civilian now is pretty dope, and if you are single and/or smart with money at all, I think it's hard to make a strong case for staying in for more than one hitch.
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Snowdens Secret posted:It was the 'weekends are not yours, evenings are not yours, when you go home has zero correlation to your workload and effort, have your phone on you always, don't tell anyone where you're going, don't plan anything in your life >24 hours in advance because that's likely to change, etc etc etc' bullshit that made me loathe the Navy, not the crud pay and benefits. Yup, that stuff was the worst. Wife and I were talking the other day about how we didn't really do much sightseeing/tourism stuff in California, and how we never really went further north than LA, and then I remembered that it was impossible to plan anything and taking a three day weekend to go up to SF or somewhere would involve burning 3 days of leave, cuz LOL @ getting a 72 hour chit approved! Deployments would have been OK if the command would have made even a half rear end attempt to accommodate us poor bastards that worked nights, or not treated us like little babies whenever we pulled into a port. edit: From what I understand, pre 9/11 Navy was pretty alright, and if I had been enlisted in the mid to late 90's I probably would have stuck around for retirement. bengy81 fucked around with this message at 22:40 on Sep 6, 2014 |
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buttplug posted:Here's a good place to start: Welp, good to know the old boys club is dead! 
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Mad Dragon posted:It'll be funny when the only people still in are all the old fart flag officers and they have to do all the bitch work the enlisted used to do. Death by Administration!!!!!!
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buttplug posted:Oh, is that what it is? I totally didn't get that the first time around. Oh poo poo, when did this become the military.com forums?
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That's actually pretty much the attitude of every single lifer junior officer I ever met. So congrats Boot! You just got to experience your first bit of lovely Navy suckiness!
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