It's insane you're seriously treating the military like a trade school with free housing. It isn't there to teach you "stuff," it's a meatgrinder refined over centuries to turn young men into cogs. Each of them thought they'd stay themselves, each one of them either come out a soldier or it takes a piece of you -- moral, physical, or both. If you think you'll find a clever way through, you won't. I had a short mandatory stretch, no contract, young and stupid, figured I'd play with real guns and maybe learn the machines. I spent more time being punished than not. Health problems after. Don't be a fucking idiot! Tell your friend to get the fuck out of that contract too. If your big problem right now is your annoying mom: you can walk out of your house. There, leaving is a criminal offense. You'll dream about the days when arguing at home was the worst thing in your life. Read this. Say you read it. At least think. Reading the contract won't save you -- they had lawyers and years to write it. Even if you spot a clause, you are not the one who gets to change it. Get that plan out of your head.
To the actual question: right now I'm working on a pilot license, plus biology and chemistry. Telling you that only to show we all have our own reasons to learn things. Learn what feels like yours.
It's insane you're seriously treating the military like a trade school with free housing. It isn't there to teach you "stuff," it's a meatgrinder refined over centuries to turn young men into cogs. Each of them thought they'd stay themselves, each one of them either come out a soldier or it takes a piece of you -- moral, physical, or both. If you think you'll find a clever way through, you won't. I had a short mandatory stretch, no contract, young and stupid, figured I'd play with real guns and maybe learn the machines. I spent more time being punished than not. Health problems after.
Don't be a fucking idiot! Tell your friend to get the fuck out of that contract too. If your big problem right now is your annoying mom: you can walk out of your house. There, leaving is a criminal offense. You'll dream about the days when arguing at home was the worst thing in your life.
Read this. Say you read it. At least think. Reading the contract won't save you -- they had lawyers and years to write it. Even if you spot a clause, you are not the one who gets to change it. Get that plan out of your head.
To the actual question: right now I'm working on a pilot license, plus biology and chemistry. Telling you that only to show we all have our own reasons to learn things. Learn what feels like yours.