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60k in Canada isn't enough for 3 years, but I could definitely do a year or two with proper budgeting. I did live off of ~300/wk before but I don't want to do that again. If I could get even a min wage job in the meantime that would extend things a lot, though, but even in food service there isn't a lot around. Canada is super fucked up.
>See if there's something in the Navy you could transfer to.
I thought Cyber Op (defensive network security operations) but I need a network engineering degree for that and am only studying for my Sec+ now, even if I do have Wireshark at home. I could go the Air Force equivalent of what I do now, but that I don't doubt that trade is just as bad and I think it's adequately staffed right now (compared to what I do, which is "Hard Red" -- hemorrhaging people and having recruitment problems too) so it's doubtful they'd let me remuster to that.
I could go something more physical like Comms Research (SigINT nerds) or "Combat Systems Engineering" (glorified technicians) but those absolutely require going regular force (vice reserve) and taking on another contract for 5 years or more, and still being explicitly navy. I'd very much like to stay out of the navy though, I hate sailing. I don't have a lot of knowledge on air force trades, and fuck going a step down and becoming some kind of infanteer-adjacent thing like a combat engineer or actual infantry radioman. And besides, a large part of what I hate about work is that things could be done better and just aren't, so it falls to manual processes run by people who don't really know what they're talking about, left to us on the ground (or in the office) to execute. My platform doesn't even have taclink coverage, and C2 in general is a joke. I've been reading books about pen testing, and it seems like people at consulting firms actively attacking hostile networks manage to have better C2 structures than my actual warship.
>Don't waste your life working a position you hate.
I'd rather not, but what else is there to do? I browse job sites a lot, and it seems impossible to get a real job. Just to do first-line help desk needs a CISSP. Anything trades-y requires a red seal. Even line cooking or bartending needs extensive coursing and certificates from various ponzi-esque de-facto guilds.
Ironically, though,
>I've worked low-paying customer service jobs, and they're soul-crushing.
I was definitely happier when I was washing dishes for a mom-n-pop breakfast place. I hated the low pay, and was having a hard time in life for other reasons, but I've openly told other similarly bitter people at work I'd gladly go back. It was shitty work, but at the end of the day I didn't need to psych myself back up. Only reason I'd have to when going in is that I'm not a morning person. It was great to do something that obviously and objectively helps people, even if it's just making sure people have plates to eat pancakes off of. It's a small thing, but it directly enabled people to be happier leaving the joint than they were coming in.
In terms of the work environment, the only bad thing was that at that place I didn't have enough hours to sustain myself. If I worked there full time, I'd probably have never ended up joining the navy. Like I told the class at basic during the typical "who are you and why are you here" meet and greet, I had CVs out all over town, even a couple interviews, but the forces happened to call back first.
>>541979
>I'm asking why military folks keep mentioning combat as if that gives them special rights or considerations.
It doesn't and shouldn't.
I only highlight my lack of combat experience to further accentuate my feelings of uselessness on the job; the point of a state military is to promise or invoke violence, and not having done so personally is another source of failure in actualization. If I were to have done so, maybe my job would feel like it "meant something", but as it stands, doing useless things for a useless organization is only made a worse feeling by that organization not using me to do anything measurable even for them. Whatever your feelings are on whatever engagement or whole war, not participating in it in the first place is even more useless.
To work for a useless agency is one thing, it's another to be useless even within that agency.
>>541984
No; that was good. The takeaway hits. I should do something useful to people, and be more giving in general.
That said, though, one of the times I browsed job sites to see what's out there, I noticed a live-in nursing position, and somehow it required "CCA certified or equivalent" and "3+ years very high awareness of covid procedure and practical experience is essential" in 2021.
https://www.ahima.org/certification-careers/certification-exams/cca/
>>As of 12/31/19, there were 7,945 certified CCA professionals.
On top of 3+ years of "covid procedure". I only found that job posting in early 2021. User is currently banned from all boards |
