After turning 30 something yah boy has decided to enlist in The US Air Force

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Interesting.

Not really. Very few enlisted jobs translate especially well to $$$ on the outside. Mostly intel, contracting (contracts/purchasing, not hanging drywall :dead:), and cyber jobs. Anything with a TS can get you paid.

Most other jobs are sus, and a lot of jobs that don't have you riding a desk can fukk up your ability to go to school.

Folks that want to be lawyers and doctors think paralegal and medic jobs will get them closer to that goal, until they realize the muhfukkers from finance and MPF that don't work but half a day 3 days a week have more free time, get the same check and benefits, and have less stress than they do. More free time = more time to do school and/or a side hustle.
 

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Not really. Very few enlisted jobs translate especially well to $$$ on the outside. Mostly intel, contracting (contracts/purchasing, not hanging drywall :dead:), and cyber jobs. Anything with a TS can get you paid.

Most other jobs are sus, and a lot of jobs that don't have you riding a desk can fukk up your ability to go to school.

Folks that want to be lawyers and doctors think paralegal and medic jobs will get them closer to that goal, until they realize the muhfukkers from finance and MPF that don't work but half a day 3 days a week have more free time, get the same check and benefits, and have less stress than they do. More free time = more time to do school and/or a side hustle.
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Not really. Very few enlisted jobs translate especially well to $$$ on the outside. Mostly intel, contracting (contracts/purchasing, not hanging drywall :dead:), and cyber jobs. Anything with a TS can get you paid.

Most other jobs are sus, and a lot of jobs that don't have you riding a desk can fukk up your ability to go to school.

Folks that want to be lawyers and doctors think paralegal and medic jobs will get them closer to that goal, until they realize the muhfukkers from finance and MPF that don't work but half a day 3 days a week have more free time, get the same check and benefits, and have less stress than they do. More free time = more time to do school and/or a side hustle.
:mjcry: My plan was to do 6 years and get out.
I didn’t know it was that bad
 

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I wish I stayed in. I'd be 4 years from retirement, have a house and good credit. :francis:
At your age you might as well do 20 years. then once you retire from the military, you'll damn near be old enough to retire from working period. Military retirement is half your base pay for the rest of your life.
 

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I wish I stayed in. I'd be 4 years from retirement, have a house and good credit. :francis:
At your age you might as well do 20 years. then once you retire from the military, you'll damn near be old enough to retire from working period. Military retirement is half your base pay for the rest of your life.

Retirement gets calculated differently now, unless I am much mistaken. :jbhmm:
 
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Retirement gets calculated differently now, unless I am much mistaken. :jbhmm:
I think if you came
In after 2017 you’re on the BRS which lets you take the money you put into your TSP with you if you don’t do 20 when I hit 20 I can leave with 40%. But the BRS gives a continuation bonus at 12 years as an incentive to do 20. I enrolled into
It because they match 5% of your TSP contributions and that’s where I put deployment/bonus money anyway
 

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I think if you came
In after 2017 you’re on the BRS which lets you take the money you put into your TSP with you if you don’t do 20 when I hit 20 I can leave with 40%. But the BRS gives a continuation bonus at 12 years as an incentive to do 20. I enrolled into
It because they match 5% of your TSP contributions and that’s where I put deployment/bonus money anyway

Yeah, it's your TSP along with your check which is (high-36 average x 2% x years), I think. :francis:
 
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