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2013-08-26 08:35 8427303 Anonymous (1311969642989.png 445x431 11kB)
Why did you go to the military, /r9k/? Too stupid to make it into a good college? Too afraid to take control of your own life once you became an adult? Do you like being a follower? Do you like supporting the country everybody hates due to their military presence all over the world? Do you like making <30k a year? Yeah the military makes you work hard, but it doesn't make you think. Sure you can run for like 6 miles or something, but do you even remember calculus? Don't join the military, it's probably one of the stupidest things you can do. I finished college 2 years ago with no contacts in my fiend and am currently making 66k annual. No, it's not great, but it's promising. I'm just slightly above average for income in my field after 2 years.

4 min later 8427351 Anonymous
>>8427303 i know how you feel, all my friends think theyre going to be top class engineers as soon as they sign up when they would be lucky to make front line infantry because theyre fucking idiots

6 min later 8427390 Anonymous
>>8427303 what did you study? blox

10 min later 8427441 Anonymous (blackflag.png 170x170 6kB)
>>8427303 >be me >be finishing high school (im 18 faggots) >be fucking huge >you should join the army anon they will pay for college >dad preaches that shit to me nonstop, his dad was in korea so i dont blame him >im an anarchist, joining the military goes against everything i believe in >i have 600k stashed away for whatever school i want >keep your college money and use it to kill more innocent people

10 min later 8427442 Anonymous
>>8427351 I actually went to school for chemical and bio-medical engineering (OP here) I took AP calc 2 and AP physics in HS, college introduced me to experimental physics and linear geometry. If they go into ROTC they have a chance, but my buddy who was an ace in ROTC is only making 37k annual now. He's training to be a manager of a fast food restaurant because they only teach you things pertinent to military-related informatics and he forgot almost everything from HS and didn't even pursue getting an education. Honestly, he was smarter than I am but chose a dumbass path.

12 min later 8427471 Anonymous
>>8427441 Why would I want to waste 4 years of my life then another 4 in college when I could just go to college for 4 years and make more money than college costs in the next 4 years? >amerilogic

14 min later 8427520 Anonymous
>>8427471 wait what? notsurewhatumeanblox

21 min later 8427593 Anonymous
>>8427520 instead of going to the military to pay for school, just go to school for a STEM major and get good grades (just fuckin do it you won't regret it). Starting income is almost guaranteed 45k+ annual. Pay back debt in <4 years. I only had 31k in student debt, I was done paying off college after 1 year of work and i bought my first car and pet ( a group of 10 shrimp ).

27 min later 8427656 Vietnam
The only two people I've ever meet from USA who joined the military had a deathwish and heavy mental issues And that's basically it. They wanted to die without it being their fault. Of course, after the first ship, it only got worse on the mental part.

30 min later 8427694 Anonymous
>>8427303 >66k annual >not great Fuck you, faggot. That is so much more than you actually fucking need that it is not even funny.

34 min later 8427743 Anonymous
bumping with more people-are-retarded stories >go to school in a hick town >military recruiters around all the time >are you tough enough? >they put a chin up bar in the lunch room >everyone lines up >we'll pay for you education all you have to do is everything we want >i ask them about the "benefits" with a skeptical mind knowing that the homelessness rate is double for vets >they dodge around the question but they say if you dont achieve some significant rank youre on your own

55 min later 8428003 Anonymous
>>8427694 Just wait until I come up with the cure for cancer bitch. That's literally what I'm researching. Does it make sense to pay me ONLY 66k? Fuck you you immature cunt, and yes I do want fries with that.

58 min later 8428039 Anonymous
>>8427694 wow you got fucking served. >>8428003 STEMBROREP

1 hours later 8428072 Anonymous
>>8427441 >going to school >anarchist pick one

1 hours later 8428084 Anonymous
>>8428003 >Cure for cancer Have fun not profiting off of it, since big pharmaceutics will just buy it off of you. Meanwhile, I'll be making the real money in the arms industry. Who cares about the ethics? As long as there's two people with differing opinions in the world, I'll make money.

1 hours later 8428116 Anonymous (noam.jpg 500x407 112kB)
>>8428072 i hate school with a passion but i want to be a nurse and help people and i actually knew another anarchist that was in AP and all that shit pic related this fucker works at MIT

1 hours later 8428124 Anonymous
>>8428084 I'm ALREADY MAKING 66K annual, made 52 last year. As long as my salary keeps increasing, I'm making money dumbfuck. ALSO: >have fun not profiting >pharmaceutics will BUY it off you Are you this stupid? Like I'm laughing. Is this what community college does to people?

1 hours later 8428181 Anonymous
>>8428084 do you think OP is preforming experiments in his basement or something? Researchers get paid BANK to figure shit out, shit nobody has found out yet. Do you really think they make minimal money? Do you have a grasp on reality?

