In the military, if you don’t make promotion lists at certain junctures in your career, you’re done. Whether or not you make said list depends on your boss’s completely subjective assessment of your performance. My boss was a toxic diversity hire and I knew from the day he took command that it was going to be a rough time for the unit so getting a pair of negative evals from him was kind of like having Paul Ryan tell you that you’re a failure.
I thought I’d be more angry or sad or something but truth be told I’m mostly just relieved. I didn’t want to fight for this new president or this congress and I don’t want to watch the organization I’ve devoted tens of thousands of hours of my life to slowly fall apart over the next decade and now I won’t have to.
So I guess I’ll just take my four deployments worth of combat experience, go back home, play with my kids and wait... for something.
I've made a good living doing a Pest Control Biz. You just need a Certified Pesticide Applicators License and a Certified Pesticide Operators License. With those two you can go into biz for yourself and make some good money. I specialize in getting rid of Mosquitoes and "noseeums" and putting a low cost barrier spray around the house in the Spring and Fall. Once you get around 50+ customers they begin telling their friends and it starts growing exponentially from there.
Everybody loves being outside with no mosquitoes or cutting your lawn without being swarmed by a bunch of damned gnats and whatever.
Excellent! Such good advice!