Sunday, 05 April 2009
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Gulliver's Travels (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics)
By Jonathan Swift
see relatedWell, I know I have discussed this with most of you, but for all the people I haven't talked to, here goes:
I am re enlisting for 6 more years. I was completely of the mind that I was getting out of the Army until I went home on leave. What I saw was a huge wake up call. The people I know haven't really done much with their lives (no offense, but that isn't for me.) The people who don't have degrees get replaced on a whim. The people who do have degrees have trouble keeping the shitty jobs they DO have. The people that have degrees and are still in school have humongous amounts of debt, and the parents of my friends who have degrees and have held jobs for 20 plus years, are now losing them.
I make about $50,000 a year. If I went to school, I would be lucky to be able to make half that and have the job security I have now. 15 years from now, I can retire with a pension big enough for house and car payments, and I won't have to lift a finger if I don't want to. Sure, this job isn't always the safest, but in a sick way, that kind of makes it fun. I am doing what everybody else watches on TV. I walk through random places with a fresh hair cut and get hand shakes from strangers. I have friends from all over the US. I am a part of something way bigger than myself. I don't want to give this up. I would really be an idiot.
The civilian world is definetly not the utopia I thought it was. I had no idea how much better I have it until I went back to the states. No offense to anyone, but I finally realized that I may have made the right choice by signing up in the first place. Y'all have a lot more struggle ahead of you than me. Good luck.
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Comments (3)
Sounds like a logical decision; I hope it turns out well for you of course. As you've obviously found out with the army things never work out exactly how you expect them to. So I have to say in reference to this statement: "Y'all have a lot more struggle ahead of you than me," don't get smug just yet since there is really no way for you to know this for sure. Plus, what you may see as a struggle others may not. Also, just because you say "no offense" doesn't make something unoffensive, just sayin. Anyway, you (hopefully) know that I only wish you the best (a cliche, for lack of a better phrase) and I really do hope this works out for you. Whenever you are back for real, or for more than a week or so, we should hang out again.. last time was kind of lame.
hey J! We did have a chance to talk about this and I knew it was comming, I just didn't expect it so quick. I'm glad that you have found something you enjoy doing, I just hope your talking about the job you were going to start in January...I like shaking people's hands too so that's cool! Your in a whole different world then we are in the states and maybe at this time you don't belong here, I could never do what you do and you could never do what i do...so it works out! I appreciate you as a person and a solder, i'm really glad I got time with you. I'm proud of you.
That was probably a smart move, man. Kohler just laid of 455 people the other day. Jobs are somewhat scarce, though you wouldn't have much problem with getting by if you used the GI bill to go to school. A lady at work yesterday was talking about how she thinks people are going to start going postal over the massive layoffs occuring throughout the country, and I think she is somewhat right. There were three random shootings last week throughout the country that were at least partially motivated by job loss. A systemic collapse is not necessarily imminent, but nobody should write it off right now. Hopefully Barack "the Bankers' bitch" Obama will see the light soon and stop causing things to stagnate through the shittiest fiscal policy possible.