Well I haven't heard back from the recruiter since I met with him on the 23rd so i'm a bit paranoid, only because its kinda what happened with the army recruiter, whom i will call on monday just in case. I'm going to email the NG recruiter monday just to see if the suitability thing will be happening or maybe get me in to schedule the asvab, I hate sitting around not knowing if i should continue to pursue and start looking for something else. but fingers are still crossed.
So the topic today will be mainly how I will cope with not having any of my norms at basic; i'll probably write about this again closer to the day i'm suppose to ship out as well. To think, 8 weeks of no internet, cell phone, news, girls, internet porn, sex, texting, my bed, my security fort of pillows that surround me as I sleep. Everyday my cellphone is within arms reach for 90% of my day like it has been for nearly the past 10 years. same with the internet, food I want.
my daily schedule is wake up around noon, play league of legends, apply to 200 jobs, play league, go to bed. on fridays and saturdays i mix it up by bartending. I will go from on the computer for at least 5 hours a day to 0 for 8 weeks. that will be a huge culture shock. I wonder If i will get ghost vibrations when I'm there.
I'm tring to look at as a summer camp. Hopefully everything works out and I can ship off in March.
Sunday, December 29, 2013
Tuesday, December 24, 2013
Meet the recruit pt 1 and 2
Because I started this after my first two initial meetings with my recruiter, I thought I'd just make the second post about my impressions and such. I should note this my experience with the National Guard, not any other branches. I did meet with the Army recruiter, but after my initial meeting, they never called me back and after a few attempts of getting back a hold of them, (and then the officer recruiter) I finally got through with them like 2 months after and they said they were trying to get a hold of me for the part few months. ::shrugs:: Dunno what that means in recruiter talk but I'm not interested in sitting around waiting for stuff to happen, specially with my student loan debt and other mounting things.
I first contacted the recruiter through the website HERE and was promptly emailed or called the next morning, I can't really remember. I meet with the recruiter fairly quickly and we went over some of my concerns such as my unauthorized use charge when I was 18 at the snowboarding mountain I worked t and my physical control I received 2 years prior. One is sealed and hopefully the PC will be in the next year, but none of that matters with these guys since they do an FBI check. I had to write out a list of all the places I lived or worked in the last 10 years. The weird part, I think he was kinda of iffy on if I'd actually qualify or was testing if I actually wanted to join, is that he gave me background check forms to take to the different city police stations and counties that I lived in. Because I graduated from college 2 years ago, I had to go to about 8 different stations which I completed that day. 5 or so days later, 12/23/2013 I returned to the station with all my paperwork, and even checking the 400,000 life insurance policy for 16 dollars a month so in case something does happen, I left it to my mother so someone responsible will be able to give it to my daughter. I had to file a release for a suitability review and he said he'd email that day or the next day (today the 24th)) to let me know. But because of the holiday, I'm not to worried until the 27th comes around, because I'd prefer to hopefully go to basic around March or April.
Currently I'm just trying to get in shape and get my push-up and sit-up count up as much as I can but its hard in the cold. I am probably around 20 push-ups and maybe 40 or 50 sit-ups which for being as out of shape I am, that's pretty amazing. I joined a Title Boxing to help with that.
Well my fingers are being crossed, because this would help me soooooo greatly. I could actually go to Law School. go back or computer programming, or get a full-time position there within the military; hell I may even meet a girl in there.
My next update will probably be a short one, it'll be after I hear back from him which could either end the blog here which then I will turn it into a career searching blog or something like that. I also might have the response of my daughter when I tell her. That won't be fun and will probably make me sad since she tells me so much she wants to move down with me.
I first contacted the recruiter through the website HERE and was promptly emailed or called the next morning, I can't really remember. I meet with the recruiter fairly quickly and we went over some of my concerns such as my unauthorized use charge when I was 18 at the snowboarding mountain I worked t and my physical control I received 2 years prior. One is sealed and hopefully the PC will be in the next year, but none of that matters with these guys since they do an FBI check. I had to write out a list of all the places I lived or worked in the last 10 years. The weird part, I think he was kinda of iffy on if I'd actually qualify or was testing if I actually wanted to join, is that he gave me background check forms to take to the different city police stations and counties that I lived in. Because I graduated from college 2 years ago, I had to go to about 8 different stations which I completed that day. 5 or so days later, 12/23/2013 I returned to the station with all my paperwork, and even checking the 400,000 life insurance policy for 16 dollars a month so in case something does happen, I left it to my mother so someone responsible will be able to give it to my daughter. I had to file a release for a suitability review and he said he'd email that day or the next day (today the 24th)) to let me know. But because of the holiday, I'm not to worried until the 27th comes around, because I'd prefer to hopefully go to basic around March or April.
Currently I'm just trying to get in shape and get my push-up and sit-up count up as much as I can but its hard in the cold. I am probably around 20 push-ups and maybe 40 or 50 sit-ups which for being as out of shape I am, that's pretty amazing. I joined a Title Boxing to help with that.
Well my fingers are being crossed, because this would help me soooooo greatly. I could actually go to Law School. go back or computer programming, or get a full-time position there within the military; hell I may even meet a girl in there.
My next update will probably be a short one, it'll be after I hear back from him which could either end the blog here which then I will turn it into a career searching blog or something like that. I also might have the response of my daughter when I tell her. That won't be fun and will probably make me sad since she tells me so much she wants to move down with me.
