"For the challenge"
I learned a lot more as time went on. I found out that I couldn't be a pilot with glasses, and I was darned if I was gonna sit in the backseat behind my pilot buddies and let them have all the fun. The ship drivers seemed to largely be a bunch of workaholic overreacting jerks, an initial impression that's reverified every time I meet a roving pack of them. I enjoyed parachuting out of airplanes and crawling around in the mud but the submarine job was much more intellectually stimulating (both nuclear engineering and the hunting business). Plus it paid way better and you still didn't have to shave every day.
Of course if I had any idea of how the business really worked, I never would have done it in the first place!
I chose the Navy because it seemed like an incredible challenge, far more than anything I'd encountered in high school. Plus a friend's older brother always seemed to be having a great time at home on leave-- sleeping late, covered in babes & beer, spending money like a "drunken sailor". Clearly that's the life for me.Question - What made some of the people choose a particular business? Was it because you knew how the business worked? Or was it becuase you had a great idea despite little knowledge as to how the business worked?
I learned a lot more as time went on. I found out that I couldn't be a pilot with glasses, and I was darned if I was gonna sit in the backseat behind my pilot buddies and let them have all the fun. The ship drivers seemed to largely be a bunch of workaholic overreacting jerks, an initial impression that's reverified every time I meet a roving pack of them. I enjoyed parachuting out of airplanes and crawling around in the mud but the submarine job was much more intellectually stimulating (both nuclear engineering and the hunting business). Plus it paid way better and you still didn't have to shave every day.
Of course if I had any idea of how the business really worked, I never would have done it in the first place!