[nidex]

So today I planned on going with Nothing to the Navy recruiter. Wrong, grandma is in the hospital and I have to go see her 45 mins away.

Then, I get 2 job interview calls. One with Cingular, saying I was one of the few out of hundreds chosen for a face to face interview for this position I applied to not too long ago, and it's professional business attire and blah blah. So I'm like cool, something to do for a while. I agree to an interview on Thursday. Then they tell me where I have to go. Bloomington, Minnesota. Okay, 5 hour drive. No biggie.

Then I get another call, and I have another interview at a marketing firm in downtown Chicago on Friday. Same professional business attire and shit like that, good money.

Tomorrow I probably have to go back and see my grandma. My schedule just went from nothing to filled in like 2 hours. :\

[gB dAvId x]

i don't know about working for cingular as long as its not selling phones cause of course your whole paycheck is selling their service, so its pretty much commision, but if its not that then good luck on both your interviews, also, is this changing your mind on joining the navy?

[nidex]

No it's not changing my mind on joining, I just have alot of stuff going on right now. And it wouldn't be selling phones, I'd be working at the corporate headquarters doing something. Honestly I forgot what I applied for, because I applied for so many damn jobs on Monster.

[gB dAvId x]

I kinda did the same thiing, i've been applying like crazy through craigslist and through my local community college website, i finally got a job though, start my first day tomorrow.

[randomtask]

Wow, I thought you really meant a brick fell onto your head from reading the title :P

[mistawiskas]

Feast or famine.....it's the way of the world.

[Miller]

you should just join a trade pays pretty good

[nidex]

God damn. They weren't kidding about this 10,000 lakes shit. I'm trying to find this place scrolling through on Mapquest and every time I push a button there's a new lake. Even right in the middle of the city. Weird

[Goofus Maximus]

Good luck! Also, I'm glad that you weren't actually literally hit on the head with an actual brick, as I thought when I read the thread title here!

[hans5849]

just go to the marines

[Miller]

just get into a trade, 30$ an hour after 5 years. free training, and for the most part you dont have to get shot at. and once your a jouneyman you can work anywhere in the states, canada and peru and not have to worry about finding a job

[mistawiskas]

Originally Posted by hans5849

just go to the marines

[Nothing.]

Originally Posted by Miller

just get into a trade, 30$ an hour after 5 years. free training, and for the most part you dont have to get shot at. and once your a jouneyman you can work anywhere in the states, canada and peru and not have to worry about finding a job

You can get your journeyman in the navy booya.

[Miller]

umm i think its a little different there cheif

[Nothing.]

Originally Posted by Miller

umm i think its a little different there cheif

They are different. But, still a very nice qualification to have. I bet if I had a Mechanical Journeyman, I would get the job faster than most people who worked in the field for like 5 years.

Nautical Journeyman.
Mechanical Journeyman.
Aviation Journeyman.
Seaman Subfarer Journeyman.

[Miller]

Originally Posted by Nothing.

They are different. But, still a very nice qualification to have. I bet if I had a Mechanical Journeyman, I would get the job faster than most people who worked in the field for like 5 years.

Nautical Journeyman.
Mechanical Journeyman.
Aviation Journeyman.
Seaman Subfarer Journeyman.

no you wouldnt, you'd start as a pre apprentace 9$ an hour. sounds like the recruiter is blowing a little smoke up your ass. suprise suprise

[hans5849]

i found out today that if i take tactical school i can get a $360000 reenlistment bonus if i enlist for 6.

[Jackalope]

three hundred and sixty thousand? some ones lyin or you put too many zeros...

[log1c]

Originally Posted by hans5849

i found out today that if i take tactical school i can get a $360000 reenlistment bonus if i enlist for 6.

There's no way they are going to give you 15 years enlistment salary as a bonus.

[Miller]

hey remember your ol' buddy miller, he could use 20 grand!!!!!!

[Nothing.]

actually, they are getting in to the 6 figures for re-enlistment.

No, Miller, I would be a journeyman when I get out of the Navy. I work for it during the Navy.
No ones blowing smoke up my ass. Maybe you should get some facts before posting bullshit.

[Miller]

just because you have the title of navy "journeyman" doesnt mean you can go into any trade you wish. a electrician journeyman differes from a steamfiters journeyman, differes from a carpenders journeymanm differs from a navy journeyman, it may help your skip a few years off your apprentacship but no way in hell our are going to be able to pick any trade you want right out of the navy. get your facts strait, ive been to more thn enough trade meeting to know what im talking about, you hear what the guy trying to get you in the navy tells you. june 22nd, 3300 S. 103rd Street go attend a meeting then come back here and try and tell me whats up. again, our just getting smoke blown up our ass.

[mistawiskas]

Originally Posted by Miller

just because you have the title of navy "journeyman" doesnt mean you can go into any trade you wish. a electrician journeyman differes from a steamfiters journeyman, differes from a carpenders journeymanm differs from a navy journeyman, it may help your skip a few years off your apprentacship but no way in hell our are going to be able to pick any trade you want right out of the navy. get your facts strait, ive been to more thn enough trade meeting to know what im talking about, you hear what the guy trying to get you in the navy tells you. june 22nd, 3300 S. 103rd Street go attend a meeting then come back here and try and tell me whats up. again, our just getting smoke blown up our ass.

It's true. The only military journeymanship that is anywhere similar to civy journeymanship would probably be 'electrician". Everything else, the technology is too much of a difference, and codes are nothing alike.
You have to remember that the recruiter does get a 'production' bonus for surpassing a set quota of recruitees. So there is a propensity to exagerate and outright lie to prospects when coming close to reaching the number required to recieve incentives. My brother was a Navy recruiter for 6 years. He finally got fed up with the numbers game and went back into carrier duty and then into retirement after 23 years of service.