• capital@lemmy.world
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    2 years ago

    I’ll go against the grain here.

    I joined not long after high school because I wasn’t gonna be able to pay for college, not that I was a good student anyway.

    Spent most of my 4 year Air Force enlistment in the UK doing what I wanted - sysad, basically. Never deployed.

    Got out and worked for increasingly higher pay and now I make $250k+ without a college degree.

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      I joined not long after high school because I wasn’t gonna be able to pay for college, not that I was a good student anyway.

      Should you not be pissed off that this was one of the very few options you had in order to have a chance at success later in life because of your economic situation rather than touting this as a good idea?

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        2 years ago

        More options are better, usually, so sure, I would have liked the option not to join.

        But like I said, I’m a terrible student and still haven’t gone back to use my education benefit even though it would cost me nothing but time.

        I’m simply providing a counter to the sentiment “I don’t wanna die for some oil company”.

        To be honest, I think it every time I see people complaining about their prospects. Rather than bitch about it online, I did something to upgrade my socioeconomic status.