Wow, a whole pizza, and all you had to do was get harassed for a few hours and pretend to be interested. I'll stick with my job, thanks.
Actually she was occupied talking to other people who were DEP'd in. So basically I got to eat free pizza and hang out with my friends. I tend to get the feeling that people think there is some sort of evil associated with recruiters. They are humans and the ones I've met haven't been overly aggressive or anything in their recruiting. God forbid people go out and be friendly to them or what not.
Exactly. You get the pizza, yet there's still no such thing as a free lunch.
Read above it was in all definitions a free lunch. When the Army recruiter took us to dinner it was much the same way. We got free food and to talk with the recruiter + friends. The recruiter was actually teaching us tricks to pick up women using the waitress as an example, it was highly amusing. At the end of dinner before we left he had us write down our basic info for him so that he could justify paying for dinner. (Basic info being SSN, DOB, phone #). I also wanted to mention that I don't think I've ever been called by a recruiter after giving them my information. However, I have gotten an assload of mail from the Marine Corps and their local recruiter called me once over the summer inquiring about my future plans. A simple 'college' was all it took and we said our good byes and that was that.
I don't think Zend ever forces any of their customers to risk their lives.
Zorm, I'm not saying the Army is a rip off or anything, but you clearly need to realize that it's not a suitable lifestyle for everyone. I, for one, dropped out of the Navy's DEP program for Nuclear Engineering because of the forced lifestyle that I would be living for four years of my life.
I wasn't saying that its for everyone or trying to imply that everyone should be in the military. But it sort of bugs me when people react to the mere thought of talking to a recruiter or such. You tend to get funny looks if you are talking to a recruiter or what not(in a negative way) and it really shouldn't be that way. One of the recruiter here mentioned that he liked my school because he only got called a baby killer once a week at it vs a few times a day at the other schools around here. Anyhow I'm just doing my part because they tend to be nice people and don't really deserve a lot of the treatment that they get.
Out of curiosity, how'd you manage to get yourself DEP'd in without realizing what the lifestyle would be like? Any aspect of navy life that you didn't like or just the life in general? Of more interest is that 4 years really isn't that bad, doing Army ROTC I'll have to serve 8 years after I finish college. Of course it can be all reserve or mixed between active/reserve.
