Anonymous
9/27/2025, 10:12:26 AM
No.16798082
>>16796761
>ChemE
>Oil and gas as a backup plan
Fuck, what kind of friends do you have to fall back into true blue process engineering without having to fight for it?
>>16797082
Employers don't give the smallest fuck about military experience, even if it's relevant. They basically look at it, at best, as an internship or bullshit make work job, unless you're interviewing with another veteran. I say this as a former CBRN who is now a chemist with almost a decade of work experience after getting a degree. Even upselling that experience to civilians as an EHS head, they still will assume (accurately?) you spent your time in the army jerking off in humvees and getting drunk.
>So what kind of STEM fag should I become?
Look at different STEM careers, or even gray collar type work around you. Actually research a few job postings and the types of work those do. Rank the listings in terms of most interesting to least. Then take college classes closer to the ones you like. Don't worry about getting the "exact" right degree; in the workplace you'll be expected to learn on the job anyway.
The one exception is medical technician work; things like sonography, or nuclear med, or viral medical lab work will require specific certifications, and at hospitals, those certs are the only thing they care about.
>ChemE
>Oil and gas as a backup plan
Fuck, what kind of friends do you have to fall back into true blue process engineering without having to fight for it?
>>16797082
Employers don't give the smallest fuck about military experience, even if it's relevant. They basically look at it, at best, as an internship or bullshit make work job, unless you're interviewing with another veteran. I say this as a former CBRN who is now a chemist with almost a decade of work experience after getting a degree. Even upselling that experience to civilians as an EHS head, they still will assume (accurately?) you spent your time in the army jerking off in humvees and getting drunk.
>So what kind of STEM fag should I become?
Look at different STEM careers, or even gray collar type work around you. Actually research a few job postings and the types of work those do. Rank the listings in terms of most interesting to least. Then take college classes closer to the ones you like. Don't worry about getting the "exact" right degree; in the workplace you'll be expected to learn on the job anyway.
The one exception is medical technician work; things like sonography, or nuclear med, or viral medical lab work will require specific certifications, and at hospitals, those certs are the only thing they care about.