My decision to join the Navy

So to begin this blog let me rewind a chapter. Four years ago I started working for a company named AIG. most of you should know who this is from all the dramatic media about it..ie using the taxpayers money and going on lavish resorts in CA, the millions of $'s in bailout money. I started as an office assistant when i worked there and a year later i got promoted to a Business representative. in late march i was laid off with a severence, and thought about what i would do next. My ex-boyfriend suggested that I should think about the navy. now if anyone know's me, the military never crossed my mind, ever!, but after hearing such good things about the navy, as far as traveling the world, education benefits etc, i thought now would be the best time for me to give it a go. a month after my layoff i called a navy recruiter, set up a time to meet and took the pre-qualification test. i passed that, and later had to take the navy entrance test, best known as the ASVAB. i studied for two weeks and passed that. Next i went to MEPS where i had to take a physical and choose my job. i prayed through each step i had to take, because in my opinion none were easy. my recruiter told me there's a lot of people who fail or get disqualified before they even get to meps, being that the entrance exam isn't that easy. the job i really wanted was a Hospital corpsman. in the end i did qualify for that job, but in fear of getting deployed to iraq i turned it down, and enlisted in Adminstrative support. I am super excited about all the great opportunities the navy can offer me, nonetheless i'm looking forward to where i will be stationed, all the new friends i will me, and dreading bootcamp. so i leave off in mid-january for bootcamp, but my mind is still thinking on where i would love to be stationed at. my recruiter told me that during bootcamp they give us a paper where we get to write down 3 of our dream locations & out of those three they "normally" choose one. so if you had to choose between any of these locations, and you had to live there for 4years...where would you want to go? (Japan, Italy, Spain, California, Florida, Cuba, Hawaii, Singapore, Bihrain, Greece).


The moral:
When one door closes, another one is there to open. in times like this w/the recession its easy to lose hope, and to lose focus on your goals. no matter what life brings, keep going, keep striving, and in time success will be closer than you think.