1 hours later 8428183 Anonymous (1318125976999.png 413x356 245kB)
>I'm in the US Navy >I make 80K a year plus full benefits for me and my family >my job is actually awesome >go here and listen to a guy with zero life experience tell me about how my life experience sucks >mfw

1 hours later 8428208 Anonymous
>>8428183 congrats on taking advantage of the broken system, American. Did your dad get you that position?

1 hours later 8428230 Anonymous
>>8428208 No. No one in my family is in the military other than me.

1 hours later 8428235 Apostle
>>8428183 >In the navy >Job is awesome Pick one faggot. The navy sucks mondo ballsack, literally. You have to be on a fucking boat with dudes for Christ knows how long with the closest fuckable female being miles and miles of sea away. And 80k? The fact that you find pride in that dismal salary is humorous. You should have stayed in school son. I work in fucking sales and I net around 120k. Fuck you faggot.

1 hours later 8428274 Anonymous (screen_shot.jpg 1117x734 500kB)
>>8428235 >I make 80k, which will go up every few years as I get promoted >A sales job. huh, sounds fun. Way better than what I do, pic related

1 hours later 8428287 Anonymous
>>8428274 >implying any country that still has F-18s has enough of them to ever aim for being a fighter pilot

1 hours later 8428311 Anonymous
>>8428287 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing _F/A-18E/F_Super_Hornet >superhornets >515 F/A-18E/Fs and 114 EA-18Gs in the USA alone

1 hours later 8428333 Anonymous
>>8428116 >anarchist with 600k >not an edgy, rebellious and spoiled kid with rich parents

1 hours later 8428342 Anonymous
>>8428208 >>8428235 >>8428287 Dude you should just quit, you're getting told as hell

1 hours later 8428346 Anonymous
>>8428311 i thought they replaced them all already in any case, every other country with any has like two of them

1 hours later 8428362 Anonymous
>>8428333 Yeah, you sort of killed that with that figure, what the fuck.

1 hours later 8428366 Anonymous
>>8428333 >>not an edgy, rebellious and spoiled kid with rich parents the money is from a lawsuit, from when i was in a horrific accident as a baby, my parents cant touch a penny of it >parents middle class as fuck >kinda dicks to me but i might pay off their massive debt just to be nice

1 hours later 8428380 Anonymous
I'm currently considering the Navy. I talked to an older friend who got out a few years ago. He gets paid $1500 to go to school WHILE they pay for his school at a top university for 3 years. He has a job simply because he gets bored. Afterwards he'll still have a shitty job cuz he's in film school but hey that's his choice. It doesn't sound too bad. 4 years of experiences, life-long friends, travel, and when you get out you're disciplined and not a whiny faggot on /r9k/ anymore.

1 hours later 8428398 Anonymous
>>8428346 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McDonn ell_Douglas_F/A-18_Hornet Superhornets are replacing hornets

1 hours later 8428407 Anonymous
>>8427442 I've heard soldiers lose some of their cognitive thinking abilities because of the guidelines and life style that's drilled into them. US military cannot into shaping decent human beings.

1 hours later 8428408 Anonymous
>>8427303 >Why did you go to the military, /r9k/? Because I wanted to. >Too stupid to make it into a good college? No, I got quite a few scholarships to big universities. >Too afraid to take control of your own life once you became an adult? I have perfect control over my life. >Do you like being a follower? That would imply I follow people. Taking orders from people higher up on the chain than you and following is not the same thing at all. It's no different than a boss at any other job telling you to get the reports done. That also implies that I'm an E1, which I'm not. >Do you like supporting the country everybody hates due to their military presence all over the world? Yes. While I agree we need to stop meddling into other people's affairs and that our country isn't perfect, it doesn't mean I wont support it. It's called Patriotism. >Do you like making <30k a year? Yeah, especially when I don't have to pay a single bill, because the Military pays for all of it. >Yeah the military makes you work hard, but it doesn't make you think. Sure you can run for like 6 miles or something, but do you even remember calculus? I was never good at math in the first place. I do however remember a lot of stuff from High School, it isn't that hard to forget things. Your brain can hold up to six lifetimes worth of memory.

1 hours later 8428428 Anonymous
>>8428003 >implying there hasn't been multiple cures already created that have been 'discontinued' because there's more profit in leeching off the money that comes with patients undergoing chemo therapy

1 hours later 8428454 Anonymous
Dont worry mammy im gun grou up big n strogn adn be in the army like a superhero! I love grand teft awto and cock of dooty. Mom I just found the cure for cancer. This is going to change the world forever and the research I did will be printed in textbooks. I'm with OP on this one. >>8428380 Thats shit man I'm a COMPSCI major and I do programming form my dorm averaging >$40/HR. >when you get out you're disciplined and not a whiny faggot on /r9k/ anymore I don't like being disciplined, I'm used to being rewarded for achievement, that's how life should be. You mean like prioritizing? I guess if you couldn't carry your own life like a proper human being than sure you can let some washed up, uneducated american tell you (along with thousands of other followers) what to do all day. >>8428428 That's what I am implying because I know more than you on the subject and those "cures" have adverse effects WORSE than cancer.

