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!!!
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