am i silly? should i think of the peace corps?
― logged out who needs to get out, Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:35 (twenty years ago)
― Huk-L (Huk-L), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:37 (twenty years ago)
does the AmeriCorps still exist, or did Dubya completely defund it?
― kingfish da notorious teletabby (kingfish 2.0), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:39 (twenty years ago)
― TOMBOT, Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:40 (twenty years ago)
― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:41 (twenty years ago)
― Pleasant Plains /// (Pleasant Plains ///), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:45 (twenty years ago)
USAF started making people go through a real boot camp recently, which I'm sure is a disappointment to many.
― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:49 (twenty years ago)
I feel your malaise. I am half a semester short of finishing school FER EVAH and the last thing I want to do is finish the fucker. Just get me outta here.
My advice is thus:1) Suck it up, and finish the degree. It will be so much easier now than any time in the future. And ANY degree shows that you are trainable and makes getting a job that much easier.2) Then pick something like Peace Corps, AmeriCorps, Teach for America (my favorite - Mississippi Delta '98!) or something and travel to a whole other part of the country. It could be an AWESOME experience for you.
Don't just up and leave what you are so close to finishing. Seriously.
― Big Loud Mountain Ape (Big Loud Mountain Ape), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:10 (twenty years ago)
― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:12 (twenty years ago)
― nabisco (nabisco), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:28 (twenty years ago)
if pleasant plains ever leaves me thats where im heading.
― sunny successor (katharine), Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:30 (twenty years ago)
Most often, he has come to the Legion to escape from his past.
Generally, he has joined because of a personal or family crisis or an upheaval in his social or political life. Striking examples of this can be found in the mass enlistment of Alsatians after 1871, of Spaniards in 1939 and of Eastern Europeans after 1945.
For others, those who are unable to deal with the limitations of a middle-class life, the Legion represents a life of adventure.
In the enlistment procedure, selection is very tough. Many candidates are turned down for medical reasons, or after a thorough study of their individual cases. The legionnaire is seldom an angel but never a criminal.
Once he has joined, under an assumed name if he wishes, the legionnaire enjoys an unequaled protection for as long as he serves, because of the anonymity rule. Only he can decide when to break it.
http://www.ambafrance-us.org/atoz/legion/index.asp
― andy --, Thursday, 9 March 2006 21:34 (twenty years ago)
i mean, i should definately finish school, im just so sick of living a life i hate.
― logged out who needs to get out, Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)
That's what America is all about, isn't it?
Why wouldn't it be possible? Of course it's possible. Now, if you have loans/debts, that might put some limitations, but not that many.
20 credits is how many semesters? I don't know, if you can finish it's better to finish, but if you can't, you can't.
― dar1a g (daria g), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:18 (twenty years ago)
― Knute Rockne, All American (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:23 (twenty years ago)
― kephm (kephm), Thursday, 9 March 2006 22:47 (twenty years ago)
Finish school, even if it's the easiest degree you can get and you get all C's. Just finish. Then focus on what you're going to do next.
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:36 (twenty years ago)
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 9 March 2006 23:38 (twenty years ago)
I think you're having a hard day, or maybe are depressed, which might have something to do with your situation, and MIGHT NOT. Are you eating regular meals? Sleeping? Not going overboard with drink, etc? Things may not seem so overwhelmingly bad if you just tweak one or two of those things. It's never a bad thing to finish school. It's not like you'll miss your big chance.
― Beth Parker (Beth Parker), Friday, 10 March 2006 02:20 (twenty years ago)
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― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 January 2007 13:22 (nineteen years ago)
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― aimurchie (aimurchie), Friday, 12 January 2007 14:17 (nineteen years ago)