Could've gotten with a company, built a rep and just parlayed that in to business management consulting
Any stories about people in the military dying to get out but pop up at the unit again trying to get back in months later? 😂😂😂😂 this is real!!!
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Dzali OG
Dz Ali OG...Pay me like you owe me!
Bruh theres no way around it. And I juelzed myself for a while, but retiring from the military is a cheat code.
How and where can you beat retiring at 38-40 and receiving the type benefits you do from the military? You have your pension, disability and whatever else.
On top of that you can get paid to go to school and get your degree. PAID TO GO TO SCHOOL!!!! Not just school paid for.
So you have a guaranteed salary of from 60k to 80k...without working a single day more. Then if you go to school that can be another $20k to $30k for going to school. That's 6 figures without working a job!!!
I'm sorry bruh but you can't beat that.
O.T.I.S.
Veteran
Did’t say I disagreed
I was med sep/retired but with the way the PT tests are set up now, shyt I sometimes wonder if I could probably kick it in reserves and get that active duty retirement time
So people do come back in after a few years. I know a chick that quit her job as a teacher just to be reserve and dual hop her way into retirement.
But like I said, they changed something with retirement to where it’s like you just get paid with the money you put in or some shyt. Too many bum lifers anyway.
Plus, more than one way to skin a cat. Military not for everybody
ajnapoleon
Veteran
Damn breh
I was at that point I wanted out but my ex wife got me to stay
Best decision ever made by me now I work just to get out the house
If I really wanted to I can not work at all
Retiring in your 50s is a privilege, I couldn’t imagine retiring in your 40s let alone 38.
I wanted to sign up at 20 but I never got that push that I needed. My friends were like na b don’t join
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It would have suited my personality to a T. I excelled at being organized and having a command structure, oh well
I’m definitely going to encourage my boy to enlist if he’s showing interest.
I wanted to sign up at 20 but I never got that push that I needed. My friends were like na b don’t join
. It would have suited my personality to a T. I excelled at being organized and having a command structure, oh well
I’m definitely going to encourage my boy to enlist if he’s showing interest.
I just retired after 23 years and they asking for people to come back in.Belize King
I got concepts of a plan.
You grinded, found your lane, networked, and stuck to it. How many people from your hood, your age are doing the same?
Successful people will find a way to be successful in many cases. Some people are smart, work hard, but are stuck making 60K.
Why chance coming to the civilian side, trying to get a govt job, to not get it when you can stay in for another 12. I get you have to deal with a lot of BS, but civilian side is the same.
After my little speech, I tell them to please have a plan. Also, get your medical in line so you can file for your disability as soon as you get out.
I got out after four, got 100%, went to college and then got BAH +grants for undergraduate and graduate school. I'm 80 trillion time happier. I got to spend my youth living where I wanted to live and enjoying life. All my homies that are still in look 10 years older then me.Keeping it...if you got out the military before your 20 years...you've played yourself!
Take it from someone who regrets it every day.
It's worked out in the end for me, but all my friends who did their 20 were basically rich and kicked back before me. I was out here scrambling because I took the security of the military for granted.
At the least you have better leave with 100% disability. Anything other than that you fumbled a bag.
One of my homies that got out the same month as me just sold his business for 7 figures. He wouldn't of have had that opportunity if he'd stayed in.
It really depends on your MOS. Know a bunch of commissioned officers who can’t wait to get out after 5 years that are captains now. The army can make anything unbearable and stupid. Toxic leadership, quite a few things will make you get before 20.
Just have a plan before you get out. But the 20 years ain’t for everyone. Met a bunch of dudes miserable because they are at 14 years and just staying in for that retirement.
Just have a plan before you get out. But the 20 years ain’t for everyone. Met a bunch of dudes miserable because they are at 14 years and just staying in for that retirement.
Ironically you might be stationed at a base in AlabamaI tell young Airmen and Sailors all the time to stay in. Civilian life is for the birds. It’s hard out here. Do your twenty and get your bachelors and masters before getting out. When your 38, you have a retirement and skills to get a GS12-14 position somewhere.
Spoke you one last week.
Me: “How much more time you have in Oki?”
Him: “I got one more month.”
Me: “What’s your next duty station?”
Him: “I’m getting out. I want to be a contractor.”
Me: “You AVI? You good then, I could link you with 10 companies that needs avi techs right now.”
Him: “Naw, I’m a crew chief”
I don’t know how crew chiefs translate in the civilian work. I doubt it does. Maybe helicopters or emergency firefighters.
Point is, 12 more years you have TriCare for life plus other benefits. Imagine being taken care of for 8 years, traveling the world, smashing foreign, getting promoted to E-6 just to leave and get a job making 50K somewhere if you are lucky.
Now you have bills and shyt. You smashing local Alabama women and have to pay your own rent.
Alabama women.
Even if you have a high skill job (IT, nursing, nuclear), most of the time the money will always be there when you get out.
#finishthetwenty
Belize King
I got concepts of a plan.
I see jobs for Redstone all the time.Ironically you might be stationed at a base in Alabama
My Wife said she will never move to Alabama or Mississippi.
I’d do Huntsville for 175K though.
