The Official Status Update Thread: Part 81 - Raiders of the Lost Ark

[RedneckReject]

Well, there is plenty of that here on INGO, Advice. Most of it is wrong, but we have plenty of it.

Touche

 

[HandK]

good one


you are a wise French Man

I have always said "Women have boobs and men are boobs!! It's the truth!! we just have to live with it!

 

[mbills2223]

My significant other actually convinced me to join. Now he regrets it

Advice? In the break room???? Perish the thought! What's up?

Hahaha I know!

Well, as most of you in here know, I'm in pharmacy school. Fine and dandy, love it, three of six years left. Gonna be in a whole MOUNTAIN of student loan debt (private, I don't take those handouts ) I've also always wanted to serve my country, fine. The Navy and Air Force are taking pharmacy students. However, as of now, I don't qualify for their programs. I will before I graduate, probably next year. However, I also really wanna fly birds. (I know, why did you go to pharmacy school?) So... Would it be completely idiotic to go straight from pharmacy school to Officer Candidate School for the USMC, knowing full well that they don't offer any sort of loan repayment. Yes, I could probably get a spot in aviation, but...I'm also gonna be ~180K in debt to Sallie Mae. But...I really wanna join the Corps. But...my family and significant other don't want me to...So much to do...so little time.

Phew...feels better just to have typed it all out.

 

[Sylvain]

Someone taught you well

The longest recorded sniper kill is over 2 500 yd, so within this distance any woman holding a gun is amazing.

 

[MrsGungho]

Hahaha I know!

Well, as most of you in here know, I'm in pharmacy school. Fine and dandy, love it, three of six years left. Gonna be in a whole MOUNTAIN of student loan debt (private, I don't take those handouts ) I've also always wanted to serve my country, fine. The Navy and Air Force are taking pharmacy students. However, as of now, I don't qualify for their programs. I will before I graduate, probably next year. However, I also really wanna fly birds. (I know, why did you go to pharmacy school?) So... Would it be completely idiotic to go straight from pharmacy school to Officer Candidate School for the USMC, knowing full well that they don't offer any sort of loan repayment. Yes, I could probably get a spot in aviation, but...I'm also gonna be ~180K in debt to Sallie Mae. But...I really wanna join the Corps. But...my family and significant other don't want me to...So much to do...so little time.

Phew...feels better just to have typed it all out.

That is a very personal decision that only you can make.

Let me say this though

there is NOTHING more handsome than a Marine in Dress Blues.

 

[mbills2223]

That is a very personal decision that only you can make.

Let me say this though

there is NOTHING more handsome than a Marine in Dress Blues.

That's the one part my fiancee is supportive of. She fully supports my joining the Navy or Air Force, as a pharmacist...Marine Officer, different story

 

[RedneckReject]

Hahaha I know!

Well, as most of you in here know, I'm in pharmacy school. Fine and dandy, love it, three of six years left. Gonna be in a whole MOUNTAIN of student loan debt (private, I don't take those handouts ) I've also always wanted to serve my country, fine. The Navy and Air Force are taking pharmacy students. However, as of now, I don't qualify for their programs. I will before I graduate, probably next year. However, I also really wanna fly birds. (I know, why did you go to pharmacy school?) So... Would it be completely idiotic to go straight from pharmacy school to Officer Candidate School for the USMC, knowing full well that they don't offer any sort of loan repayment. Yes, I could probably get a spot in aviation, but...I'm also gonna be ~180K in debt to Sallie Mae. But...I really wanna join the Corps. But...my family and significant other don't want me to...So much to do...so little time.

Phew...feels better just to have typed it all out.

Would you be finishing school first? Or at least continuing with it after you join?

 

[MrsGungho]

That's the one part my fiancee is supportive of. She fully supports my joining the Navy or Air Force, as a pharmacist...Marine Officer, different story

I've been married twice, both times to a Marine. if that tells you anything at all

 

[HandK]

Hahaha I know!

Well, as most of you in here know, I'm in pharmacy school. Fine and dandy, love it, three of six years left. Gonna be in a whole MOUNTAIN of student loan debt (private, I don't take those handouts ) I've also always wanted to serve my country, fine. The Navy and Air Force are taking pharmacy students. However, as of now, I don't qualify for their programs. I will before I graduate, probably next year. However, I also really wanna fly birds. (I know, why did you go to pharmacy school?) So... Would it be completely idiotic to go straight from pharmacy school to Officer Candidate School for the USMC, knowing full well that they don't offer any sort of loan repayment. Yes, I could probably get a spot in aviation, but...I'm also gonna be ~180K in debt to Sallie Mae. But...I really wanna join the Corps. But...my family and significant other don't want me to...So much to do...so little time.



