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Originally Posted by noefexus
I trodded through 5 miserable years of civilian employment after I graduated college. I realized that this bullshit 9-5, wife and kids, ain't the way I wanna live. I want to push myself beyond all of my self-created limits. I want to know what it feels like to face death. I want to destroy myself--all of my "known" self--and recreate a new person out of the ashes...Only out of self-destruction will you truly evolve and become who you are meant to be.
Only when I give up everything and reach down into my core do I feel truly alive. This is why I joined.
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I did 3.5 years of civilian employment (started when I was 18) including a stint in Washington, D.C. One day I woke up and decided that isn't the the life I wanted anymore, walked in to the local recruiting station and signed up. Before I did that, everything in my life was all screwed up and out of order. Fast forward 3 months to the present and everything is falling back into place. As a 1SG told me when I wasn't sure about signing up or not, either shit or get off the pot.
I work out at the rec center locally because they let military personnel in for free and every morning 2 other soldiers and I always hear stories from guys telling us they "almost" joined and if they go back they would do it in a heartbeat and then we always hear the regrets.
I guess what I am trying to say, and my opinion on this subject doesn't matter, is that it is better to do it now and not like it than to have never done it and always have the "What if?" in the back of your mind.
Plus there is all kinds of older people in college, and from my college experience, it was a lot of wasted time and money. I learned more in Washington, D.C. in 3 months than I did in 2 years of Economics classes. If you are thinking about doing it, get up, do some PT and do it.
Going back under my ruck
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