I’m 17m. Lot of bad stuff happened last year. Lost my dad and had already lost my mom a couple years back. I made a post here a few months ago actually detailing my situation and asking for advice. I received so much amazing advice and started working really hard to apply the lessons, but life doesn’t always work out how we want it to. I ended up getting really sick with you know what and then my sister and I got kicked out of her house so I had to use all my savings to help us find a new place. During this struggle I quit community college because I was juggling too many things at once and was so stressed out to made me depressed. Now I’m back here, with nothing ahead of me and no help at all. I want to go to college. I want to learn and get a good degree. But I’m poor and don’t want to go into huge debt. I’ve heard that the financial benefits of just the minimum years in the military is really good. Is this true? I’m considering joining for four years and then quitting to go to college with whatever money I earn during my enlistment. How well would this plan work? I see my two options as this: go to college and take on lifelong debt. Or join the military, thus signing away four years of my life, and then start my adult life with actual financial independence and good life experience.
What advice would you give me in my situation?
Submitted August 06, 2022 at 09:49AM by MostlikelynotJ https://ift.tt/IHzE4CS
