Gah. I've got Recruters up the ying yang!

Been called twice this week.. on an average of four times a month.

I guess the whole "I'm not interested." routine didn't work..

But hey, they're good at what they do! As some of you may know I want to go to school to be an Electrician after High School, and every recruter that calls goes on about the training I would get.

It's like a broken record, "Just hear me out, if you were to go to college you would spend money, right? Well in the army, you would get the training you want, AND get paid for it. Sounds cool right?"

-sigh-

So is this "training for a future occupation" what it's really cracked up to be, or is the recruiter just trying to suck me in? Haha.

Tell me about it, you're not the only one. I'm glad I finally graduated so I could get out of that recruiter trap!

I think there are two types of people, the people who will go fight in a war and the people who just won't. This is where I think recruiters are ineffective (and extremely annoying) because I know there are lots of people like myself who never want to fight in a war. Nothing that they could ever do or offer me would make me want to go.

iv been in for three years and counting. its just like anything else if your smart and make it work for you it will be the best thing you have done. if your dumb it will be the worst.

they paied for my college, i busted my ass and made rank and now i sit pretty and tell people what to do. now i became a reserve and i get the best of both worlds. soo all your taxes went to my school and in my pocket.

I did one of those lunch time pull-up compatitions and won a marines t-shirt for doing 20 pull-ups. They had me sign a "waver", so if i got hurt i couldnt sue, with my name phone number and address. Now i get letters in the mail form the marines, or army, or navy, like twice a week, and the Marines call my house.

I remember those days. They would call so much and at the wrong times. I just finally started telling them lies. Like, "Wrong number", "They don't live here anymore", "He did join, just can't reach him", "What are you talking about?".

Evently, they did stop calling. If I wanted to join the military. Well guess what, I work on the dang AFB as it is. I'm just not the trooper, but the supporter of the troops. Someone gotta take care of our marching soilders.

koda6966 said:

Been called twice this week.. on an average of four times a month.

I guess the whole "I'm not interested." routine didn't work..

But hey, they're good at what they do! As some of you may know I want to go to school to be an Electrician after High School, and every recruter that calls goes on about the training I would get.

It's like a broken record, "Just hear me out, if you were to go to college you would spend money, right? Well in the army, you would get the training you want, AND get paid for it. Sounds cool right?"

-sigh-

So is this "training for a future occupation" what it's really cracked up to be, or is the recruiter just trying to suck me in? Haha.

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What kind of electrician do you want to be?If industrial electrician is your thing check out the navy schools.Room and board,uniforms,meals,travel and college money in return for four years.And all the ojt you can handle.

If you were to join any branch get it in writing before you sign anything.

I remember when I was in school I had to take the test to see if I was qualified. Apparently I had really high scores in the mechanical area of the test.

They hounded me for months, before I finally stopped responding.

They'll do that to you man. I've heard of some tell people that they'll have no future unless they enlist. The military like what's been said by 4x4 fun, is you get out what you put in. To most people, it's just another job, just one you can't up and quit at a moment's notice. Good luck with the recruiters though. They'll try anything to get someone in.

My brother told them he was a radical communist and started preaching to all of them about the wonderfulness of Communism.

As I recall they only called once more afterwards.

Well, it isn't their fault they have to be annoying. They hate it. In the marines, and the rest are similar I'll bet, you have to do what called a B Billet--which is just a special job outside of your normal occupation. In the marines it's one of three things--recruiter, drill instructor, embassy duty. Of those three, drill instructor is probaby the most difficult because you have to get in ironman physical condition and it's just a crazy job--having to put up with nasty-ass thick headed recruits, scream at the top of your lungs all day, work looonnnggg hours for the 90 days you have a recruit class. Embassy duty is probably the hardest to get accepted to and actually graduate the school because you have to have your life put through a filter and if anything nasty pops up, you're out. And even after that test, there is a 50% failure rate at the school because you are going to be stationed somewhere in a 5-man detachment and you will have nobody backing you up if you pull a boner--they don't give you any slack because whatever happens to you out there on the job is international. If they have to send you home from bum-phawk darkest Africa they have to leave a 4-man post working swing shifts while they find another marine to replace you--which involves getting visas and things that are very difficult to obtain.

Very few people want either of those jobs so they twiddle their thumbs and eventually receive orders from Headquarters Marine Corps to report to the recruiter's school. So your recruiter definately doesn't want to be in his job. And then, they give them quotas they have to meet or they do mean things to them like make them sleep at the office until the quotas are met and leave nasty remarks in their record books. They can't quit their jobs like civilians. They may stretch it a little to get you signed.