I blame my short clavicles.
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Nuclear Surface Warfare Officer. Headed to nuclear power school, not just going in blind to the reactor and quoting Plato.
Man, I know the whole idea of an Ivy sounds nice, but I really am glad I did not go. I don’t think it would have been a good fit at all, I’d have shown up on that first day wearing cowboy boots and spitting Copenhagen, they would of sent me back haha
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Yeah, it doesn’t matter what degree you have to go through the Navy nuke officer pipeline, as long as you have one. You do need some decent math skills, but nothing earth-shattering. As long as you can handle exponents, logs, algebra, trig and a little bit of low level calculus you’ll be fine, but nuke school spoon feeds it to you, so you can go in without having had a lot of classes and still make it through if you have a good head for math. I did that for 11 years, enlisted side though, tours on 2 different carriers and 4 years as a prototype instructor. The nuclear job market on the outside is gradually shrinking though, unless you want to go overseas.
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Meh, we have one of the big four consulting firms giving us humanities grads to run millions of dollars of IT work because creative thinking is mostest important of all.
As you can imagine, things are going great. I only hope karma is a thing and one of these partners needs heart surgery and the hospital pulls out a arts history major and tells them it will be okay because creativity is more important than expertise.
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Squatting with a belt on again felt weird.
My STEM side of things is fairly decent, I’m not the best by any means but I have had some pretty decent education going that way. Annapolis forces even the Political Science folks to cut their teeth on EE and thermodynamics, which I hated at the time but and glad for now. Still, At my Naval Reactors interview, the admiral described me as “a dumb rock,” so that’s promising.
Not really looking to work in the nuke field outside of the navy, if I got out I’d more than likely go to law school and try my luck that way. although, a cool job overseas could be enticing.
I had a buddy in college at Oregon State, he was active duty going to college - getting paid and having his tuition paid. He ended up on a nuke sub, went on to get a Masters in EE, and has done very well.
He was the richest fuck in college, making about $25K as a full time student paying no tuition.
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The money is good, I have a couple friends who went to the UAE to teach them how to run reactors, and they’re making in the high 200K’s. I’m making less than that, but still decent money working at a stateside nuclear plant.
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believe your from Kansas aren’t you? You ever hear of a town called Russel
I’m proud of myself. Haven’t gone off on anyone as of late.
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I’ve heard of it, but had to look up where it was. It’s more north central KS, a little closer to @Frank_C 's neck of the woods than mine. I’m not from here, only been here 5 years, so don’t have the decades of background a native would.
Oh ok I just asked because my sister lives there
It’s a small town just off I-70. I’m down in south central Kansas.
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Yep you are correct sir
I had to ban myself for two days to keep from it. 
Probably wasn’t long enough. I may need extend my time out.
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My son was wearing one of my hats (he’s 3), and I took him out to the grocery store with me. We made it through 3 aisles before I realized it was my Budweiser hat.
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No worries! In Virginia that just means he’s a Dale Jr fan.
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Oh thats nothing to be embarrassed by. My oldest at 3 picked up a certain explicit phrase he by chance had overheard me say . He used it when a strange women said " well are you not the cutest little boy ?"
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I confess that it’s getting harder and harder to not call out people for saying a program that never ran didn’t work.
5/3/1, Deep Water, WS4SB, etc, it always happens. Guys tweak it to the point it doesn’t work, then get upset it didn’t work.
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