i am so psyched right now

[Stefka]

you see i dont want to be 40 with a regular job. im 32 and the reason im behind is because i chose to go into the military at 17 because i grew up on the streets of new york and if i didnt join id still be on the streets in new york but instead of hanging out there id be living on the streets. when i was in the military they had tuition assistance you could use along with your GI Bill but i put all my efforts in my job. i saw so many guys try to go to school while in and got screwed. either they sacrificed their evaluations or they said to hell with school. many guys signed up for school, started going then the navy changed their working hours and they had to drop out of class. or they fought to stay in class and not change shifts but then their evaluations got hurt and if you never served your evaluations is all you have in the navy. without good ones you will never advance to the next rank. its a serious catch 22.

my career was #2 to me while i was in, my #1 was my family. this also hurt my evaluations because i never put the navy first and they knew it. if you were not 110% Navy while your in then you are a loser in their eyes. but then again thats why the divorce rate is so high in the military. many of my buddies got divorced because they chose the navy over family.

if you dont repsect the men in service because of what they do then thats fine. but at leased respect them for doing it with a family because the navy wife is seriously the hardest job in the navy. picture your husband leaving for 6 months and longer at a time and your stuck home with the kids, bills, lawn, dishes, school teachers problems, sickness, car trouble, injury, cook dinner, breakfast and lunch dayin and day out, disipline the children...... imagine doing all this and more BY YOURSELF.... when i left for 6 months deployments i didnt have to worry about anything besides work. my wife had to worry about everything else.

You did good.
You got off the streets of NY.
You kept your family together.
You are getting an education.
You are doing awesome - and you're getting paid.
You should be proud.

 

[avidinternet]

Hey, I have an idea...
Will you guys just call me Dr. Stefka from now on?
Then I can just skip the whole PhD thing and live out my fantasies on EF.
Thanks in advance.

Sure Dr. Stefka...

But I think that the Dr /Lawyer /Scientist things are actually a few of the only real reasons to go to school.

Change your user name to Dr. Stefka

 

[Sub-Zero]

You did good.
You got off the streets of NY.
You kept your family together.
You are getting an education.
You are doing awesome - and you're getting paid.
You should be proud.

You are a good asskisser.



for real tho, awsome work bigman.

 

[Stefka]

Sure Dr. Stefka...

But I think that the Dr /Lawyer /Scientist things are actually a few of the only real reasons to go to school.

Change your user name to Dr. Stefka

That is a wonderful idea...brb

 

[samoth]

No prob, school is great for the peeps that love it.

But if you start making good bank earlier on in your life and keep on going you will always beat the late starter.

Compound interest.

hth

Because in today's world, you don't make bank unless you have a good education. And I mean real bank, like BIGLAW or CEO salary. Most uneducated plebes don't even know how to calculate compound interest, hth.

 

[samoth]

But I think that the Dr /Lawyer /Scientist things are actually a few of the only real reasons to go to school.

Too bad only two of those pay well.

 

[Stefka]

Because in today's world, you don't make bank unless you have a good education. And I mean real bank, like BIGLAW or CEO salary. Most uneducated plebes don't even know how to calculate compound interest, hth.

But most science PhDs never make more than $70k/year

 

[jerkbox]

Because in today's world, you don't make bank unless you have a good education. And I mean real bank, like BIGLAW or CEO salary. Most uneducated plebes don't even know how to calculate compound interest, hth.

nonsense....money can be made in many ways

 

[bigmann245]

You did good.
You got off the streets of NY.
You kept your family together.
You are getting an education.
You are doing awesome - and you're getting paid.
You should be proud.

I just feel I'm so far behind its not funny. My in-laws actually laughed when I told them I’m going to start going to school. They swore to my wife it was for the girls and parties but believe me, I’ve been going for 2 years now and I have not socialized with 1 girl or went to one party since I started. If I did get to go to a party id bring my wife with me. Trust me I have been asked to many parties while here but most of these parties are teeny bopper parties with high school kids there too because they are all around 18. I’m past the partying thing. But I feel like I am seriously behind. I see other people 10 years younger than me making a lot of money. Most of them have degrees so I know my time will come but it still sucks seeing other people younger than I way ahead. I wish I could get school done quicker. My goal is to become a doctor which is why I chose sports medicine. The VA won’t pay for more than 4 years of school and the degree I get has to be a solid degree and not something I have to go to 4 more years of school to use. This way I can be a sports trainer or physical therapist while I continue school and become a doctor. Seriously I want to be specialist, maybe a chiropractor or orthopedic surgeon. But I have to take small steps because I do have a family to look after and I have to work full time while in school.

 

[samoth]

nonsense....money can be made in many ways

Take the average income from HS graduates, BS graduates, MS, PhD, JD, MD, etc. and it's pretty obvious.

Money can be made playing the lottery, but that doesn't mean that it's the credited choice for doing so.

I'm talking about making lots of money, as in lawyers, doctors, and upper-level business -- far beyond what's needed for a comfortable living.