How do you be a NEET?
Do you live with your parents and they just don’t give a shit? or is it more of a trust fund kid thing.
They’re all over Reddit man
At least we’re safe here on Lemmy.
γvɒn ǝʜɈ nioį
Join Yvan? You mean join Lemmygrad?
Lemmygrad, not even once
Have you considered that Glorious Leader Putin is invading Ukraine to restore the Soviet Union and fight Nazis, not because he’s a fascist twatwaffle funding the rise of the global far right and murdering his neighbors for power and money?
For now
He’ll be married to a stripper in no time
Don’t forget his brand new sportscar that his stripper wife’s boyfriend totalled while he was deployed
And the proud owner of a Mustang with a 28% APR loan.
V6 Mustang with only 167,000 miles.
Be on site military contractor
Told I’ll be making infinitemoney.jpg
Actually make slightlymorethangs.jpg but with no pension
Tfw ptsd from analyzing combat footage
Tfw actively and daily shunned as “not one of us, just a dirty filthy contractor”
Tfw you can’t get another engineering job because your entire portfolio is classified
Tfw when there is no mental health support or support groups available for aforementioned “just a dirty filthy contractor” reasons
Decide to go back to college instead of killing self
Check brand new school email
“Hi, my name is Sgt Fuckface! Here at the national guard we’re looking for promising young graduates like you”
Tfw you can’t get another engineering job because your entire portfolio is classified
I once got a “redacted” resume from someone who used to work in defense. Basically they just had a bunch of line items like
- Developed back-end for ████████████████████ in Spring microservices, which is deployed in ██████████████████ used by ██████████ operations daily
It got the point across about their skills and honestly they got an interview from it
I used to work for a company that contracted out programmers to a defense contractor (Northrup Grumman). It honestly never even occurred to me to redact out the stuff I worked on when I put it in my resume. Nobody said anything about that when I left the company, even though I’d gotten a security clearance to work at NG in the first place. I wonder if your “redacted” person just did it themselves to create a sense of mystery.
The way you get around it is discussing what is possible in person. You write a few bullets about your skills but not tied to the contracting. Don’t be specific, it’s not needed.
I don’t even put my military stuff on resumes anymore.
I mean it’s obviously total bullshit as is, but the fucking link at the bottom really seals the deal… I’m totally convinced now…
Weird, why would it be a .com link as opposed to .gov or .mil?
Because the US government pays a private company to advertise for them
On one hand this is totally just an ad. On the other hand being a suicidal neet is not sustainable.
On the third, radioactive hand, there are 15000 ways to not be a suicidal neet that don’t involve being a shill for the orphan (and adult) crushing machine
I don’t know if trying to recruit 4channers is a bottom of the barrel scraping, or just a clear view of how they see every recruit.
Dude should have just walked down to the local mechanic. Better pay and hours
Would a local mechanic train a stranger who had zero knowledge?
Yes. More often than you think. If you can tell a 1/2 inch wrench from a pair of pliers you are already ahead of some applicants.
You get a job as an oil tech sweeping floors and if you aren’t an idiot, you will learn on the job and study. Eventually you take the ASE certification tests and are then a mechanic. If you are looking to get into a performance shop, this is the best route to go because you will learn specialty knowledge and can eventually be paid well, but those jobs are hard to get and you have to really make an effort and put up with a lot of shit to get to a great place in your career.
You can do college courses to get a degree and then pass ASE certs. You can then get a job in a shop and will have to prove you aren’t just someone who can pass a test before you are actually a mechanic.
There are trade schools, which you can get scholarships for or be sponsored to go to. The sponsorships usually come from working in a dealer shop, some sponsorships are for secondary trade schooling(like diesel tech) and they pay for the secondary schooling and will give you a job for a certain number of years after under contract. I know a few people who had Ford pay for their diesel program, one is doing really well for himself and the other failed out because of a girl and was on the hook for thousands to pay back Ford.
If you want to make great money, you will have to work for 5+ years in an Audi dealer and then can try to work for an exotic car dealership. You can work for an exotic dealer with experience from a brand like Toyota with a degree or the right trade school, but you are less likely to get the job.
I have a buddy who went from smoking crack to making more money than me in a year working as a mechanic being trained basically from scratch. Now that’s obviously anecdotal but it does happen.
Are you now a mechanic? If not, why not?
Probably still likes smoking crack. It is a powerful drug.
Oh no, I’m not in that field at all.
My soft, delicate hands
You can go to college on budget
In fact, you can do them with thrown away magazine clippings.
