vickey0070
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This is absolutely true !!!
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- Thread starter Charles Edward
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English major, so you can write your NYT best seller about BUD/S and your time in the sandbox.
Seriously, I found writing skills critical to officering and woefully lacking in too many.
I had an English major as my Safety Department Head, and I’d prep some stuff for our SOP and have it handed back to me all red-lined up and rewritten. In time I recognized it as best education I got.
Clear writing is clear thinking.
Ghostwriter. Offices are next to the pawn shops at Coronado
exNavyOffRec
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I had a Reactor Officer that had a tech degree but had taken a lot of writing classes. I would send up a report each month and each month he would mark it up and send it back saying "we need to have this looking good when it goes to the CO", I told him repeatedly "this doesn't go to the CO, I put the numbers in a document in shared drive, this report stops with you". I would take the one he was happy with and the next month put numbers in that one, and the cycle would continue. I talked to the Dept MCPO about it and he said he would do the same thing with other reports that ended with him spending hours making corrections and then the next month making correction to what was essentially the correction he had done.
He was fired a few months later.
Do what HAL said. Always have a plan B. I even like to have a plan C. I'd say both engineering and physics provide a solid foundation for any number of job opportunities, keeping in mind that your "BS in engineering/physics" from 10-20 years ago and no relevant work experience isn't going to be a viable plan B after the Navy, aside from our TPS friends. Do what you think you will excel in, i.e. what interests you the most. You'll be in flight school and beyond with plenty of Thai Dolphin Massage studies majors who will be very successful in this business as well. This is a trade, unrelated to anything you learned in college, though math/science can be a little useful at times.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
Speaking of… whatever happened to HAL?
I don't know the details, but as I understand it, some months back the site was briefly offline due to some differences of opinion on content moderation, and Hal was asked and/or decided not to come back.
FormerRecruitingGuru
Making Recruiting Great Again
That makes sense, he definitely had no issue calling a spade a spade,
vickey0070
Member
I have known few guys with Finance degrees performing well in the aviation mainly flying UAV and pilot slots too.
Also, the technical degrees can open doors for a plan B in the Navy. I've got a buddy who got grounded for some medical stuff and he had to redesignate from NFO. He's now an EDO all because he had a technical degree. That means no silly SWO business for him. AMDO and CEC are also other options. It's good to have options when the shit hits the fan.