I was in a similar situation, except it was due to depression specifically. I thought that getting out would possible prevent me from the suicide that I knew was coming due to the stress/isolation of prototype, and eventually the fleet, which was promised to be worse. Additionally, I was an ET, and every single ET instructor I knew hated their job, and was nearly always stressed to the max and yelled at even for trying to make themselves available to students to get checkouts, which, even though it wasn't our fault, could not leave at a normal time because of this. So I asked myself, "Do I want to have this job? Perhaps with the addition stress of being cutoff from even the small comforts of an apartment? Especially with my already blooming depression? I, of course knew the answer.
I would have to leave the secure, and I must admit, very fascinating job that I both loved and hated. Would I get honorable or dishonorable? I would be alive, I was sure, and not eventually dead by my own hand, so it hardly mattered. Now, looking back, I know I made the right decision.
Since then, I have worked ET jobs, not wanting to leave my now wife in Charleston. Two years have passed since I got out of the navy, after only being in for two years. My depression has of course vanished after having time for friends and family, as well as not having the most disappointing and depressing job ever. I can't get GI bill, but I don't really care about that, I really think that now if I take the ACT again, it would be child's play after nuke school. (Also I scored pretty high originally before the navy.) Now we are looking to move to wherever I can get a well paying job in preparation for my coming child.
Now here's the part I need an answer to. Why are power companies virtually ignoring my job applications? I completed A school, power school, and most of prototype (but no cigar.) I have the honorable discharge paperwork, and say so in my resume. One guy for SCE&G who's number I had from a job fair even claimed that when I called him recently that he tried to call me but "It didn't go though apparently" and mysteriously the same thing happened to is email.
Am I on some kinda blacklist for doing nothing wrong? Why do I get nothing back, not even a "thanks for applying we'll call you." I know they might be assuming mast, but again I state explicitly HONORABLE DISCHARGE. What the hell???