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BNSF employment opportunity or stay in military...what do I do?
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daveklepper & trainjunky29, <br /> <br />Well, that's 28,000 plus 13,000 not taxed = 41,000 at Staff Sergeant. It took me (almost) ten years to reach that pay too (I've been a staff sergeant for nearly 5 years). It sounds better than in the past and it is. As an E1, I only started out at a little over $250 every payday (plus room & board). Today, most the Air Force kids (and I mean kids) start out at E3 pay with bonuses for signing up for 6 years. A new recruit makes more now than I did as an experienced E4 just a few years ago. The money for the military has gotten better (just the money), and it had to...otherwise you would have seen the dreaded draft to keep military forces strong. The bad thing about the new "kids" is that the military had to lower their standard to keep a steady flow of recruits coming in (and pay them bonuses). I always believed that common sense ruled, but now a days we get kids in the aircraft maintenance career field that have never had a job before signing up; literally getting an allowance until the day they got on the bus. Some don't know the difference between a phillips screwdriver and an adjustable wrench (not kidding) even after tech. training. That's a lot of who I get to train, supervise and work with on a $236 million aircraft. We had a parent (who's son got kicked out) call up and scream "you guys were supposed to make my son a man", and the response was - "we don't raise your kids, that's your job, you're supposed to send us capable young men (and women)". Sorry for ranting again... <br />Yeah, despite my complaints, it's not too terrible, I love and serve my country and would die for any a**hole for the sake of freedom. But now it feels like my time is done. I will have memories and friends from the military that I will always keep.
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