DR. IVIL RRRRROBOTNIK! I have returned! And you nincombots had better not screw up this time!
Silliness aside, I'm now playing the waiting game. Allow me to explain.So the day after I posted my previous blog, I was cleared to go to MEPS and do a physical and get sworn in and all that jazz, along with the contract, right? My sergeant gave me a wonderful warning, noting that it would be "One of the longest days of your life.". He was right. VERY right. Woke up at 2:30 AM to get myself prepared and cleaned up (We had room mates at the hotel, so I had to assure that we all got the right amount of time to prepare.) and got onto a shuttle into fort Jackson at 5 AM. Basically, for those of you that have gone to get your drivers license, you know how government operated facilities work - slowly and as boring as possible, right? This was like the pinnacle of testing your patience. I remember beginning at 5 AM in the morning, and then leaving the MEPS center at 4 PM. HOLY. ROBOTNIK'ING. SHIT. I spend quite literally the equivalent of a full day in there - and I wasn't done. It turns out that the doctor that gave me the final physical report was a complete and utter quack, and decided to make me metaphorically jump through some more hoops while playing a little tune on a music box. In more realistic terms, he learned about my metal bar in chest surgery (See blog god-knows-how-far-back, old members might remember), and decided that apparently because it was "For cosmetic purposes" (F*@&ing quack.) he would have me come back two days later to get scanned in all ways and forms. So I had to go back.2 days later, come back, go through like 3 different scanning procedures, and it was much like the physical procedure, but thankfully I had a book this time around - Salem's Lot, a good 651 pages of bad-ass vampire book, not that sissy twilight junk - it's stephen king, so you know it's good. I'm rambling though. so I now have all that taken care of, turn it in, and now they told me that I have to wait for the Sergeant General to approve it. that time has already gone by, and luckily, I got the OK, HOWEVER, now it has to be viewed by yet another doctor. This time, the wait is a good ETA of at the least, a week.So I'm playing the waiting game right now.
Why are you doing this again?>.< is it worth the effort?
I knew you'd see it my way. This avatar is much better than that other one.
Woke up at 2:30AM??!?!?!?!?!
Holy damn crap.@MMORPGfellow College isn't where I belong. Last thing I want to do is get stuck there for another 4 years doing the same crap I've been doing for awhile now. I can get training for a job I'm interested in, no cost, automatically comes with all benefits I need, I'm at the prime of my youth, and I'd prefer to make use of it, long term benefits as well, the list goes on.
@Mesenberg IMO, yeah, it is. If you look in the right place, direct your efforts, and all that jazz, you'll end up with a nice high rank job.@Kilin INDEED.@Josea Eh, it's not all that bad, really. It's just a matter of being able to manipulate your sleep schedule appropriately.that sounds painful to deal with…
It really isn't as bad as it's made out to be. If you have the motivation to do it, then it's definately possible. Cheesy as hell, but that's the truth of it IMO.