Advice thread

FETCHER. · 05-31-2011, 08:18 AM

Scottish education is free, until you want to further your degree and get a masters which costs about 5 grand

. I know if I wanted to go to uni in England I'd have to pay, which is ****ing ridiculous.

~~Dirty~~ · 05-31-2011, 09:31 AM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

Wow, that's a lot of money for student loans, especially for community college or something. Is tuition really that high in the US? I know I won't have to pay much more than $50 or $60 K including interest when I finish university.

No, it's like super cheap to go to a community college, but you're commuting instead of living on a campus and it's just...different than normal college. Then most states have a lot of state colleges, mine has like 13ish or something I believe. And all the tuitions are similiar. It's like $4K a semester or something. Big schools are more expensive, like $10K a semester, and private colleges are ridiculously expensive. Also, if you go to school out of your state, it's way more expensive. Overall I really like our system but others seems to have some sort of problem with it.

Queen Boo · 05-31-2011, 10:16 AM

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Originally Posted by crash_override

Terrible idea, for more than one reason.

I personally don't think you're serious about it, considering you don't even know which branch you want to go into. That tells me you haven't done very much research on the topic, and probably aren't seriously considering it.

I don't think you have the patience, self control, or mental fortitude to make it through boot camp, let alone Fleet Marine Force (FMF) school, which is the closest thing to an actual field medic you will actually see in todays military. And honestly, even if you did have what it takes, you would probably end up pregnant within the first year, which would disqualify you from school and you would spend your days sweeping floors and picking up trash around the base.

Even if you did become a Hospital Corpsman, or Medical assistant in non-Navy branches, you would probably spend most of your time giving penicillin shots in peoples asses and making appointments for old retired veterans.

I personally joined for the same reason, to get training and free school. But after going through almost everything and seeing what the military has to offer, my advice is this. Don't believe what you see in movies, the military is nothing like you think it is. It's boring, tedious, political, hypocritical, and back-stabbing. It will eat your soul.

Just take out a few hundred thousand in student loans and go to community college.

Um

I know I'm not stupid, lazy, or a slave to my sexual urges. Good advice though. You're a top notch guy Crash.

I don't know, I want to help people, its the only thing that makes me feel like my life is meaningful. If I did that for a living, I would be very happy. I could just get a profession thats decent and easy and volunteer on the side but I'm 17 years old! I figure I'm young enough to be at least a bit ambitious.
I'm a good student. Not a great student, a good student. I'm a decent athlete. Not a great athlete but a decent one. I will probably not get a scholarship. I'm not sure about loans but flipping burger for a few years to pay for college doesn't seem so bad. The idea of being a medic is a very new one to me but I thought it was a decent solution to my problem. Granted, I don't necessarily trust the government, nor do I approve of the war or want to shoot at people, but I have no moral opposition to giving sick people medical care. I thought I could be a nurse at first but somebody told me you had to have nurse training beforehand. Silly, since I don't want to be a nurse and would just be frittering away my life.
I don't expect it to be fun or exciting, really, although in the back of my mind I'm expecting parts of it to be absolutely terrifying. One of the qualities I like most about myself is my ability to work under pressure. When I need to, I can shut off my mind and do the things that need to be done. I figured this would be a good quality for someone in that sort of profession to have. Basically, the millitary>McDonalds because I would get to help people so I would feel like my life had meaning, and I would probably get the money faster.

I do need to do more research about this but I don't even get out of high school for a year. I have some time to figure out what I'm going to do with myself. Thanks again everybody.

Burning Down · 05-31-2011, 10:25 AM

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Originally Posted by Tumor

Um

Good advice though.

I think he was being really brutally honest with you there, but I don't think the statement about getting pregnant was necessary....

Queen Boo · 05-31-2011, 11:47 AM

This conversation is like a wood chipper to the ego.
I think I like it better this way than having everything sugarcoated.
EDIT: Also, even if I was deployed I'd still be able to get a coathanger, right?

djchameleon · 05-31-2011, 02:17 PM

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Originally Posted by Burning Down

I think he was being really brutally honest with you there, but I don't think the statement about getting pregnant was necessary....

he brings it up because that's what happens most of the time so he's talking from experience especially with navy girls.

I dodged that bullet because this chick wanted me to get her pregnant for that similar reason and because I wouldn't go along with it, she almost got my ass sent to captain's mast for fraternizing.

FETCHER. · 05-31-2011, 05:17 PM

And why would someone want to intentionally get pregnant in the navy? I'm sure alot of us don't understand. Not having first hand experience and all. Spill please

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djchameleon · 05-31-2011, 05:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurora

And why would someone want to intentionally get pregnant in the navy? I'm sure alot of us don't understand. Not having first hand experience and all. Spill please

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so they can get stationed on a base and not have to go out on a ship to do a tour...usually when they find out there is a six month one coming up but sometimes they don't even want to do a three monther.

I'm not saying all women but there are some that have those intentions

Burning Down · 05-31-2011, 06:05 PM

Why bother enlisting then? I know there are other perks and stuff, but that just seems like such a cop out.

FETCHER. · 05-31-2011, 06:08 PM

It's a pretty thing, having a baby just so they don't need to go on the ships for long periods. What the **** do they expect when they join the NAVY?

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Burning Down The Music Guru. Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: Beyond the Wall Posts: 4,858	Why bother enlisting then? I know there are other perks and stuff, but that just seems like such a cop out.