If it was because of typo, then good one
Car mechanic? Nah. Maybe reading many articles from internet and watching many videos can somewhat help with theory, but not with pranctice and foundational knowledge. Well, maybe you can get foundational knowledge if you follow what people learn in colleges, but then getting on budget is probably easier. Practice still would be a problem.
I believe they were making a joke about your use of the word “collage.”
The Army doesn’t either. He scored highly on the test for that.
The ASVAB tests for aptitude, hence the name, not the ability to step into a job without training. Looks up practice questions for the Mechanical Comprehension portion to see the kinds of questions that might suggest someone could be a good mechanic.
The U.S. army absolutely does provide training to its mechanics, and does not assume people know jack shit coming in. I scored high enough on the MM portion of the ASVAB to be one and don’t don’t know a damn thing about fixing vehicles.
That sounds like the responsible thing to do, with reasonable expectations
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I thought the army gave recruits an IQ test and then trained them for what it thought they were good for.
Some portions of the ASVAB have questions very similar to those you might find on an IQ test, but it is much more broad than just IQ.
My parents didn’t let me or my sister to go to school on the ASVAB test day. They didn’t want recruiters contacting them constanty.
Good call
Wait. Some school districts actually have everyone take this by default? Our public schools kept the recruiters in a dark corner of an unused hallway behind the library and you had to actually go out of your way to talk to one to make an appointment for ASVAB testing
This was a long time ago, and in a city with a military base.
That’s probably for the best.
I spent 4 years in the USMC and have a very complicated relationship with my time enlisted. There is a lot I’m proud of, but there’s also a lot that would be nice to forget.
Did you file with the VA? If not, you need to. Get all the benefits possible.
I filed three times after getting out, got a lot of “we lost it, file again! Haha!” I told myself since all my limbs are attached, didn’t deserve anything. Someone finally convinced me otherwise and now I get a little extra every month as well as being able to go to the VA for routine stuff.
Idk man, friend of mine works as a mechanic for the airforce and makes ~78k/yr, gets a large housing bonus, and has access to military loans that have really good terms, comparatively.
Ignoring the whole military lifestyle bs that he has to go through, it’s not that bad for someone who really doesn’t know what to do with themselves.
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It’s not terrible, but the housing allowance is because they force you to move wherever they want. And that salary is within the normal range:
https://www.salary.com/research/salary/listing/aircraft-mechanic-salary
You are looking at the “pros” without really seeing the “cons”.
He doesn’t work on aircraft. He works on other vehicles needed on base. Much of his income isn’t taxable, so he effectively brings home more than average. Not to mention Healthcare is paid for, even if it’s not that great.
The “having to live wherever they want” part is a non issue for some people anyway. Though I agree I would see that as a significant con.
I just looked at the enlisted pay table charts. Unless he lives somewhere with high COLA payments and has kids, he probably isn’t making 78k/yr.
If there is one thing we love in the military, it’s telling big fish stories.
The US army uses basic socialist policies (we will help you if you’re dying from cancer etc) to recruit. It only works because the US state refuses to take care of its subjects. The moment people are no longer desperate, the recruitment numbers will fall.
No kidding, wish we would just develop these policies for everyone, not just military service.
Except if you get cancer while in they medically discharge you and leave you with nothing. “Go file with the VA!”
I was in for ten years and saw it happen multiple times.
I heard people got respiratory cancers specifically from being in the military and having been instructed to burn piles of trash without proper safety equipment.
And then they got discharged, fucked over sideways by the VA, and died. Welp.
The VA has to process the claim, and in the meantime you get no medical treatment for anything.
Let’s use the cancer. You are in, a fine soldier, and get diagnosed with cancer. Not only do you now lose your job, but you lose your entire life and support system. You instantly lose your house, medical coverage, and source of income. All of it is gone immediately along with any plans for retirement.
You now go home, your wife has also left you because you are now a shitbum with cancer, and owe $2000/mo in child support based on military income and you have no means to pay it. You file with the VA to get your cancer taken care of and are told it may be 12-36 months before it’s processed.
You get a minimum wage job since civilian employers don’t care about military experience. Most of your check is garnished for child support but still isn’t enough so you lose your driver’s license. You cannot pay rent so apply for homeless veteran housing which has a ten year waitlist. So you are now homeless and working, slowly dying of cancer on the sidewalk. You try to get help at a hospital, but since you are a veteran they say “VA has got you”.
There you lay, rotting from the inside, wondering how it all went wrong when only two months ago you were counseling soldiers on why they shouldn’t buy cars at 29% interest and to make better life choices. Yes, this exact scenario plays out all the goddamn time.
hey man… recruiting’s fucking hard. it’s harder than ever for them to make their numbers. I feel bad for 'em because it’s fucking hopeless. but also, fuck recruiters lol, because when they stop giving fucks, you end up with someone really neet on your squad
I hate recruiters because they encourage naive teenagers to become professional killers at an age and level of experience where they cannot understand what that means.
