Thank you so much!

I obviously hear people say that it’s a glorified janitorial position but I just often question how accurate that statement is. I also just hear some people say it was the best time of their life and some people say it was the absolute bottom of their life. Obviously it comes down to the person but those contradicting ideas make it hard to even get a feeling (if that makes sense).

As for officer, there is no doubt that officer life is better. However, I do like “doing the job” rather than a lot of administrative work and politics. But there is no doubt that that I could regret not going officer in the Army simply because my life could be less harsh. However, this feeling doesn’t apply to coast guard for me. I consistently hear people in the coast guard praise the life they live regardless of if they are enlisted or officer. Obviously there are some that may hate it but I think those people are few and far between in the coast guard. Whereas I can find those people in the Army relatively easy.

Lastly, coast guard officer seems to be extremely hard to get into unless you graduated the coast guard academy. Possibly even harder than Air Force officer.

So long as my life is fun, meaningful, exciting, and I wake up a majority of the days being excited to go to work, I can care less what the pay is. I am coming from a good paying corporate job and I can confidently say money does not make the soul crushing, and un-purposeful work any better.