Should I join the navy in grad school?

[John Badman]

They’re offering me that EW engineer money. Ya boy do be kinda broke right now, but I also don’t like the idea of signing a slave contract I’ll be reprimanded for if I back out later on. The good thing is that I stay continental and I’m only in a threat if someone nukes us. The idea of being relocated to a glownigger base is unappealing to me though. I don’t know how to weigh this.

 

[John Badman]

The most I’ve ever made was undergrad defense contractor internships that lasted only a few months and paid $57k. The position they’re offering me is between $150k and $200k.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

You do realize you're gonna have to talk about kiwi farms on the sf86 right? Also are you going orificer or enlisting like a moron?

 

[John Badman]

You do realize you're gonna have to talk about kiwi farms on the sf86 right? Also are you going orificer or enlisting like a moron?

Orificer, they would make me do boot too. I’m a fat computer nerd my ass is not doing that wake up at 6 am bullshit run.

 

[Moths]

Remember if you're a victim of mesithelioma you could be entitled to compensation.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

Orificer, they would make me do boot too. I’m a fat computer nerd my ass is not doing that wake up at 6 am bullshit run.

OK so if you want to actually pass OCS you can't go in and expect the military to get you in shape like they do with enlistees who are just there to push brooms and peel potatoes.

The internet is chock full of programs to get you in shape for this. Officers are typically held to higher standard than enlisted, but because Navy, it probably won't be so bad. Still, I'd cut junk food, learn to wake up early (try 5:30), run 4 times a week, lift 2-3, learn to manage your time, journal, and wean off any meds you can't take in basic.

If you're really doing EE I'd assume you'd be working on radar related shit. The Navy takes that rather seriously, but even if you're just doing power bullshit, I'd stop doing bullshit you'll have to admit to when getting your clearance done right now.

If you end up mentioning me you have to say formerly chuck's, not just sneed.

 

[John Badman]

OK so if you want to actually pass OCS you can't go in and expect the military to get you in shape like they do with enlistees who are just there to push brooms and peel potatoes.

The internet is chock full of programs to get you in shape for this. Officers are typically held to higher standard than enlisted, but because Navy, it probably won't be so bad. Still, I'd cut junk food, learn to wake up early (try 5:30), run 4 times a week, lift 2-3, learn to manage your time, journal, and wean off any meds you can't take in basic.

If you're really doing EE I'd assume you'd be working on radar related shit. The Navy takes that rather seriously, but even if you're just doing power bullshit, I'd stop doing bullshit you'll have to admit to when getting your clearance done right now.

If you end up mentioning me you have to say formerly chuck's, not just sneed.

Is it possible to find a way to work up to neuromorphic engineering? That was my whole intention of studying CS after all. To research and make cool shit, will they just lock me in a room all day with monitors or will I be allowed to cook with the old geezers.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

Officers have to get security clearances. This means you need to understand OPSEC. You just told some random fuck on kiwi farms what you studied in school. That isn't a lot of detail, but it's just one of many things you let slip, and helps build a profile on you. Shavings make a pile. With enough random pieces a puzzle becomes all but solved even if you lack most of them.

To answer you, I doubt neuromorphic stuff would be that important to the Navy. They want people to work on stuff they have or do research on pushing known understood proven things. The situation right now is such that we're putting SM-6s on super hornets so we can hang with China in the Pacific.

Also, FYI, if they stick you onto anything involving sonar or submarines at all don't fucking tell anyone, for your own sake, lol.

tl;dr you're working on what they stick you on; if you want to research that, that means a PhD program.

 

[John Badman]

Officers have to get security clearances. This means you need to understand OPSEC. You just told some random fuck on kiwi farms what you studied in school. That isn't a lot of detail, but it's just one of many things you let slip, and helps build a profile on you. Shavings make a pile. With enough random pieces a puzzle becomes all but solved even if you lack most of them.

To answer you, I doubt neuromorphic stuff would be that important to the Navy. They want people to work on stuff they have or do research on pushing known understood proven things. The situation right now is such that we're putting SM-6s on super hornets so we can hang with China in the Pacific.

Also, FYI, if they stick you onto anything involving sonar or submarines at all don't fucking tell anyone, for your own sake, lol.

tl;dr you're working on what they stick you on; if you want to research that, that means a PhD program.

I already have a security clearance from the internships. I welcome anyone to dox me without leveraging the site logs from the few times I’ve instinctually signed in without a VPN lol. If some autist can actually find my academic papers I’ll applaud them and send them some money as a bounty.

They’ve offered to stick me on nuclear subs a few times beforehand from unsolicited phone calls and I said fuck off.

