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I need honest help/opinions.
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I signed up for the Navy today. Well, I quit my job and signed up for the Navy. It wasn't planned or anything, I just have days sometimes where I get really bored with the weekly routine (IE working at my job). Main reason being I would rather be out with friends or doing something else. So anyway, I quit, and go out to look for a new job. Long story short I came across a Navy recruitment center, took the test, scored very high, and now I'm scheduled to get sworn in (sign my soul away).

Now, without the military in my life, I would be going to a popular community college for my general AA, and then off for my Bachelors in Botany or Marketing. The problem with this option is that I'm afraid I will fuck it up, via drugs and/or alcohol which I regularly indulge in frequently.

If I do join the military I have to get a detox.
If I stay home I have to work in these shitty teen jobs to help pay for college.
If I go in the military my friends and family will be VERY upset/sad
If I join I also have to give up my drug habit
If I stay I might end up a burnout lowlife smoking and drinking daily


I'm seriously torn on this issue. If I join the military the fact that I sworn myswelf in and I HAVE to do it will keep going the full 4 years, but I'm not sure which is the better choice thus far.

Any thoughts or comments?

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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If you can't handle life then maybe you should join the navy.
Its like big kid daycare.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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Military life is good for some...not so good for others. I have heard that if you need a kick in the ass it really does help. But, if you are a mature and independent person the military will completely wear you down.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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oh any maybe get out of florida, Fl gets lame after a while.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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The navy never engages in combat, and is a breeze compared to other branches. I'd say you made the right choice.


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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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It's a tough issue. If you stick with the routine (which with some effort you CAN change) you can have your partying days and learn by your mistakes that everybody makes, and then get tired of it and move on, be with your school buds until school's over and have no more party influences, and just enjoy it while it lasts. If you go to the military, everything is whisked away, get training in a field of your liking (I believe you can change MOS if you decide you don't like it) and after four years be a respectable member of society, but miss all your party years and have a new lifestyle. I've always been torn on this issue, as their are goods and bads to both sides of the argument. Shitty temporary teen jobs blow no matter what it is, but if you like partying then try to find a decent job and cut back a little bit. Of course, if you join the military, you could find that things are better off. Come to think of it, I'm as confused and torn as you are.

Review what your real goals/needs are and compare them with what you want at this point in time. Things change over time. Hopefully I'm not confusing and irritating you more. I just realized I wouldn't make a good psychiatrist. Someone else could help.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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If I do join the military I have to get a detox.


no, yo have to quit, it has to be clean by the time you take your physical

If I go in the military my friends and family will be VERY upset/sad

I'm sure they'll be real proud of a burnout druggie

If I join I also have to give up my drug habit

yep.

If I stay I might end up a burnout lowlife smoking and drinking daily

make mom proud, it's too late to back out now and you'll get good benefits
including better college options and paid tuition


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California Has Legalized Child Prostitution

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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Not to sound harsh, but if you've signed on the dotted line, the Navy owns you for a few years, so the rest is just a moot point. Who knows? You may find your niche in there.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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I'm not sworn in yet, that comes thursday. I'm just considering my options. Thanks for the comments so far.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: RandalFlagg]
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RandalFlagg said:
Military life is good for some...not so good for others. I have heard that if you need a kick in the ass it really does help. But, if you are a mature and independent person the military will completely wear you down.


That sounds about right...

I think it really comes down to what kind of personality you have, and what stage you are at in your life. It could be good, and it could be bad...


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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Papaver]
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How about the reserves?

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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Innominate said:
I'm not sworn in yet, that comes thursday. I'm just considering my options. Thanks for the comments so far.


it's too late for option considerations, you're under contract, to back out now
will instantly get you a dishonorable and possibly worse, good luck finding a
decent job with that on you. the smart thing is to simply go in, do your time
and collect what the government is willing to give. the Navy is a cake walk


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California Has Legalized Child Prostitution

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Prisoner#1]
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Prisoner#1 said:
Innominate said:
I'm not sworn in yet, that comes thursday. I'm just considering my options. Thanks for the comments so far.


it's too late for option considerations, you're under contract, to back out now
will instantly get you a dishonorable and possibly worse, good luck finding a
decent job with that on you. the smart thing is to simply go in, do your time
and collect what the government is willing to give. the Navy is a cake walk


But I'm not. He put me into the system, but I never signed anything. I have a packet of paperwork that he wanted me to fill out and bring back today, so I still have options. I have no obligation to them- yet.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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I recomend the 4 year tour, it starts tough, 6 weeks of hell, after that you hit A
school and you're home free, live on base, bank your money, when you're ready to
discharge they'll hit you with a re-up bonus that can be as high as $35k just to
spend 4 more years, you'll be doing that as an inactive reserve anyway, why not
remain active and milk the government tit.


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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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Alright, so if I do decide to go, what career should I pursue in it? I like science and electronics. I also love the water. Like I said I wanted to go into botany (after being on this site I have come to love nature and plants). But there isn't anything related to botany or biology in the Navy. When it comes to science there is meteorological work or Neucleor work... I'm not interested in either of those. I was thinking about maybe becoming a diver, just because I love to swim and it sounds better than watching SONAR all day long. What are careers in the Navy that you KNOW people don't get bored with?

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Corporal Kielbasa]
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Corporal Kielbasa said:
If you can't handle life then maybe you should join the navy.
Its like big kid daycare.


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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Rambel]
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Rambel said:
Corporal Kielbasa said:
If you can't handle life then maybe you should join the navy.
Its like big kid daycare.





Trust me, I can handle going to college with my FAFSA money and living with my parents while I go from job to job to pay for insurence, books, booze, and drugs. Once my girlfriend graduates with her medical degree I can also live with her as my crutch and maybe not even work. When my parents die I can live with my inheritance. All in all I can live a pretty comfortable life either way.

With that being said, I'm not a fucking leech or bum, and I'm trying to make something of myself.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Rambel]
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my bud did navy, he's a loser and quit it early and got a dishonorable discharge, but he's glad he went, got to see the world more than if he didnt join.

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: Innominate]
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/salute


we thank you

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Re: I need honest help/opinions. [Re: goobler]
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don't make a decision for the next four years of your life based on how bored you are today. i fucked up and did that, but i got lucky and i was "administratively seperated" from the air force during tech school (NOT a dishonorable discharge).

i hated being there, and the day they told me they couldn't give me the job i had signed up for and i could go home was the best news i have ever heard. its a lot more routine than the real world, and someone's always watching you. if you want to find out about being under control, join the military. if you want to have a free spirit, stay home.


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