1st post, initial thoughts
This is my opening blog, hopefully sometime in the future i'll get all fancy and make this a half blog half vlog (are people still using this term?). So a little background is probably in order; I am 27, I graduated from the University of Cincinnati in 2011 (2 years ago) with a degree in Communications and the oh so prestige certification in Public Relations that only 11 other schools offered at the time in which you needed a 3.3 GPA in those classes to obtain. On a side note, There is no certification number on it, so I can't actually claim I have it on a lot of online applications these days because they all require a number.
So enough with the passive aggressive dribble and how ive came to the decision to the Ohio National Guard. Roughly 3 years ago, the mother of our child and I moved into an apartment; 3 months after that I had the apartment and 1200$ rent to myself which I used my student loans for and about 8 months after that I graduate college and she moves 4 hours north. blah blah blah fathers have no rights if you were not married in Ohio blah blah blah. So since then I've been unable to find full-time employment and the 50k of student loan debt mounting and unable to find a real career, specially in my late 20's I had to do something that could potentially help my life for the better. The one reservation I have joining is that my 4 year old daughter told me she doesn't want me to join because she might not get to see me as much as she does. I like to think I'man emotionless robot,and 99% of the time I am, except when it comes to her. That just pulls at my heart strings. Though this troubles me greatly, she starts school in 9 months which means I would get to see her less than I already do since I am unable to move up there (look up shitties town in ohio and you will understand why or just look at most of the cities on this list HERE;minerva, canton, youngstown, alliance compared to mason and blanchester) and we won't even get me started on the education annual income levels. So because the tuition repayment and coming in as an E4 and maybe even OCS and only doing the 2 weeks a year BS unless I get deployed, I can give up 12 weeks + Basic training of my life to make things better for my daughter and I.
I'm not to worried about how it will be like or the 8 weeks i'll be away from her (it sucks but i get it), I'm more worried, well not worried, bother by a few things other people wouldn't even care about. These include people laying in my bed and using my covers pillows, watching my tv and potentially touching its screen, touching my laptop, my movies, etc etc. now that I think about it, I may get a storage locker. Probably the thing that will bother me the most will be the lack of me watching television shows. this isn't just the network shows, but the average 2-3 episodes of anime I watch a night, my weekly anime series specially with rumors of fairy tail coming back on the air this year. Yes I know it will be all waiting on my laptop when I get home (actually screw this thing, I will by a new and better one). Another thing is I will miss the people I play league of legends with almost on a nightly schedule. Though I don't like hanging out with people to much, I do playing and being able to talk to them, via vent.
But i'm willing to put that on pause. I can see everything will be 1000x better afterwards. I will be able to go to Law School that I was accepted to in 2012 but couldn't go because of an old hospital bill, I would be able to go back to school for computer programming like I wanted to after I couldn't go to law school but couldn't because of previous student loans. But most importantly, I have the chance of actually finding a job.
One of topics I want to think about is how i'll have to wear glasses. How stupid, I can put my contacts in, in 5 seconds. Unless I get lasik, if i'm allowed, I'll have to mess with the stupid glasses in all the challenges, shooting, everything, and that is something I don't want getting in my way.
NEXT UP: My Process so far!!!
So enough with the passive aggressive dribble and how ive came to the decision to the Ohio National Guard. Roughly 3 years ago, the mother of our child and I moved into an apartment; 3 months after that I had the apartment and 1200$ rent to myself which I used my student loans for and about 8 months after that I graduate college and she moves 4 hours north. blah blah blah fathers have no rights if you were not married in Ohio blah blah blah. So since then I've been unable to find full-time employment and the 50k of student loan debt mounting and unable to find a real career, specially in my late 20's I had to do something that could potentially help my life for the better. The one reservation I have joining is that my 4 year old daughter told me she doesn't want me to join because she might not get to see me as much as she does. I like to think I'man emotionless robot,and 99% of the time I am, except when it comes to her. That just pulls at my heart strings. Though this troubles me greatly, she starts school in 9 months which means I would get to see her less than I already do since I am unable to move up there (look up shitties town in ohio and you will understand why or just look at most of the cities on this list HERE;minerva, canton, youngstown, alliance compared to mason and blanchester) and we won't even get me started on the education annual income levels. So because the tuition repayment and coming in as an E4 and maybe even OCS and only doing the 2 weeks a year BS unless I get deployed, I can give up 12 weeks + Basic training of my life to make things better for my daughter and I.
I'm not to worried about how it will be like or the 8 weeks i'll be away from her (it sucks but i get it), I'm more worried, well not worried, bother by a few things other people wouldn't even care about. These include people laying in my bed and using my covers pillows, watching my tv and potentially touching its screen, touching my laptop, my movies, etc etc. now that I think about it, I may get a storage locker. Probably the thing that will bother me the most will be the lack of me watching television shows. this isn't just the network shows, but the average 2-3 episodes of anime I watch a night, my weekly anime series specially with rumors of fairy tail coming back on the air this year. Yes I know it will be all waiting on my laptop when I get home (actually screw this thing, I will by a new and better one). Another thing is I will miss the people I play league of legends with almost on a nightly schedule. Though I don't like hanging out with people to much, I do playing and being able to talk to them, via vent.
But i'm willing to put that on pause. I can see everything will be 1000x better afterwards. I will be able to go to Law School that I was accepted to in 2012 but couldn't go because of an old hospital bill, I would be able to go back to school for computer programming like I wanted to after I couldn't go to law school but couldn't because of previous student loans. But most importantly, I have the chance of actually finding a job.
One of topics I want to think about is how i'll have to wear glasses. How stupid, I can put my contacts in, in 5 seconds. Unless I get lasik, if i'm allowed, I'll have to mess with the stupid glasses in all the challenges, shooting, everything, and that is something I don't want getting in my way.
NEXT UP: My Process so far!!!
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