Maybe I should ask space force if they have any interest instead? They seem like they’d be far out enough to take my ideas on brain computers and deep space probes.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Is it possible to find a way to work up to neuromorphic engineering? That was my whole intention of studying CS after all. To research and make cool shit, will they just lock me in a room all day with monitors or will I be allowed to cook with the old geezers.

This is a question for your recruiter. However, if you want to be a military researcher, you will need a PhD.

It really all depends on what you want in terms of a career. Figure that out first. Military jobs tend to be fixed and mission-focused. If you are not hired as a researcher, you will not do any research.

 

[John Badman]

This is a question for your recruiter. However, if you want to be a military researcher, you will need a PhD.

It really all depends on what you want in terms of a career. Figure that out first. Military jobs tend to be fixed and mission-focused. If you are not hired as a researcher, you will not do any research.

Thanks friend, I’ll bring that up next time I talk with them.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

I already have a security clearance from the internships.

Good.

I welcome anyone to dox me without leveraging the site logs from the few times I’ve instinctually signed in without a VPN lol. If some autist can actually find my academic papers I’ll applaud them and send them some money as a bounty.

FAMOUS last words, my dude.

They’ve offered to stick me on nuclear subs a few times beforehand from unsolicited phone calls and I said fuck off.

Nukes are not happy people, you probably did the right thing.

Maybe I should ask space force if they have any interest instead? They seem like they’d be far out enough to take my ideas on brain computers and deep space probes.

Those decisions are up to contractors and senior officers. You would have to be a lifer, or some PhD haver working for a contractor, to do that.

 

[John Badman]

Those decisions are up to contractors and senior officers. You would have to be a lifer, or some PhD haver working for a contractor, to do that.

The last project I got stuck on was some gay ass finite element analysis for jets. I ended up regretting it like 4 months in, I get kinda cranky if I can’t work and think about things I’m naturally guided to. I ended up enjoy the experience overall but doing the same calculations day in and day out for something I had no emotional attachment to got weary. That’s probably the biggest trap I’d be concerned about if I wouldn’t be allowed to move about freely.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Thanks friend, I’ll bring that up next time I talk with them.

It's not uncommon for someone to get a PhD in something that is of interest to the US military or government, and then get an offer to work for them. The military employs a ton of researchers at its various research centers. However, don't expect to make good money, don't complain when they station you somewhere that sucks, and do expect these positions to be competitive because there are not that many of them (compared to positions in academic institutions or private companies). Your recruiter should know more or, at the very least, be able to point you in the right direction.

You will also be at the whims of military leadership and Congressional funding, which is not always fun.

If you have any questions about academia, I can (sort of) help you there.

Nukes are not happy people, you probably did the right thing.

I have known two men who served on nuclear submarines and both of them loved it.

 

[Moths]

>trusting recruiters
Lol, lmao. Their entire job is to lie through their nigger teeth to sign that dotted line for that quota

>submarines
Sure if you like being on a smelly boat underwater with 3ft of space with a bunch of sweaty men you homo

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

It's not uncommon for someone to get a PhD in something that is of interest to the US military or government, and then get an offer to work for them. The military employs a ton of researchers at its various research centers. However, don't expect to make good money, don't complain when they station you somewhere that sucks, and do expect these positions to be competitive because there are not that many of them (compared to positions in academic institutions or private companies). Your recruiter should know more or, at the very least, be able to point you in the right direction.

You will also be at the whims of military leadership and Congressional funding, which is not always fun.

If you have any questions about academia, I can (sort of) help you there.

I have known two men who served on nuclear submarines and both of them loved it.

Navy Nukes aren't just "people on a nuclear submarine", I mean Navy Nukes, the people who learned physics through a firehose and had to do watch on the reactor and shit.

 

[Hey Johnny Bravo]

Navy Nukes aren't just "people on a nuclear submarine", I mean Navy Nukes, the people who learned physics through a firehose and had to do watch on the reactor and shit.

I see. Thank you for clarifying. One guy I knew was an intelligence officer during the Cold War who enciphered/deciphered signals. The other was younger and active duty, so he couldn't talk about his work, but I think he worked on radars and detection equipment. So, different work.

 

[Sneed's Feed n Seed]

I see. Thank you for clarifying. One guy I knew was an intelligence officer during the Cold War who enciphered/deciphered signals. The other was younger and active duty, so he couldn't talk about his work, but I think he worked on radars and detection equipment. So, different work.

Oh yeah, there's a lot of good work to be had on a sub and they try to make up for being stuck in a tube as much as they can.
There's also probably some degree of if you're really cut out for it or not. Not everyone is.

The thought of commanding one is great, but the process to get there does not seem nearly as great.