Phew...feels better just to have typed it all out.

Well you need to stop writing those scrip's of Prozac out to your self!!





Give them to the rest of us!!

 

[RedneckReject]

I've been married twice, both times to a Marine. if that tells you anything at all

So that's my problem!! Both times I was married it was to a loser, not a Marine.

 

[mbills2223]

Would you be finishing school first? Or at least continuing with it after you join?

I would finish school first, yes. There would only be one 6 week training session during the summer for the Marines before I graduate. Everything else would be after graduation.

I've been married twice, both times to a Marine. if that tells you anything at all

Well you need to stop writing those scrip's of Prozac out to your self!!





Give them to the rest of us!!

Don't blame me! I'm only the pusher!

 

[MrsGungho]

hey mbills... quick question... if you have to start taking synthroid for hypothyroidism, will you ever be able to go off it?

 

[SEIndSAM]

Hahaha I know!

Well, as most of you in here know, I'm in pharmacy school. Fine and dandy, love it, three of six years left. Gonna be in a whole MOUNTAIN of student loan debt (private, I don't take those handouts ) I've also always wanted to serve my country, fine. The Navy and Air Force are taking pharmacy students. However, as of now, I don't qualify for their programs. I will before I graduate, probably next year. However, I also really wanna fly birds. (I know, why did you go to pharmacy school?) So... Would it be completely idiotic to go straight from pharmacy school to Officer Candidate School for the USMC, knowing full well that they don't offer any sort of loan repayment. Yes, I could probably get a spot in aviation, but...I'm also gonna be ~180K in debt to Sallie Mae. But...I really wanna join the Corps. But...my family and significant other don't want me to...So much to do...so little time.

Phew...feels better just to have typed it all out.

I know several people who are struggling to pay student loans, and a heck of a lot less than you have. The sooner those are paid off, the happier you will be as you are in middle age. Do you want to raise kids with that kind of student load debt dogging you????

As someone who is 50, there was a lot of debt in my 20's & 30's I wish now I had never incurred. My advice to any younger man is to try to avoid or pay off any debt besides a mortgage as soon as possible. Just my 2 cents.

 

[MrsGungho]

I am still happily married to Marine #2... although not so happy today, but all married couples go through days like that now and then

 

[RedneckReject]

I am still happily married to Marine #2... although not so happy today, but all married couples go through days like that now and then

We all have those days. Or weeks. Or months. I think my relationship is awesome now because we never see each other. When we do, we're happy to be together. When we were together all the time we fought constantly

 

[mbills2223]

hey mbills... quick question... if you have to start taking synthroid for hypothyroidism, will you ever be able to go off it?

Unlikely. It's a condition that pretty much follows you through life. On the bright side, you will feel a whole heck of a lot better once you start taking it. Not a whole lot of common side effects. It's dirt cheap, brand or generic. Most stores have it on their $4/$11, etc. programs. The trick is finding the right dose! It's an extremely narrow dosing window. I've seen some crazy scripts come through. Take 1 110mcg tablet every three days and take 75mcg tablet every other day, etc. But once they get it nailed down...

And of course, feel free to message me about it anytime (or just ask in here, whichever you prefer)

I know several people who are struggling to pay student loans, and a heck of a lot less than you have. The sooner those are paid off, the happier you will be as you are in middle age. Do you want to raise kids with that kind of student load debt dogging you????

As someone who is 50, there was a lot of debt in my 20's & 30's I wish now I had never incurred. My advice to any younger man is to try to avoid or pay off any debt besides a mortgage as soon as possible. Just my 2 cents.

I appreciate that input, and the student loans haning over my head is the major thing stopping me from jumping right in. I love everything about the Corps, but my situation is less than ideal. On the bright side, coming out of the Corps whether it be in three years or thirty, I would still have my PharmD., and with that salary the loans start to look more like pocket change (ok, not exactly ). It's tough to weigh out the options. Becoming a Marine would certainly better certain aspects of who I am, and it would DEFINITELY help me land my dream job as a clinical pharmacist at the VA, working with veterans, but who is to say I couldn't do that anyway. Ah...Big boy decisions

 

[jdmack79]

Hello everyone.

 

[mbills2223]

Hello everyone.

Just in time. What's up?

 

[SEIndSAM]

Howdy JDMack. Get any .38 loaded???

 

[SEIndSAM]

I'll have some more to send you soon.

I was at the range Sunday and it occurred to me that I hadn't practiced using my .38 EDC for a month, put a 100 round box through it.