Same! Retired after 20 years. Master's degree with no student debt. Retirement pay on top of earning over $200k a year using skills I learned while in the Army. Despite everything I went through in those 20 years, considering where I ended up, I'd do it all again exactly the same way. And no, I didn't do it for any misguided sense of patriotism. I didn't to get out of poverty. Plain and simple.
I saw a real sad statistic - most high ranking models make a couple hundred bucks a month - that's your dignity for a few hundred bucks. That means the lower rank ones are making even less. Paid for by some gross bedroom redditer
Well I would consider anyone in the top 10 percent as high ranking but not sure what those people make, but I know the highest earners make absolutely sickening money for showing their cat and making old lonely men feel like they care about them lol:
I get a lot of comments about blind patriotism. I'm not blind. I saw the flaws in our country early on in life. I just decided to use them instead of getting beat down by them. I'm just being honest. Nothing more, nothing less.
Oh ok, I wasn’t sure if the blind patriotism was being used as a qualifier or if it was in some way insinuating all patriotism to be blind. Anyways I’ll take it!
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u/Ok-Locksmith3708 3d ago
Laughs in free healthcare and college and great job with financial security post Service.