• nbdjd@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    I’m so envious. That’s what I wanted to do when joining the Navy. The paper said “advanced electronics computer field” and I ended up as an Electronics Technician. What a waste. The cost of ignorance is high. I didn’t have a mentor or father to guide me in such things. Now I’m in my late 30s studying AWS and tryin’ to make a change :-\

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      9 months ago

      Hey, you are doing it, bud. Forgive your younger self. It needs love too.

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        9 months ago

        I appreciate you. I need to remember that I did the best I could at that moment and time. Hindsight and “what could’ve been “ can be such a bummer and debilitating.

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      9 months ago

      I went in thinking “if I hate it, I stick it out 4 years then get out and go to school”. But it just happened to work out well.