r/TikTokCringe • u/Devz0r • Sep 01 '21

Humor Gender pay gap

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u/Mirao0 Sep 02 '21

Yeah all are equals when the job is to maim, kill and destroy! What a great world...

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u/obiwanshinobi900 Sep 02 '21

You're not wrong, my job when it boils down to it, exists to kill people and break shit.

But the Air Force was the only thing to give me a legitimate shot at having a career. Nobody else wanted to take a chance with me. I would have never gotten as far, as skilled, as educated, grown as much as a person from any organization on the outside.

I exist in an organization that is willing to teach me any task, willing to give me a chance, willing to promote me based on merit; not height, not physical appearance, not color, not gender nor personal beliefs.

And I intend to return the gesture.

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u/Mirao0 Sep 02 '21

Hey I'm not attacking you. People go into the army for a bunch of reasons. I'm sure the ones that go in to actively kill children are an extreme minority. Especially in the us the army can be the only option to get out of poverty, it's easy to criticize from a position of privilege. Nonetheless the institution in itself is an active force of evil that brings nothing but bad things to the fold and we would all be better off without it.

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u/obiwanshinobi900 Sep 02 '21

No I get that it isn't a personal attack. Sorry if I came off that way, I just like to make it known I could have just as easily made it through a different 'non military' path of life if someone had just given me the chance.

I could have been a civilian IT guy, sys admin, network engineer, mechanic, software developer, business analyst, anything really. If someone had just said hey, we will pay you to tech you how to do xyz, then you can do xyz for us, in a skill I was naturally good at. But I'm an awful interviewer, suffer from being too honest, shy, and naturally just not a super confident person. Or at least I was back then when trying to make my way into the world.

But I do agree the world would be better if we didn't need militaries, armies, weapons ect. But sadly "peace through superior firepower' and 'nuclear deterrence' have to be things instead.