I am having a hard time finding a job that competes with the Army... any ideas?

Question

I was in the Army for about 6 months, I loved it! I want to go back really bad, but I have a wait time to heal and get back in shape, and so I have to work while I'm waiting... I just can't find anything as satisfying as training and learning, growing and serving every day. :) I miss it.

Answer 1

This is how I feel about it. There are a lot of good, hard, jobs out there. I worked on the gas rigs, construction, maintenance on 135 ' lighting towers at stadiums, etc. Each job is as easy or as hard, or exciting as you make it. Yep! I missed the Army. I was SF, Abn, Rng, 11B and 18 B and retired. I went to work in civilian life not because I had to but because I wanted to. My experience is that a lot of people in the civilian world who were never in the military, and some that were and were REMF's, had poor work ethics and were mostly assholes. The ones who knew the least were usually in charge due to affiliations with lodges (Masons, Elks, Eagles, Vol. Fire Company, etc.) religion, or family. Some were good and some were and are slackers. Some didn't know that they didn't know. As a former senior NCO I had to bite my tongue many times. Personally, I wished I could have stayed in the military until I was to old to keep up with the younger troopers but wishes don't always come true.... so, you work with what and who you have. I always went by this rule in and out of the military. If you don't like your job you won't do well in it so do what is going to make you happy and content. If you like the military more than the civilian life style you know where the recruiter's station is at. Unfortunately for me there wasn't, nor is, a great need for someone to jump out of fixed or rotary winged aircraft, take and hold a certain objective, and kill people. Even those who piss you off! Civilians have no sense of humor on that subject so I used my previous college that I received while on active duty and used my benefits to start and finish a degree in electrical construction, maintenance, design, and engineering. Now, I have three pensions and SSI to live off of along with Uncle Sam's and make about $85,000.00 sitting on my *** and reading comments from total assholes like faulty cortex and sea link two who evidently never had a plan in their pathetic life. You do what makes you happy. If serving your country for 20 or 30 years and retiring at the ripe old age of 37, 38, 39, 40, or 47, 48, 49, or 50 appeals to you then do it while the previous mentioned work their butts off for another 20 years and won't have half of the bene's you will and I do! Check it out. Unless you're a CEO or president or VERY high up on the management ladder you are going to be sweating out the last years of your life. Dying? Hell, read the papers, watch the news. More people die a violent death right here in this country per year than over in Iraq or any other place we're at. I was wounded on three occasions during three consecutive tours of combat ( one light, two serious ). My older brother was killed by a hit and run driver right here in the good old USA in front of my family! A lot of people that I graduated from high school with are now dead due to some type of violent death. Out of 20 who went to Viet-nam, 3 were killed there. So tell me, where is it safer at?!?! To me, civilian life sucks boo-coo big time but sooner or later we all wind up here. I just wanted to make sure I wound up here with a whole lot of money in my wallet and if I didn't like my job or the boss I could tell them to go to hell and not miss a beat. The decision is yours to make and yours alone. Good luck!

Answer 2

I worked for the U.S. Forest Service as a summer-time forestry aid (aka wildland firefighter). It was the most physically demanding job I have ever enjoyed. You train every day, do some sort of high intensity work out each morning as a group and you get to see some of the most beautiful locations this country has to offer. It can be more intense than when I was in the Marines.

Try to get hired on out on the west coast because that is where the most fires happen and teh fire season is the longest. The Morman Rocks station in the Cajon Pass of the San Bernardino National Forest is the busiest fire engine station, or any of the Hot Shot crews on the west coast stay busy all summer. The top of the heap is the helitack air mobile hot shot (had crews).

Answer 3

*sigh* Someone has disorders. Yes, we're more commonly no longer the identical as guys biologically, chemically, intellectually or emotionally. Please observe that "no longer the identical" isn't awesome and it isn't inferior. It's quite simply one-of-a-kind. There are areas wherein females don't have any option however to compete with guys. Those might be areas wherein quite often each person competes with each person else - physical games, industry, and many others. In the ones locations, we don't seem to be insisting on whole equality. We are insisting on LEGAL equality - i.e. if I'm doing a larger task than one in every of my coworkers who occurs to be male, I will not lose out on a promoting simply on the grounds that he's a person. I should not be paid much less for the identical paintings as a person. I will not face authorized disorders quite simply on the grounds that I used to be born with extra genetic fabric than my male opposite numbers. Culturally it is a further factor. Women had been and constantly shall be dealt with another way from guys. The main points of that experience converted over time and can maintain to difference, however I do not foresee that main truth being altered any time quickly. All we are soliciting for isn't to permit that end up an excuse to maintain us from doing what we will be able to and what we like. The leisure of your examples are too countless to say individually. Just for illustration, despite the fact that - guys pay baby help greater than females on the grounds that females have a tendency to be the custodial caregiver after a divorce. In different phrases, the baby lives with the mummy. It alternatively is smart, then, that the daddy pay baby help. If the predicament is reversed, then the girl can pay the baby help. There are an identical seen solutions to each different one in every of your objections. Oh - and you are loose to not open any doorways for me, as it kind of feels to be a predicament.

Answer 4

Go to school! Become an officer in the Military. It's worth it. Take it one step further go to a school that has an ROTC program. Dude you'll love it. Then you finish up and your a 2nd lieutenant moving up to Captain within 2 yrs. (from what I heard). Plus Major in something you like at the college. If you want to get into law enforcement after the military I recommend (Foreign language (Arabic is HOT! and pays well), Accounting, Science,Technology) This is nice for FBI jobs maybe CIA. Have a Plan.

Answer 5

Depends on your job in the Army. Ex-army people are often recruited because of their training and discipline.

The problem is that the excitement and adventure that you seek would require that you are well enough to go back into the army anyway.

Maybe try some seasonal work, or work in mines.

Good luck.

Answer 6

Police cadet. The training is hard and military style plus you will have a back up plan when your done with your millitary career. Also try being a fireman,paramedic,or school teacher, these are also great ways to serve our country. I know what you mean though I also sometimes miss the Army! Hoorah! But, I often come back to my senses though when I think about the war in Iraq.

Answer 7

Get a job at your local 7-11, or McDonalds. That's what your Army experience has prepared you for.

Answer 8

Recycling cardboard at night