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Jay_Dee
Guest
Good day to everyone,
I have been following these forums for about 3 months now and have never posted until now. I am 23 and have finished college and now I manage a very successful night club, but i don‘t feel challenged. Not from the job because the job is great and challengeing but my desirer and passion is not being fulfilled. The reason why i have‘nt posted until now is because I have been trying to decide if the forces are for me. i have my testing in April and i am looking forward to it, but I still can‘t figure if the forces are for me. I love the idealisms that make the forces the forces and I have wanted to be part of this family since I was a child, the sense of belonging, the love to make a difference, the ambition to acheive greatness as a team and as a person.
But on the other hand I am concered with things like the lack of respect from our own people(friends and co-workers who say things like why would you want to join the military) and goverment(no political backbone or concern for its most essential department, through cuts and token funding just to please our allies), equipment (although it seems to make us very resourceful), and concern for my future when or if i ever leave the military (civil skills that i would have, cause i want to join the infantry, full service).
I spend everyday at work, at home, out socializing thinking about this and saying one minute yes and the next no. What I am doing is running around in circles and now i am asking for advice from people on this fourm and people that i know that serve and have served and I have and am asking questions like "what was it that made you join" and "how do you handle with these negitive aspects that i have mentioned".
So I am asking the people on this fourm what made you join and why, and how did you deal with the negitive comments and aspects, did they play a part in your enlistment in the forces. I need some clearafication to help me cause I want it but i keep questioning certain aspects that really concern me.
James
I have been following these forums for about 3 months now and have never posted until now. I am 23 and have finished college and now I manage a very successful night club, but i don‘t feel challenged. Not from the job because the job is great and challengeing but my desirer and passion is not being fulfilled. The reason why i have‘nt posted until now is because I have been trying to decide if the forces are for me. i have my testing in April and i am looking forward to it, but I still can‘t figure if the forces are for me. I love the idealisms that make the forces the forces and I have wanted to be part of this family since I was a child, the sense of belonging, the love to make a difference, the ambition to acheive greatness as a team and as a person.
But on the other hand I am concered with things like the lack of respect from our own people(friends and co-workers who say things like why would you want to join the military) and goverment(no political backbone or concern for its most essential department, through cuts and token funding just to please our allies), equipment (although it seems to make us very resourceful), and concern for my future when or if i ever leave the military (civil skills that i would have, cause i want to join the infantry, full service).
I spend everyday at work, at home, out socializing thinking about this and saying one minute yes and the next no. What I am doing is running around in circles and now i am asking for advice from people on this fourm and people that i know that serve and have served and I have and am asking questions like "what was it that made you join" and "how do you handle with these negitive aspects that i have mentioned".
So I am asking the people on this fourm what made you join and why, and how did you deal with the negitive comments and aspects, did they play a part in your enlistment in the forces. I need some clearafication to help me cause I want it but i keep questioning certain aspects that really concern me.
James