I think you’ve misinterpreted what he said
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Agreed. I think he just meant that many people cheat the welfare system. It doesn’t sound like you are in that boat at all since you continuously strive to find work and better yourself.
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I am a nuclear engineer since 2015, and now I am doing a PhD!
It is a great job because I wake up every morning with the motivation to go to work 
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It is pretty neat how many people on this tread are accountants or in a related finance field.
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This is indeed the case. Cheating was the key word in my statement.
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I am a chemical engineer.
Loads of things that I do on the side from time to time Pokemon being one of the larger ones. One day I hope to work only for myself on some of the various things that are side gigs now, but that day is probably a ways away (10-20 years). The pay and benefits are pretty solid at this job and it is helping me fund other major life goals and get a nice nest egg/safety net in place. If something happened with the economy though and my job was cut I am positive I would get by just fine going into working for myself albeit at a greatly reduced income. Living on only a fraction of what my wife and I make now so that transition wouldn’t be hard at all, just the aggressive saving would stop which would make me uncomfortable.
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Local County Government GIS Analyst.
Which is usually followed with a puzzled look, to which I reply…
“I MAKE MAPS”.
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sorry to disappoint you but I’m going back in boys 
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Ya better be going in as an Officer, or that reenlistment bonus better be fat haha
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i actually decided to go back to enlisted. My degree is exercise science/pre physical therapy. I’m going from force recon to trying out for SF 18D. So If I make it I’ll get a bonus plus my jump and dive pay alonn with soccom pay. What’s cool is that there are 3 University that have 18D to physician assistant course. I’ll have my degree so I can cut it to two years or apply to Mee school with that background.
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See that shit is smart. I tried to do something similar with the Parajumper thing, but it wasn’t realistic with my specific degree in med. But I’m glad you found a way to make the system work for ya. Wish more people would use the military to their advantage, instead of the military bending everyone over a barrel and showing them the 50 states.
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I study criminology and work part time at a gas station, my goal is to work for the police on crime prevention or as an investigator
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are you a AF PJ? They go through PJU from what I understand versus all other soccom medics.
I originally went in as one, yes. But I gave it to the next guy I bumped down on the list to ship out when I found out they focus more on the physiology aspect of the degree in their classes, so I wouldn’t get much time for my degree in developmental psychiatry, and it would be difficult to integrate after getting out. Still do their training, though. Shit kicks ass.
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yea I can see where that would lead to different places. I prefer to be in the field. Working with other countries, setting up aid stations, teaching medicine and combat/trauma medicine depending on theater interests me.
It’s good to hear someone getting out and making something of themselves.
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BTW I am a sellout for a living 
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yeah, that’s sick. I thought that’s what I wanted, but I had a change of heart years back, since my family is a bunch of worry warts. Good to see im not the only nerd in the military, even though the AF is more suited for those types haha
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haha youd be surprised by the number of nerds in military especially the special operations community. We had a life size Batman statue in our dive locker.
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Did he have snorkels on, too? Lol
no, but he had fins on each hand haha. I don’t know how they did it but we wall lockers stacked 2 high and he was on top of that.
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