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Navy Pilot vs. Career in Business
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That gem never gets old.
Grizwald90
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Hey man, I left my job as an attorney for USN. If you need advice or have questions PM me. Also, take everything on this site with a grain of salt, there is plenty of great info and just as much garbage. Also, DO IT.
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This commercial got my attention back in the 70's. I knew I didn't want to grow old and wonder what it might have been like to have flown jets off a carrier.
You only get one shot to do this stuff. You can do other stuff after this. This stuff is fun, hard, rewarding, and the experience will go a long way in defining you.
As others have offered, PM me if you want to hear another perspective.
You only get one shot to do this stuff. You can do other stuff after this. This stuff is fun, hard, rewarding, and the experience will go a long way in defining you.
As others have offered, PM me if you want to hear another perspective.
@webmaster I hate you . . . . . i'll never get the time back I spent looking at that thread. Ugh !
zachrogers80
New Member
I’m gonna major in finance in college and as of now want to go in and fly after college. I can always do something in the financial industry after the military. But who knows maybe I’ll be contemplating the same situation you are in the future. All I know is if you don’t do it you very well may regret it in the future.
Your story is how I got my start in naval aviation. Back in 2012, I found AirWarriors and asked a very similar question (from my computer at my desk job of three or four years). I was just finishing college at the time and was set up pretty decently to move on to bigger and better office environments. I was also tremendously bummed out.
I love telling people that the reason I joined the Navy is because I was feeling low one day at the desk and started scrolling through Reddit when I saw a "Post a picture from your office" thread. In it, somebody posted a sunset from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. It was beautiful. I didn't have an office window in my cubicle.
Joined AirWarriors, asked the question, got told to use the Search Function. Used the search function. Reached out to an officer recruiter. Haven't looked back once in five years of service.
EDIT: Utterly unrelated to this post, but a laughable memory. I remember waiting for my first flight in Primary (must've been roughly October or November 2013), but due to the weather and the pipeline being slightly backed up, it was about two weeks before my first flight ended up launching. I remember complaining on AW about how bummed I was to be "grounded" (I'm sure the post is in my history but the thought of looking at it makes me dry heave). Got my peepee slapped by everybody on the forum (including esteemed veteran BZB, bless him). Turns out life is pretty fucking great when your biggest problems are 1.) Getting your shirt stays not to rub the hair off your legs, 2.) Having to wake up at 0600 to make muster so you can go to the beach all day, and 3.) Ending your beach-day streak to go flying.
I love telling people that the reason I joined the Navy is because I was feeling low one day at the desk and started scrolling through Reddit when I saw a "Post a picture from your office" thread. In it, somebody posted a sunset from the flight deck of an aircraft carrier. It was beautiful. I didn't have an office window in my cubicle.
Joined AirWarriors, asked the question, got told to use the Search Function. Used the search function. Reached out to an officer recruiter. Haven't looked back once in five years of service.
EDIT: Utterly unrelated to this post, but a laughable memory. I remember waiting for my first flight in Primary (must've been roughly October or November 2013), but due to the weather and the pipeline being slightly backed up, it was about two weeks before my first flight ended up launching. I remember complaining on AW about how bummed I was to be "grounded" (I'm sure the post is in my history but the thought of looking at it makes me dry heave). Got my peepee slapped by everybody on the forum (including esteemed veteran BZB, bless him). Turns out life is pretty fucking great when your biggest problems are 1.) Getting your shirt stays not to rub the hair off your legs, 2.) Having to wake up at 0600 to make muster so you can go to the beach all day, and 3.) Ending your beach-day streak to go flying.
You didn’t gain any knowledges? *ducks*
Actually, probably more of those than military movies, at least since the 1970s, anyway.
You can always join the military and come back to banking in 4-8 years (depending on your MOS). If you bank for 8 more years, it's pretty unlikely you'll be able to join the military.
FIDLAR "FUCK IT DOG LIFE'S A RISK"