1 hours later 8428463 Anonymous
>>8428235 >80k dismal? that's at the level or above many college graduates >Fuck you faggot. ? not that guy but you're projecting

1 hours later 8428478 Anonymous
>>8428454 >Dont worry mammy im gun grou up big n strogn adn be in the army like a superhero! I love grand teft awto and cock of dooty. I hope you realize a lot of people in the military are not this stupid. Where do you people even get this stigma from?

1 hours later 8428489 Anonymous
>>8428478 >Where do you people even get this stigma from? knowing people in the military, and others who want to join

1 hours later 8428493 Apostle
>>8428478 The fact that a lot of the military is made up of the poor and the colored

1 hours later 8428507 Anonymous
>>8428489 >>8428493 That doesn't mean all of them type like complete moron about things that are completely retarded. Don't see me, typing or acting like that, do you?

1 hours later 8428513 Anonymous
>>8428003 >Does it make sense to pay me ONLY 66k? Yes. Working folks make less than one third of your salary. You are very likely a lackey for someone more qualified at this point. >>8428124 >As long as my salary keeps increasing... You are a salaried employee. Until you own productive property, you can lose everything as easily as the common laborer can. Hopefully, you had the foresight not to sign any agreements giving your employer the exclusive rights to any research that you do while employed. Read your contract very carefully. If you did, hand in your resignation at once. If you ever do discover anything useful, you will want to apply for a patent without delay, then form a corporation to exploit it. You'll need an investor, but be sure to retain majority ownership of the enterprise. >>8428208 It is extremely easy to become an officer if you decide to start aiming for the position while you are still in high school. Otherwise, it is difficult. >>8428235 >You have to be on a fucking boat with dudes... Have you ever actually served? Jesus Christ, the number of whores those damned squids get to fuck... >>8428478 >Where do you people even get this stigma from? Michael Moore or his like, I'd wager. Progressives don't seem to have a clue why folks ACTUALLY serve, probably because the rich suburban cunts who whelped them paid for their educations.

1 hours later 8428516 Anonymous
the real trick is become an officer in the merchant marines. I make150k a year four years out of collage and only work six months a year. > sailorfag for life

1 hours later 8428688 Anonymous
>anti-military faggot getting told left and right that his anti-military views are wrong Love it.

2 hours later 8428726 Anonymous
>>8428688 >>anti-military faggot getting told left and right that his anti-military views are wrong >implying its only one of us >implying we're wrong for not wanting to kill innocent people regardless of how much we're paid

2 hours later 8428752 Anonymous
>>8427303 >Why did you go to the military, /r9k/? My dream. >Too stupid to make it into a good college? Officer. Need a 4 year degree to comission anwayay. >Too afraid to take control of your own life once you became an adult? What? >Do you like being a follower? Yes, but as an officer it is required of me to lead as well. >Do you like supporting the country everybody hates due to their military presence all over the world? I enjoy supporting my country, yes. >Do you like making <30k a year? I do live quite frugally.

2 hours later 8428762 Anonymous
>>8428726 >implying all military jobs involve killing anyone >he thinks everyone who kills people in the military is killing innocents >he thinks the killing of innocents has nothing to do with the fact that the Jihadists in the Middle East will hide amongst innocents and use them as bait No, you're right, fuck murica fer ruinin ther freedums.

2 hours later 8428787 Anonymous
>>8427441 >600k for school >600,000 What the fuck man? With 600k you could live comfortably for the rest of your life if you invest it right.

2 hours later 8428827 Anonymous
>>8427441 >600k >anarchist okay dude stop trying so hard.

2 hours later 8429155 Anonymous (images-1117890765.jpg 197x131 3kB)
>see this thread >had posted in earlier thread about training and such >these tits are acting like being a soldier is a durr hurr job >they'll never repell out of a helicopter >they'll never drive military vehicles like a mad man >they'll never feel the rock of a Mod Deuce or the chatter of a M240B or C >they'll never know the sensation of being dropped in the woods and being told "good luck" >firing a extinguisher for lulz on a monday morning Oh, and once I medically retire, you college faggots will be paying for my retirement and benefits while i work in my dream job > your fucking faces when

2 hours later 8429217 Anonymous
I get calls constantly from the military wanting me to join. Haven't returned their calls. My friends who joined the military who were smart but poor as shit ended up with shitty jobs because they thought those jobs would be more interesting. Now if war breaks out they're the first ones to be sent out. Idiots were qualified for every job yet picked infantry. If I did military I'd probably go Navy. But I'm pushing for Community College instead.

2 hours later 8429420 Anonymous
>>8429155 b-b-b-but muh killing innocents

3 hours later 8429555 Anonymous
>>8429217 why in the holy corpse god did they choose 11x series?

3 hours later 8429763 Anonymous (999327_10151436684135566_1500388042_n.jpg 764x480 61kB)
>Jelly be Jelly be jelly jelly jelly be

3 hours later 8430023 Anonymous
>>8428366 How horrific are we talking here?

5 hours later 8431019 Apostle
>>8428516 And how does one do such a thing

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