NukeWorker Forum
Career Path => Navy Nuke => Navy:Getting In => Topic started by: robofet998 on Mar 08, 2018, 07:16
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I have been considering about becoming a nuke ever since a family friend suggested it to me a few years ago. I am now a senior in high school who has take the ASVAB and I earned a 95. I plan to enter the military as either a nuke or in the reserves of one of the branches of the military. The only reason I am not 100% going to become a nuke is because I have been offered books tuition and fees at an ABET accredited university in my area for any engineering program. I know that there are a lot of benefits dealing with becoming a nuke though such as the reputation and the demand companies have for nukes as well as the experience. So I ask you all as current and former nukes which opportunity you believe would give the brightest future. Going full ride to a university for engineering while being a part of the reserves in some branch of the military or becoming a navy nuke?
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Demand? LMAO
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You would not be very smart passing up a full ride at school for riding subs. Get a degree and then become an officer if you really want to go into the military.
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Nuke is dying field. The demand right now is to find places for laid off workers from closed plants to land. 1 location is building a new plant. That's it. 4 more plants shutting down in next couple of years.
You got a ride for Engineering school?
Try electrical - grid stability and solar are what is going to be driving electricity in the future.
Do the degree, be in the reserves if you like.
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Go for the degree first. If you still want to be a "nuke", do it as an officer. That path will give you the widest range of things to do when you get older. Insofar as the degree goes, I would recommend EE (first) or Mechanical (second choice). If I had been smarter when I was your age, that's what I should have done.