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As much as reporters can feel sorry for themselves these days I am sorry soldier will always be the worst job. Not only are you expected to run up hills but you need to kill people (who are trying to do the same) once you get to the top and do so while often sleep and food deprived (yes yes there are many other roles but they all generally suck big time in one way or another). The hardest job I will ever love you for doing.
days I am sorry soldier will always be the worst job. Not only are you expected to run up hills but you need to kill people
You obviously have never done the job. I have, and while thoroughly stressed at certain times, enjoyed it very much, as did many of the people I served with.
never done the job. I have, and while thoroughly stressed at certain times, enjoyed it very much
Unclear which job you are talking about, reporter or soldier, but I'll assume reporter.
Also it's important to note that stress and enjoyment are not related. Otherwise there would be no soldiers and everyone would be queueing up to be a - what was that one again? Information security analyst, whatever that is. Some poeple love being stressed, others fall to pieces. Some love the quiet life, others go spare. It's all about the individual...
I can't say for soldier and knowing some of the exeriences ex-squaddies I work with have gone through some of them did not have fun times recently, but others did not have it as stressful.
How do you measure it anyway? A friends sister who is a paramedic was describing how she turned up to a gig only to find they could not intubate the guy they were tending to because he face had been too crushed by the falling object, let alone collecting heads of small children after car crashes and such.
There's some pretty tough people ot there doing shitty jobs.
There is stress and then there is PTSD and though soldiers aren't the only ones that get it it does tend to be more of occupational hazard for them than most other professions. As for combat (which admittedly a large portion of soldiers never experience) I have heard it it can be very addictive. My point to be clear is not that nobody enjoys that job but just that honestly as you can probably attest too its more of lifestyle (and not an easy one) than a job. I guess of course worst is in the eye of the beholder. I respect the hell out of anyone for doing it honorably because for many people it does sound like the worst job in the world.
When I was an Enlistedman I made a whole $1.53 an hour at first, and I went in as a Specialist, E-4 paygrade. I have no idea how the Privates survived, they made less than I did. I don't remember what E-1 and E-2 pay was but E-3 was around 1000 and we were almost 1100. Sure, you're paid for 24 hours from when you show up at your reception battalion on your first day, but damn, it aint much pay til you either commission or get a warrant. I got a degree and went to WOCS by the time I was done and even then it wasn't that great of pay for the amount of work you do. You have to enjoy it or else you'll just leave after 4 years. For me, It was a grand total of like 1,100 in pay a month, before Social Security, Medicare, and taxes.
My home of record was in Florida, so at least I didn't have State taxes. I mean they do a lot benefit wise while you're serving, we got Basic Allowance for Housing which for me was like 2000 dollars to cover rent, and like 300 bucks for food a month, and free to cheap healthcare, but the pay really sucks for the amount of work you have to do, and you just might get shot at or blown up depending on your job.
You pick sapper or route clearance, armor/cav, combat aviation, MP, EOD, transportation, FISTer, Special Forces, petroleum logistics, or infantry, you're going to be shot at or blown up a lot more often than someone in CMF 14 (Air Defense Artillery) or in a water purification detachment because the very nature of your job is forward.
I admit the U.S. military is not a lucrative employer. But you're saying $3400 dollars a month. That is more than most of the people I know today are making. Working class people in the town I live in are making 12-14 dollars per hour. Some laborers are at 8-10. That is $1600-$2400 a month.
My military experience was Navy, in Jacksonville, in the 80s. It wasnt bad at first, but the bennies eroded over time. Commissary in particular.
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