I'm Sailing Away

Sep 22, 2010 10:23

The nuke age waiver that I've been messing with never came back. Everyone is on vacation or otherwise occupied. Didn't get a yes or no and now it's so close to my other leave date that it doesn't matter. The paperwork to get me switched would take like another month, so I'm leaving on October 4th as a sonar tech, which I found out two weeks ago, EVEN THOUGH I had been asking my recruiter if I should be getting ready just in case. He kept saying "Naw, bro. It's gonna come through. Don't worry about it." That is, until the last zone meeting where he told me that I'd be kicked out if I'm not ready by the 4th. Wish I would've known that before I dropped another grand on fixing the car... Sonar tech isn't a bad job and it's still in the advanced electronics and computer field, but it's definitely not the top end thing like nuclear and does not offer the same opportunities outside of the Navy. I'll probably stick with it anyway. With nuke, I would have no free time at all during school, which lasts for two years. My only ship options are a carrier or a sub, both of which I've heard are not good to be on. Something like 70% of people in nuke school fail or drop out. If that happens, you get whatever job the Navy needs, regardless of your ability. You may have qualified for nuke, but they needed a cook, so that's what you're going to be. Sonar tech gives me a lot more freedom during school, which is also shorter. I can be on any ship in the fleet. They get promoted a lot faster, as there's less competition. Basically, it sounds more fun and I'll still get to see the world. I'm probably going to end up going for officer anyway, so my starting job doesn't matter so much. However, if I do not go officer and end up wanting out after my six years, there's no sonar tech related job that I think I'd want. Hopefully, my college and military service would be enough to get me in somewhere.

I am EXTREMELY stressed out. I've never been so stressed. It's not the leaving part, it's that it was jumped on me and now I'm racing to get everything in order and I have absolutely no time for anything fun AND shit keeps going wrong, like getting a speeding ticket. I took care of the ticket and it's off my record, but there went another $191. There's several other things that I'm not putting on here, because I don't want any record of them anywhere. I'm going to be flat broke when I go in and I have no money to do anything fun before that, becaues I spent it all on the car, which I would not have done if I'd known I was leaving so soon. I will not get to hang with all my friends. There will be no party for me. Six Flags is only open on the weekends and I won't be in town for most of that and will be busy at the times that I am around. Not that it's worth going on the weekends anyway. I do actually have free time during the week, but nobody else does. I'm stuck at home playing EverQuest, which is not fun. It's merely something I do when I have nothing better to do and that subscription runs out today. I don't know if it's worth the $15 to renew it for a month when I'll only be able to use it for a week and a half and I'm very low on money.

This last Kinetics is going terrible. Everything is wrong. I wish I would've known that I was leaving this soon, so I could've had more time to prepare. If I wasn't so stressed, I could do it just fine. I really wanted to knock out a final Best of Vocals and Parasympathetic, but this set is going so bad that I think it'd just stress me out even more to do them.

So, basically, my last two weeks of freedom are complete shit and then I go to boot camp and it's all because my recruiter is a dumb ass. Not a liar, but a dumb ass. As I've said so many times in the last couple months, virtually all of my problems are caused by other people being stupid/lazy/worthless.

The good things that will happen before I leave in order of when they'll happen:
1. Movie with Dad and Mindy
2. Dinner with Mom and Grandpa
3. Rank up in ACWA
4. Baptism

Hope I don't tear someone's head off before I go.
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