RE: military overcompensation - Page 5

TheLionTamer · 12-24-2006, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

It is a very sweet deal, and I have been struggling with this decision the last several months. After being contacted about reenlisting, I actually talked to a recruiter about going back in as an officer. The only problem is the constant restationing and my wife wouldn't be able to mantain a steady job if we moved every few years.

why not keep your day job or a get a better one and then join the reserves. you get the best of both worlds.

Title Fight Productions · 12-24-2006, 02:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

, some flight time, boom you qualify. .

You really can't be this dumb!

**Lubaolong** · 12-24-2006, 02:20 AM

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Originally Posted by Orsyn

everything else has been covered. I sometimes want to defend Luba, but honestly I cannot see the need to in this thread. I am not sure why luba is so bitter.

I am not bitter at all. I know military members work hard and take risks, but I believe I was overpaid for the job I did, as are many others. This is just my opinion, which I know will draw criticism, but that's how I feel. I may have a little less responsibilities now, but I know I work much harder. My work:pay ratio is much different now.

**Lubaolong** · 12-24-2006, 02:23 AM

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Originally Posted by titlefight

You really can't be this dumb!

I should have phrased that different? Most people get the meaning.

Title Fight Productions · 12-24-2006, 02:26 AM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

I should have phrased that different? Most people get the meaning.

You mean most people realize how hard it is to become eligable to be such a pilot as you described and most people know how many vacancies (sp?) are available for the job you described?
Come on dude! I understand a little what you're overall point is but you are stretching a bit.

**Lubaolong** · 12-24-2006, 02:36 AM

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Originally Posted by titlefight

He already told us! His little sister and her fiance are kicking the shit out of him and his wife financialy and he can't handle it.

You don't know how right you are. I'll share something with you. I am seriously going crazy. Honestly. My family has been successful, my parents/grandparents successful business owners, my sister is a very successful physician, her fiance a successful financial advisor, and I feel like the ugly duckling. They are putting away serious money and I know I should be doing something more but I can't figure out what. I was accepted to a medical program, but an embarrassing fact is blood makes me sick. I don't know what I can enjoy that makes big bucks. I'm taking a chance now, dropping a career I hate, going back to school, hoping the wife and I can get picked up after graduation to work for a US company in Taiwan for big bucks, and still do a side business to catch up to my sister. My grandparents just recently died... my grandmother left me a several hour long tape telling me how smart I was but she was so worried about me and about my future success.. and telling me not to disappoint them.. etc. I'm going out of my mind trying to figure out how to make it. I seriously was hearing voices a few weeks ago and thought I was losing my mind.. but it turned out just to be anxiety. Well, fuck me. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm just going to press on and try my best to make it big. Whether it happens or not, I'm still going to be dead in 60 years, so what does it matter. My children might just blow it all anyway, right? Ugh.

Title Fight Productions · 12-24-2006, 02:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

You don't know how right you are. I'll share something with you. I am seriously going crazy. Honestly. My family has been successful, my parents/grandparents successful business owners, my sister is a very successful physician, her fiance a successful financial advisor, and I feel like the ugly duckling. They are putting away serious money and I know I should be doing something more but I can't figure out what. I was accepted to a medical program, but an embarrassing fact is blood makes me sick. I don't know what I can enjoy that makes big bucks. I'm taking a chance now, dropping a career I hate, going back to school, hoping the wife and I can get picked up after graduation to work for a US company in Taiwan for big bucks, and still do a side business to catch up to my sister. My grandparents just recently died... my grandmother left me a several hour long tape telling me how smart I was but she was so worried about me and about my future success.. and telling me not to disappoint them.. etc. I'm going out of my mind trying to figure out how to make it. I seriously was hearing voices a few weeks ago and thought I was losing my mind.. but it turned out just to be anxiety. Well, fuck me. I don't know what I'm going to do. I'm just going to press on and try my best to make it big. Whether it happens or not, I'm still going to be dead in 60 years, so what does it matter. My children might just blow it all anyway, right? Ugh.

LOL, you have three options.

#1 Keep trying to keep up with the family pressure and maybe you make it maybe you don't but you will be miserable trying.

#2. Go back in the military and say serving you're country is a far noble'r than any amount of money making

#3. Get some mental help and understand that if you are comfortable and well off there is alot more to worry about.

Do you want you're kids to have the same pressure to over succeed that you have. Do you want them to have the same stress as you have? If not you need a change.

Title Fight Productions · 12-24-2006, 02:48 AM

Speaking of overcompensation....My girlfriend only has a Highschool education and she brings in $170,000 a year. WTF?

Gregster · 12-24-2006, 02:49 AM

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Originally Posted by Lubaolong

I see the military almost as a last resort job for most people. They can't cut it in college, but don't want to do manual labor. That is my opinion. You are free to disagree all you want.

Well, I'm feeling free: you're an utter imbecile.

I enlisted in the Marines and served 4 years as a tanker; I have a Masters' Degree.

My father enlisted in he Army, served 31 years, got out as a Lieutenant Colonel. He has two Masters' Dgerees and runs his own business.

M brother is a career Marine, graduated from the US Naval Academy, a school you probably couldn't get into much less graduate from.

My cousin Pete joined the Army Reserves. Later went to West Point. He's a career soldier, standing by to get his silver oakleafs, and just got his PhD.

You, on the other hand, are a retard whose smug, asshat-ish attitude about the military being some refuse heap for stupid people who "can't cut it" either in college or in the "real world," combined with your stupidly naive comments about people being able to choose any MOS they want to avoid combat when anyone who's served knows you can ask for all the jobs you want, you will get sent to the job you a) are qualified for and/or b) are most needed by the service leads me to believe you never spent a day in uniform and are bullshitting abot your military cred to justify your bullshitting about what a great get-rich-quick scheme the military is.

**Lubaolong** · 12-24-2006, 02:58 AM

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Originally Posted by titlefight

#3. Get some mental help and understand that if you are comfortable and well off there is alot more to worry about.

Do you want you're kids to have the same pressure to over succeed that you have. Do you want them to have the same stress as you have? If not you need a change.

I already have. After my grandmother died and I started freaking out I talked with some professionals, got some medication.. and I'm doing better now. I'm still very stressed and worried about my future.

These things are easy for you to say because you aren't living here in my life. The closest people in my life (my grandparents) are gone. I'm not that close with my parents. I feel like I have no one except my wife. I don't want to disappoint them and I want my family to have everything I can give to them. After my grandparents died, we spent a week or so staying at my sisters house. Going from her lifestyle back to mine is horrible. My sister just moved, built a $1 million dollar office building, and a $800k house. And in her area, that's a HUGE house. It's almost 10k sq ft. She has her own practice, thousands of patients, her and her fiance work a normal 9-5 job, sometimes she works a little later.. and they make a shit load of money. They blow more money a year on useless crap that I can make. I'm busting my tail doing jobs I hate with all my being, working 60+ hours a week sometimes, trying to make $200k. Spending a week living with her, doing the things they do, shopping like they shop.. then coming back to my lifestyle.. it's really hard. I don't have any money to blow. I'm finished working for right now and I'm trying my best to save to buy a semi decent house that's not falling apart when we move and not go into debt while we take 3 years off to go to school. I don't know if we'll ever get where I want to be. Maybe I'm destined for mediocracy.