SORRY If I derailed this topic and commented on the Navy stuff from Loozer
This has nothing to do with EQEMU!
heh, funny you should mention all of this loozer. I was just out there on your ship doing a tech assist and I got a letter from your Admiral Kelly for doing a good job
Let me just say my comments on the Navy. I hated it.. I did 6 years.. BUT.. and I repeat BUT.. it was the best thing I ever did. If I did not go in I would not have gone anywhere with my life..nor learned any skills... and I would prob still be making 7 bucks an hour. Since I had no way to go to college since I was supporting myself on low income and total ignorance of the college programs out there... I went in the Navy.. I made the best of those years and after 6(which i HAD to do 6 for my job) I got out and got a great job doing almost what I did while in.. but with all my freedoms back.. and not to mention I make GREAT money.. about 6 times what I made in the Navy. Now here is the trick... NEVER enter the military if all your going to be is some gunners mate or a non technical job. That is pointless. If you have the brain and the interest.. then make sure you pick a very technical rate. Something like electronics technician. Or perhaps the Information technology folks.. they are not very technical but they learn computer stuff and can get some great schools that help with jobs when they get out. But make sure if you pick Information tech that it is not doing radio comms.. choose the computer path.. don't let the recruiter mess with you. You have a choice. If you don't do something that can score you a great job when you get out then what's the point?
What do you think a very large % of those infantry guys(marines, army).. or Navy Seals do when they get out? Firefighters.. cops.. park rangers...mail men is what they become. If you are fine with that.. then go for it. But I wanted to
do electronics and make more then 40k a year when I got out. I am very glad I suffered 6 years in the navy... as I have a great life now that I would not have had with out them.
P.S. Loozer.. make the best of it.. rough it.. it pays off .. if you doom and gloom and bitch and moan about everything then it won't. If your something like a gunners mate then.. well you screwed there to
sry.. lol
There are exceptions to everything.. some do well no matter what they do. I would not have been one of them... the job I chose and the Navy in general got me where I am today...which is happily married(met my wife at my job, which I got from being in the Navy). House and two cars in Southern California..(again from doing my time in the Navy as a Electronics Tech). I know what got me here, eventough I hated every minute of it. I would do it again if I had the same choices.