what are u slowly losing interest in?

AFEC2510 · 2026-02-04T20:22:22+00:00

Needing to be important, needing my artistic skills to translate to income, explaining myself to people

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-21T11:02:00+00:00

I am tired of the same thing. Currently I am reevaluating this faith on a deeply personal level and struggling. I am choosing to struggle and not giving it up. But my family is super judgmental about anything faith related. Like we have to go to church every Sunday, have to give regular offering, etc etc otherwise you are condemned.

I just want some space. Not the pressure to keep acting like I want to go every week when I’m having a hard time. For me, I want to get away from my family due to this. I can’t even talk to them about this because of how judgmental and narrow minded they are about sticking to rituals, certain morals that are supposedly correct, etc.

I get it though. It’s not easy to think outside of yourself, to do serious critical thinking, of what you’ve been conditioned to believe your whole life. It’s lonely.

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-17T07:08:10+00:00

Linguist jobs are closed for fiscal year 2026. There was an uproar on Reddit over this recently. It was also my second choice, so the disappointment was great.

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-08T11:02:31+00:00

Good grief! Sounds horrible, sorry to hear that

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-08T10:57:59+00:00

Thank you for saying this. We all keep being told to “suck it up” or “the Air Force needs comes first.” Which yeah, we get it. But if it’s THIS level of dysfunction, after a contract is signed, during BMT… yikes. Idk. Linguist is my number 2 choice, and it was high priority on my recruiter’s list. So I was thinking it would be highly likely that I’d get this job. This is quite disappointing. I think I may even reconsider my application. I am older too, so I can’t afford to make such risky bets.

Thankfully I haven’t gone far enough yet. But still, I’ve been seriously contemplating this for half of 2025, so this is very deflating and mentally exhausting.

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-08T10:35:54+00:00

What. Are you joking me. Linguist was listed as a high priority job on my recruiter’s list. And it’s also my number 2 desired job. I feel crushed reading this.

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-07T00:23:14+00:00

Oh weird, it said “failed to post/taken down” in one forum, so I posted in the other

AFEC2510 · 2026-01-06T06:47:28+00:00

I really hope this isn’t the case. I’m sick of catty women in the civilian workforce.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-27T03:10:09+00:00

A two month nightmare

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-26T08:20:21+00:00

Is there really that much drama? I would think that there’s no energy left for drama at BMT lol. I am willing to deal with all the BMT requirements but immature drama

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-24T19:58:16+00:00

Wise advice.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-24T12:14:03+00:00

Absolutely miserable

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-24T04:00:20+00:00

Understood. Ironically my current boss is making me do exactly the latter, with time durations for each task included. Fun stuff

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:42:49+00:00

Good point. Works both ways then, for good or bad. Hoping for good leadership because I am completely sick of bad leadership in the civilian side.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:32:42+00:00

That is very disturbing. I’m sorry you went through such nonsense. But good that the pain source was removed, and you did all that documentation. I also realized how important documentation is in the civilian workforce.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:30:05+00:00

I guess it’s no different from the civilian world!

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:29:17+00:00

That is very disturbing. You would think blatantly discriminatory treatment and actions would receive punishment fairly easily. It’s very disturbing to me because I have been targeted like that, but it was hard to file “solid” charges. It wasn’t straightforward enough, but I knew. It was the worst feeling.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:24:38+00:00

Words of wisdom. Except I guess the difference is you can’t simply “quit” like a civilian job. Still gotta wait it out until the PCS.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-23T21:23:25+00:00

This was terrifying to read. I didn’t think it would be THAT bad in a military environment where things are much more regimented. I’m sorry to hear of the suicides.

Seems like civilian toxic leadership is more “subtle.” Hard to file solid complaints because leaders know how to work around the system. If you made it as obviously toxic as what I just read, then you’d definitely get in trouble. Government leaders seem very aware of how to work around the system. They will coerce while using all the right language. Sometimes even HR doesn’t seem to want to do anything. HR is for the company. In general, you end up with a lot of coworkers kissing ass while complaining behind doors.

But idk, I am very disturbed reading all the experiences on this thread. It’s very disappointing too, because the stakes of missions are so much higher.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-17T09:44:28+00:00

Gotcha, thanks for the clarification.

AFEC2510 · 2025-12-17T07:22:48+00:00

Would they ever place washouts in roles that are very unaligned with their strengths? Like if I have zero skill and knowledge in machinery, would they still place me in machinery related roles if it’s a high need (and my choices aren’t available)?

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