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Originally Posted by Wraith601
I'll actually be all right money wise as I'm single and have no children and my Bachelors Degree will automatically "promote" me to E-4, which is about a $400 a month pay raise plus I'm hoping for jump pay and I should a decent bonus but I'm not in it for the money, I'm pretty sure I can find a higher paying job elsewhere, but this is what I think I should be doing in life.
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I'm 18 and I don't plan on having any kids so money's not really an issue for me these days, and I dont plan on having a Military career as such, I'll just ride out a 4 year term and then move on, hoping to go to university and move into federal law enforcement. Mainly doing the Reserves thing for discipline, fitness and maybe the opportunity to volunteer for a peacekeeping mission or something along those lines (if one ever comes up that requires whatever skills I'll possess). And I can assure you, in Australia the Military is pretty far from most people's minds, most of their large bases are located in remote areas far away from the cities (not a good idea in my opinion, I think they're planning to change this) and not many people seem to like the idea of service (they assume it automatically means you'll be sent to Iraq and die, even though we havent lost a soldier in combat there). Couple this with payrates that are pretty uncompetetive with civilian jobs (we're going rather well economically for now) and you have a largely poor opinion of the ADF as a career.