........I don't want to live to work. I want to work to live. Am I being unreasonable here?
nope, you're fine, most likely you shoulda stayed a MC, maybe you can go back or try for it on the civilian side,...
I think success is relative. Some people want to shoot magnums and drive Benz's and some people want to use their time in the Navy simply as a stepping stone towards other things. I don't think I have the moral authority to judge who's right and who's wrong.
Clearly, society frowns upon the weak willed quitter but, if you force someone who's 5 feet tall play in the NBA and he wants to quit because he's miserable and constantly getting dumpstered on, it's kind of hard to blame the guy. I mean, maybe he can put forth super-human effort and work on his assists or dribbling skills to make up for his deficits, but that's not exactly realistic.
It's a hyperbolic metaphor, but all I'm trying to say is that it's also not realistic for me to work harder and keep on chugging along without being really stressed out and miserable and, to me, that's not worth it even if I can get through the pipeline and collect the fat bonuses. See, I thought 60 hour work weeks were rough--try 84. Holy crap. Meanwhile, my friends who failed out of NNPTC work ~40 hours a week............
if you still want to be a mass communications specialist you need better metaphors,....
that 5 foot NBA player you held up as an example is looking at a
minimum salary which is 10X greater than the USA average or median salary,...
10X greater,...
NBA Minimum Annual Salary Scale (it's a few years out of date, yet consistent with contemporary comparisons)
YOS 2011-2012 2012-2013 2013-2014 2014-2015 2015-2016 2016-2017 2017-2018 2018-2019 2019-2020 2020-2021
0 $473,604 $473,604 $490,180 $507,336 $525,093 $543,471 $562,493 $582,180 $602,557 $623,646
1 $762,195 $762,195 $788,872 $816,482 $845,059 $874,636 $905,249 $936,932 $969,725 $1,003,665
2 $854,389 $854,389 $884,293 $915,243 $947,276 $980,431 $1,014,746 $1,050,262 $1,087,021 $1,125,067
3 $885,120 $885,120 $916,099 $948,163 $981,348 $1,015,696 $1,051,245 $1,088,038 $1,126,120 $1,165,534
4 $915,852 $915,852 $947,907 $981,084 $1,015,421 $1,050,961 $1,087,745 $1,125,816 $1,165,220 $1,206,002
5 $992,680 $992,680 $1,027,424 $1,063,384 $1,100,602 $1,139,123 $1,178,992 $1,220,257 $1,262,966 $1,307,170
6 $1,069,509 $1,069,509 $1,106,942 $1,145,685 $1,185,784 $1,227,286 $1,270,241 $1,314,700 $1,360,714 $1,408,339
7 $1,146,337 $1,146,337 $1,186,459 $1,227,985 $1,270,964 $1,315,448 $1,361,489 $1,409,141 $1,458,461 $1,509,507
8 $1,223,166 $1,223,166 $1,265,977 $1,310,286 $1,356,146 $1,403,611 $1,452,738 $1,503,583 $1,556,209 $1,610,676
9 $1,229,255 $1,229,255 $1,272,279 $1,316,809 $1,362,897 $1,410,598 $1,459,969 $1,511,068 $1,563,956 $1,618,694
10+ $1,352,181 $1,352,181 $1,399,507 $1,448,490 $1,499,187 $1,551,659 $1,605,967 $1,662,176 $1,720,352 $1,780,564
the 5 foot player may garner deep respect for succeeding at what he strives to do, but he will never garner pity from the plight of only earning 10X what anybody else earns in spite of all his hard work,...
because A LOT of people work very hard just to earn that average/median wage, and ofttimes earn a lot less than that,...
so, if you want to make it good as a MC you will have to work harder, because your metaphors employed here on this forum do not represent that you have a natural, easily implemented proclivity to excel at mass communications either,...
you may be cutout for it, but you are still going to have to work at it,...
although you do have a knack for twisting a conversation from facts and assessments to feelings and hyperbole,...
perchance televangelism, politics or infomercial pitchman?!?!?!?
PS - no one working at anything gets "forced", those days ended in 1865 hereabouts, no one forces the 5' NBA player and no one is forcing you, you volunteered, after seeking input for the pros and cons and after receiving objective, none candy coated feedback, you volunteered,...
and then you signed a contract,...
here's your metaphor:
you were all signed up for a Chevy Spark, but then somebody showed you the Z06,...
but you are not stupid, you went and asked about the pros and cons of owning a Z06,...
then you got the feedback, the highs and the lows, the rush and the drudgery,...
and then you had Ally Financial tear up that Chevy Spark contract and sign you up for the Z06,...
and the loan officer at Ally was only too happy to oblige,...
and now you have buyer's remorse, and you want out of that contract,...
and maybe Ally will let you out, I dunno,...
but perhaps you could read this one time and remember it,....
later in life, after you grow up, and you are selling your first home as a prerequisite to taking that vaunted anchor man's job in the big media market out on the coast,...
and then,....you get that phone call from the real estate agent that your prospective home buyer is backing out of the sale, everything is off,...
you're gonna have to dig deeper in your pocket to make the move for a host of reasons, mostly because the erstwhile home buyer is backing out of the contract,...
remember that the erstwhile home buyer may have come to the conclusion (like you are today) that they are that 5 foot point guard,...
for the buyer, completing the commitment to buy your house and meet those mortgage payments is akin to struggling in the NBA as a 5' point guard,...
the buyer wants to live in a home, not live for a house,...
be as kind, understanding, generous and magnanimous to that erstwhile house buyer as you expect the Navy to be to you today,...
because, just as you will have to personally suck it up due to that erstwhile home buyer tomorrow, the Navy is gonna have to suck it up for you today,...
that's why they have contracts,...
that's why they have karma,...
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