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the US military seems like a place people go when they don't know what else to do with their life and that's always made me sad
@beardalaxy If they deploy and they don't get shot, which is most noncombat MOS's, they'll walk away pretty set up. Kick myself for not volunteering for a deployment. I would have been able to buy a house a lot sooner.
@NotImportant maybe a few years ago it wouldn't have been so bad, but right now you're walking a tightrope
@beardalaxy Worked out for me
@poastoak @beardalaxy i didn't go, now i grow potatoes, i think i won tbh.
@givenup @beardalaxy I also grow potatoes and I own a 5% stake in the ground they're growing in
@beardalaxy Most are forced by their parents. Even though they legally can't force their children in the military, there is a loophole if the child is struggling to find a job the parents can make an ultimatum "either you visit the nearest recruiting center or you are out of the house". That would've been me if I didn't go to college.
