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What was your breaking point?
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<blockquote data-quote="rezarxt" data-source="post: 16318748" data-attributes="member: 70094"><p>I'm impressed you made it 15. 7 years split between Guard/Active was enough for me. My body is pretty destroyed for not even being 30 yet. Numerous reasons pushed me out including:</p><p></p><p>1) Bad Leadership (this was 75% of it. I had terrible leadership except for one single leader). Fort Bliss wasn't a magnet for the Army's top leaders. </p><p>2) Terrible work life balance (even when in Garrison, I regularly worked until 7pm-8pm nightly)</p><p>3) Physical toll on body</p><p>4) Lack of mobility into the I.T. sector where my degree is. The army, in its infinite wisdom, made me Infantry instead of IT specialty.</p><p>5) Lack of upcoming deployments. Opportunities to go to Afghanistan/Iraq aren't what they used to be. Garrison life sucks</p><p></p><p>I sat down and said to myself "Where do you want to be at 50?" I wanted to be most of the way to retiring and have my health (or what was left of it). I knew I wanted to go back to school to get my Masters and I knew Post 9/11 would pay for it. I was a little nervous about getting out, but I can honestly tell you that I don't even regret it a little bit. I try to be an evangelist for those looking to make the jump into civilian world. Its difficult and you have to ask yourself do your goals align with the military? You only get one life, no point in wasting it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rezarxt, post: 16318748, member: 70094"] I'm impressed you made it 15. 7 years split between Guard/Active was enough for me. My body is pretty destroyed for not even being 30 yet. Numerous reasons pushed me out including: 1) Bad Leadership (this was 75% of it. I had terrible leadership except for one single leader). Fort Bliss wasn't a magnet for the Army's top leaders. 2) Terrible work life balance (even when in Garrison, I regularly worked until 7pm-8pm nightly) 3) Physical toll on body 4) Lack of mobility into the I.T. sector where my degree is. The army, in its infinite wisdom, made me Infantry instead of IT specialty. 5) Lack of upcoming deployments. Opportunities to go to Afghanistan/Iraq aren't what they used to be. Garrison life sucks I sat down and said to myself "Where do you want to be at 50?" I wanted to be most of the way to retiring and have my health (or what was left of it). I knew I wanted to go back to school to get my Masters and I knew Post 9/11 would pay for it. I was a little nervous about getting out, but I can honestly tell you that I don't even regret it a little bit. I try to be an evangelist for those looking to make the jump into civilian world. Its difficult and you have to ask yourself do your goals align with the military? You only get one life, no point in wasting it. [/QUOTE]
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