Half the point of basic training is to break or subvert the part of the brain that questions authority and objects to doing violence. Psychologically, humans are not designed for killing other humans. Taking a life is difficult for a good fucking reason, and bypassing that instinct is dangerous.
Half the point of basic training is to break or subvert the part of the brain that questions authority and objects to doing violence. Psychologically, humans are not designed for killing other humans. Taking a life is difficult for a good fucking reason, and bypassing that instinct is dangerous.
Valid point. I do worry, though, without the training you describe - which I went through - is reverting to pre-ww2 training where soldiers would freeze up in combat instead of reverting to their training (hopefully). At the end of the day, soldiers are trained for combat, and I wouldn’t want to put people into those situations without as realistic a training regime as we can devise; you train as you fight so you don’t have to sacrifice soldiers to gain the proficiency to operate in a combat environment.
Ideally we’d get rid of war.
Yeah, I agree, if you’re actually taking a life. If there’s a Hitler on the loose, then teach the soldiers to kill without remorse. But why exactly is the US spending the same amount of money as the next 9 countries put together in peacetime? Most soldiers won’t take a life, and the ones who do are doing something pointless and evil. Why are we breaking young people’s minds in a time of peace?
And y’all actually do have two pretty good reasons for war right now, those being the Russian invasion of Ukraine and the Israeli genocide of Palestine. What’s the point in having all those trained killers if you’re not gonna use them, and if you’re not gonna bother going to war for actual good reasons why bother training all those killers?
There was a good reason to break young people back when they had to go fight the Nazis. What’s the point now??
let me check the big book of answers for impossible questions…
uh, you know, it says here: jack shit.
but thanks for turning an attempt at dialogue into whatever this was.
Why are we breaking young people’s minds in a time of peace?
Because if there is no military, we can’t bully anyone or they’ll just invade us.
Green text, green uniform
Maybe not fed, just fod
> be in military
> get inconsolable trauma and my legs blown off for oil company
> end up homeless anyways and die of a drug overdoseGod, I love this country. USA! USA!
From the way you use backslashes instead of regular slashes, you already have brain damage so you may as well enlist
I use backslashes because that’s how you create newlines with Markdown. I don’t know what your client is showing, but this is what it looks like on my end:
It just shows the greater than signs on the website. Which fits even more since that’s the 4chan format.
Yeah, it previously was quoted but I just remembered how to fix it (also with backslashes)
It’s unfortunately broken on Sync
People getting wise to the military. Many would defend their country, but don’t want to die for an oil company to make an extra thousand. Guessing which is more likely is left as an exercise for the reader.
Yeah, catch me joining the army when we’re fighting actual nazis again. Til then I’m good at home
“… til then I’m good at home.” Funny, that’s most likely where you’ll have to kill some Nazis next.
So… civil war?
I mean listen if the army wants to help my anti fascist organizing I’ll take a missile launcher to stand against the proud boys. They really won’t be ready for me to bring a tank to pride
Hah. Staying home and joining up may not end up being mutually exclusive
And the good thing is you’ll have plenty of warning because your government is unlikely to join the war against the nazis for a good couple of years into the war against the nazis.
I jest…but kinda not really given current US foreign policy (or that of the past 100yrs tbh)
If Nazis touch our boats, we will get involved. We really don’t like it when someone touches our boats.
Vatniks lol
Fight Ukraine (whose president is Jewish) and Vote Trump to Fight Nazis!!!
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Do army recruiters fall under “fed”?
Don’t they work for the federal government?
I think “fed” is typically used to refer to the 3 letter alphabet agencies, but as you are technically correct (the best kind of correct), I’ll accept it
3 letter alphabet agencies
DoD
Department of “Defense”
Who are the big 3 in your opinion? Cause for me its 4 ATF, FBI, CIA, and IRS. If youre curious why the CIA is in there its because Rednecks in my region associate them with Mormons and damn do we hate the polygamy cultists. Still better than the hypocritical pacifist cultists though.
I think they specifically meant that there are 3 letters in the names of each agency, not 3 agencies. That’s how it’s usually used.
Where NSA?
Forgotten and lumped in with the FBI cause Redneck reasons.
If you’re curious why the CIA is there it’s because it’s one of the federal agencies people talk about when mentioning the feds and you must be smoking some strong shit so I would be worried about the DEA if I were you.
US Army sometimes abbreviated USA.
