I am a military veteran and currently a Reserve member, and I wanted to go back to active and commission, and eventually go to a war college. But my doctor has recommended me to get tested for diabetes, which will probably end my military career aspirations if I turn out to have it.
I was thinking of what else I want to do out in the civilian world. I was looking into studying IR, but I don't know what sort of work would be out there for me. Foreign service officer? That's the only thing I can think of. I wanted to go back to active because, and this can sound like bullshit to someone who never served, but I liked taking care of my troops and leading them. I liked the type of people who join and working on them. There isn't really an equivalent for what I want out in the civilian world, or at least I don't think.
Is there really something that's close to being like a military officer? I was gonna be a Marine Officer.
>Is there really something that's close to being like a military officer? I was gonna be a Marine Officer.
No. There is no job out like being officer. As an officer you're a weird combination of Manager, Jury/Judge, Babysitter, athletic coach, logistics coordinator, and parent. There's plenty of jobs where you lead people, but none even come close to the amount authority and responsibility you have for the well being of the troops you lead.
The closest I could think is airline pilots and cargo ship captain.
>The closest I could think is airline pilots and cargo ship captain.
doesnt feel the same at all.
It's the people under you that you're shaping that makes it different. I wanted to be all:
>Manager, Jury... and parent
It's like running a kindergarten with guns. I have no delusion that I am joining some "elite force" or some bullshit. Imagine the NJP/DUI statistics. The Marines are like dogs. Dogs are rambunctious, and they smear shit on the walls. They need constant attention and handholding. They need a lot of physical activity to relieve their energy. They're pack animals that easily get agitated and lonely. You need to walk them, and you pick up after their shit. They're such pack animals that they look towards you for reassurance while they're taking a shit. But dogs are fun as hell, though they're a lot of work. These kids enlisted not because of soulless insect reasons like "free college", "get a great civilian job after", "the most benefits for the least effort", but for romantic notions like "becoming the best", "camaderie", "earning it", "the challenge", "become part of something bigger" so it draws in certain personality types. They are even willing to risk their lives and die. Yes, their reasons seem moronic and don't align with the values of secular modern capitalist society. Go ahead and laugh. Their ideal and hopes might even be total bullshit, but I can respect it and believe in it. I think there is something very valuable to a mindset like this that is often overlooked. I want to be part of the team that channels their mindset, energy, and motives into cultivating strong minds, bodies, and souls. We can create something incredibly powerful that can't be measured by mere dollars and statistics. Where else in the modern US can you find people like this? I wanted to adopt this as my life work and legacy, and have Marines at my funeral. This path matches my priority and my values. Being a Marine officer is incredibly based and kino.
I'm not reading all that, but whatever then wait until you hear back from the doctor and pursue a commission if you're able.
You're gonnna be in for a harsh reality check when you get to a unit and nobody gives a frick about anything you just said, or the months/years of training and work you had to put into get your commission. You'll just be another stupid butterbar who comes up with lame PT plans to them.
Either way man good luck.
>t. Army Officer
you could become a teacher. especially a math teacher.
I've thought of becoming a HS teacher or a college professor. It's not the same and they have their own bureaucratic bullshit. I have to think about this more.
I taught lab classes in college, I thought it was pretty great.
do you need a master's? being a college professor is competitive
You could've just said 'I love the taste of dick' without typing all that (didnt read it btw it looked really gay)
Sounds like you just want to work with dogs. Maybe look into becoming a dog trainer?
yeah OP acting like he's gonna be a running a pound lmao
>I wanted to adopt this as my life work and legacy, and have Marines at my funeral.
Grow up and stop being a fricking idiot and I say that having known people who were marines all the way through ww2 and korea. Seriously stop being a fricking moron. Go run a warehouse and get to be the one in the office but if you had ever been an officers you would already know that.
>neverserved
Yeah cool dude. Anyway, your job as a Marine officer will be asking an NCO what the hell is going on half the time while all the dog children you want to own roll their eyes and call you a gay amongst themselves
You're going to work at Walmart and like it.
Nothing wrong with being a WalMart Greeter or a Tard Wrangler.
>You're going to work at Walmart and like it.
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Not even national guard?
>...Marine Orifice
Kindergarden Teacher?
Dog Walker?
if you're wanting to babysit man toddlers-get into residential construction, specifically the trades that do the unlicensed work. You're gonna have a good cash income. you'll only be out of work if you try to avoid it. now many things you can do yourself if you have a lick of sense. the guys who'll work for you are gonna be a mix, but they're mostly just undisciplined. you find good ones and hold on them. not so much good at their job, but the ones who still have a car AND their license. Don't take jobs for people who b***h about price because they'll b***h about everything else, don't get more than a single client at a time, especially big projects. most of all don't leave your laborers alone, because that's how they frick up. Framing houses, siding, trim, insulation, managing projects, pool installs, tile, paneling, deck building, putting up porch screens and rails- I promise if you're not a complete idiot you won't frick it up, and luckily a gopher or apprentice starts out just above the handicapped level. You'll work around some genuinely good guys and if you have good clients they'll provide.
sounds like its what the amish do
which is why they do it. they're fricking numbskulls and too odd to hold other kinds of jobs, that's almost job in itself of chauffeuring them and their tools to jobsites. I've never heard good things about amish workers-stubborn, nasty, and their prices reflect the work they do- it will be passable but not good enough to do much else.
This dog would look very cute with a daisy in its hair!
High school short bus driver.
>tard wranglin'
>logistics and time management
>moving through hostile territory
>>tard wranglin'
pretty much sums up the military
Good luck anon!!!
High-school teacher.
Military officers are just glorified tard wranglers
The actual unironic answer is some government pencil-pusher who works 10AM-5PM with a 90-minute lunch in the middle, and whose entire job is to process permits and spreadsheets in his department, who makes 60k a year plus absurdly good benefits. Alternatively, some similar desk job at a logistics company.
The answer in your (probably neverserved) imagination of a romanticized version of the marine officer job? Game wardens, park rangers, and especially the managers of them.
put down the fork and go for a jog you fat frick
I am fit as frick
If you have diabetes, clearly not.
town rapist.
>Hey terminally online weebs of PrepHole plz give me career advice
checkout NOAA or USCG
>Civilian job that is the closest to being a military officer
gay porn comes close
you get fricked in the ass, good chance of getting aids and dying, and you're paid for being a homosexual
Just run for public office or get a civilian job for the Defense Deparment.
sounds awful