Why would it be a necessity?
Regrets?
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I don't think it is, hence which is why I still enjoy my freedom, but I know people who have/had that mentality
In case my spy is reading. I regret buying 3 mustangs even
though I said I wasn't.
though I said I wasn't.
An old guy at works always says "Any truly good farter shits himself occasionally."
If I have one regret, it's not being very driven in high school. I should have joined ROTC, gotten into the Air Force Academy, and I'd probably be a fighter pilot with a rank of Major or Lt. Colonel right now. Instead, I skated through high school, went to a small college and got a degree in a major I honestly don't give a shit about, and then enlisted in the Air Force as an aircraft maintainer.
That being said, I don't think I'd change it because if I were a pilot in the AF right now, I'd probably have multiple divorces or be married to some gold-digging dependa right now instead of my awesome wife. I'd probably be stationed in some shithole too, rather than living in SLC, which I love, working in the UT Air National Guard full-time, which I also love. I've made a good life for myself and I wouldn't want to change that.
That being said, I don't think I'd change it because if I were a pilot in the AF right now, I'd probably have multiple divorces or be married to some gold-digging dependa right now instead of my awesome wife. I'd probably be stationed in some shithole too, rather than living in SLC, which I love, working in the UT Air National Guard full-time, which I also love. I've made a good life for myself and I wouldn't want to change that.
Nope, when I moved out and into base housing I found them homes. I would have found one for the mamma but I think the owner figured out what might be happening and took her somewhere. I initially named them Moe, Larry, and Curly but had to change Moe's name to Jake. Lol, my man didn't know what to do every time I said "NO" to any of the dogs. I haven't had another dog until 8 weeks ago when we got a Dutch Shepherd puppy. My wife made fun of me and asked if we should name him Moe. If you ask anyone but me, she's kinda funny.
I regret buying the house I currently own. It's so completely too big. We live in less than half of the actual space of the house. I can't wait to sell this place and downsize once my daughter graduates.
You enlisted in the AF after you got a college degree? Why enlist vs becoming an officer?
Probably Picking up smoking at 16 and failing quitting smoking.
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Yeah, that's a tough one. Started around that age and was able to break it 10 years later. Haven't bought a pack in 2 years.
I think my regret is not joining the military, not that I feel my life has not been bad but it would have been different.
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It was extremely competitive at the time and would have potentially taken up to a couple of years for me to get accepted. The reason was because with a degree in psychology, I was only eligible for a limited number of jobs. Mostly flying jobs. However, I had zero experience flying a plane, so I wasn't a strong candidate. I also wasn't a strong candidate for maintenance officer, as most of them actually are former enlisted. Having experience as an enlisted aircraft maintainer is actually a big advantage if you want to become a maintenance officer.
I was poor as hell and maybe a month away from having my utilities shut off. I also was a bit depressed and drinking A TON. I lived in Charleston, WV at the time, which is basically a 3rd world shit stain of a city where you need a Master's to make more than $40k a year unless you want to work in a coal mine. So I had to get the hell out of there.
Then, after enlisting, I got to my first duty station in 2009. The Obama administration had just started its decimation of the military. They were kicking people out left and right for things that would've just been a slap on the wrist a year earlier. There wasn't a single OTS board at that base while I was there. By the time they had another rated (pilot) board, I was too old to qualify. There were no non-rated boards (to become a maintenance officer) the whole time I was there.
All that is why I say that my big mistake was not making the military my focus in my teens.
Quitting this website/not buying this website.
You could have bought this from Travis?
Like anyone, I personally have a few things I would like a do-over on but the biggest regrets I have is putting too much faith in others only to get completely screwed by them. Many people are so incredibly shady and greedy that at 33 years old I don't feel the need to let anyone else into my life closer than arm's length away. The good news is that the (relatively) small group of people I have closer than that have all proven trustworthy.
I've been married for 2.5 months so take this with a grain of salt but unless you are absolutely, unequivocally 100% sure of marriage with a particular woman, don't do it. If there are any concerns (other than the very smallest) it will only get worse and you shouldn't consider marriage.
Don't get me wrong, I love my wife immensely and want to be with her forever, I just don't think marriage was necessary. She thought it was. Even though it was 17 months from proposal to wedding day, the wedding planning was an absolute nightmare - basically she couldn't make up her mind on lots of things and expected me to help with planning/arranging things, but I wasn't given the power to make decisions. Given that I didn't think marriage is necessary, nevermind a wasteful/stressful wedding, I'm sure you can see how well the planning went. (The upside to that is that the wedding day itself was great, since everything was taken care of we got to go to the gun range in the morning, the weather was beautiful for outdoor ceremony and everything went as it was supposed to during the ceremony/dinner/reception.)
Not only that, she totally went through a period of "post wedding letdown" which lasted about a month - it's a real thing, read up on it. She's been much happier the last 6 weeks but what should have been a great first month of marriage was actually pretty awful.
Now, 2.5 months later with all the wedding bills paid and thank you's sent we can focus on our life together without the giant distraction known as a wedding.
I've been married for 2.5 months so take this with a grain of salt but unless you are absolutely, unequivocally 100% sure of marriage with a particular woman, don't do it. If there are any concerns (other than the very smallest) it will only get worse and you shouldn't consider marriage.
Don't get me wrong, I love my wife immensely and want to be with her forever, I just don't think marriage was necessary. She thought it was. Even though it was 17 months from proposal to wedding day, the wedding planning was an absolute nightmare - basically she couldn't make up her mind on lots of things and expected me to help with planning/arranging things, but I wasn't given the power to make decisions. Given that I didn't think marriage is necessary, nevermind a wasteful/stressful wedding, I'm sure you can see how well the planning went. (The upside to that is that the wedding day itself was great, since everything was taken care of we got to go to the gun range in the morning, the weather was beautiful for outdoor ceremony and everything went as it was supposed to during the ceremony/dinner/reception.)
Not only that, she totally went through a period of "post wedding letdown" which lasted about a month - it's a real thing, read up on it. She's been much happier the last 6 weeks but what should have been a great first month of marriage was actually pretty awful.
Now, 2.5 months later with all the wedding bills paid and thank you's sent we can focus on our life together without the giant distraction known as a wedding.
I've been married 20yrs and I still remember going through all that and hating it. So much drama and stress. "I don't care, you decide" was the most heard thing out of my mouth for a year. I hope to convince my daughter to have a small wedding - like 20 people small, not the 150+ blowout we had.
When my wife and I got married, the place we got married at had a wedding planner there. They handled EVERYTHING. All we had to do was decide what we wanted for cake/decorations and they handled the rest. 100% stress free.
Yup, I said that many times as well. Women take that as not caring about the relationship when in reality, I just really didn't give a shit about the color of the flowers or of the ties we wore or what the centerpiece decorations would be!
Newp, from earlier than that.
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