This is what stopped me from going through with signing up when I was 18. The recruiters kept telling me more and more fanstical jobs I could be doing as the conversation went on until I just stopped believing them, and knowing they could just put me whereever and I wouldn’t be able to leave for 4 years was very unappealing.
Side point: They made me take some computerized test in a back room and when I was finished that’s when the stories got all fanciful. First they said I could be a nuclear engineer, then they said a cryptographer, then they said I could be in intelligence where I’d be writing the news that the networks run. Each time they had a different job the pay went up and up and up. Once they hit the intelligence thing writing the news and said I’d be making at least 100k I completely stopped believing them, though not that they don’t have people writing the news, just that they’d pay some dipshit from the midwest $100k to do it.
This is what stopped me from going through with signing up when I was 18. The recruiters kept telling me more and more fanstical jobs I could be doing as the conversation went on until I just stopped believing them, and knowing they could just put me whereever and I wouldn’t be able to leave for 4 years was very unappealing.
Side point: They made me take some computerized test in a back room and when I was finished that’s when the stories got all fanciful. First they said I could be a nuclear engineer, then they said a cryptographer, then they said I could be in intelligence where I’d be writing the news that the networks run. Each time they had a different job the pay went up and up and up. Once they hit the intelligence thing writing the news and said I’d be making at least 100k I completely stopped believing them, though not that they don’t have people writing the news, just that they’d pay some dipshit from the midwest $100k to do it.