I have like 84 or 86 grand in college money plus the 100% tuition assisstance and free books ($4,500 per year)...

I would not have taken a job where i am shot at for a living if I were going to go to college. I am wasting it. All of it. 9 years of T.A ($40,500) pissed way, AND all of my credit for work experience has not been converted because I haven't gone to college for 2 course to get my 30-something credits...
I did take a close quater's defensive tactics course from the FBI through a community college once... so guess I was going to school for Advanced Tactics?

I guess I am the exception here

 

ABN are you still in the Army?

 

After highschool, Computer systems specialist/Network and system security. Working on my HTML4 cert, and i have my Photoshop cs4 cert lol, A+ by the end of the year

 

yeah man. it's my job and hobby (well it was before recruiting).

i have no college ambition. it's funny to see that EVERYONE here has big plans to soak up a degree.
My wife has and MBA and can't work because of our daughter. we have $60k in student loan debt for a cool looking piece of paper (well 2 if you count the BA).
I have a ton of college money and don't even touch it.

Either way, it's not for me. If I play my cards right and make it another year, I can post-9/11 it over to my oldest daughter, and we can blow her college fund on Vegas (put it on black, baby!) or something equally as dumb (my mortgage!)

 

I am currently in the process of transferring from community college to a university to get my degree in Secondary Education to teach math/history. Math major so i can always be employed and history major so i can teach what i really want to.

 

Well ABN if you love the Army then do your 20 man. I understand having no ambition for school. I didnt honestly until my ex made me (not really made me but pursuaded me) and Im actualy enjoying school. Im about to join back up with the Nasty Girls tho (national guard) for that extra pay a month. And luckly theres an infantry unit right here in statesboro

 

let me know how that goes for you man...

unless the NG is completely different, the new business rules that dropped last thursday say NO prior service can retrain (E-1 through E-9), AND the list of PS jobs that can come back in went down for 13 to like 9...

unless you're a Chuck... you might get your feelings hurt... again, the nasties may play by different rules, but as it stands the entire mission for FY 11 should be filled by March. Getting back in is nearly impossible RA or AR...

sorry to hijack your thread. if you want more info, i'll shoot you a PM or better yet, give one of those clowns a jingle and get the NG business rules... the longer you wait the harder it gets. seriously the rules have changed 5 times in 7 weeks, each time taking more and more option away...

 

Haha well its my thread so I say hijackings alright yeah I know the rules are getting ridiculous about things. But you know the NG always follow a different set of rules then active or reserves. I have someone that I know that's with the unit down here passing my info for me. Easier that way..

 

One of my biggest regrets is not taking advantage of the education opportunities that I had when I was in the army. I spent way too much time partying and drinking. To top it all off, my gi bill expired and i never used it, even though i paid for it.

Gettint back to the op, I'm currently attending college of western idaho for criminal justice.

 

Yeah man it sucks they put a cap on how long you got on the gi bill. I kick myself in the rear everyday for not taking core classes at least in the army