Things I'm glad I did not do: join the military.
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Things I'm glad I did not do: join the military.
I had considered it after HS for the GI bill. Plus after 2008 it was like... "well what the fuck am I gonna do there are NO fucking jobs." Plus mentally I was like, "better to choose than to be chosen, conscripts don't get the GI bill." (Not *quite* true... but... that's what I had heard... esp from ex-Vietnam vets).
I got talked out of it by my ex-wife ("you're seriously gonna go die in Iraq?"), and by my mother ("I don't want my kid to come back in a coffin," funny because she usually barely cared that I existed unless I upset her somehow).
I had also considered enlisting in NOAACC (yes, we have uniformed meteorologists) for a while, or PHC (health corps, doctors in uniform too).
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