GallantJul 08, 2014Jul 08, 2014 at 02:33 PM
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Just realized I never really did this, either.
I am Mike. Male, clearly, for anyone who's heard me in TS. Currently, I am 25.
By 'profession', I'm a sailor - spent 4 years in the US Navy as a glorified diesel mechanic (EN2 at time of separation), and I'm working on my Third Engineer's Certificate so that I can sail privately and progress towards my seven-year goal of Captaincy, 50 tonnage, inland and coastal waters, and though I likely won't have the seatime for it by then I can at least get knowledge enough to put me in the game.
I am likewise working on my Mechanical Engineering bachelors, though lately I've been considering changing to Electrical Engineering. A few years ago when I left the service, I realized that I'd found something I loved doing, that I was good at, and that realization alone, I think, is a very rare gift in this sort of a world where most people don't or haven't realized what they want to do with the rest of their lives. However, I plan on finishing college (for free, lol) before starting down the maritime path full-time.
My tipping point for leaving the Navy was that if I were going to be working ~20 hours a day, and on-call for the next 4, I'd better damnedable well be paid overtime. That and I thought a lot of my bosses were stupid and didn't like it very much when Congress refused to pay us for, what was it, 2 months? The short answer was that I liked sailing, loved the Pacific to death, but I met more happy, content, and even compassionate people overseas than I'd ever seen in America. Now that I'm back here, the first thing I want to do is set foot on a boat and sail the fuck in the other direction.
No offense to any present, of course, but it's certainly true that we Americans are a surly, entitled bunch sometimes.
As a gamer, I've been role playing since thirteen, both on and offline, with D&D 3, 3.5, 4.0, and Pathfinder. There were times I thought writing was my calling, but that didn't quite pan out as I'd hoped it would, and when I tried to go to college for English as a Teacher, I spent only two semesters before getting fed up at the program, and at the students I was interning for. Dropped out. Signed on. The rest is above.
Funny how that works.
Anyway, now I'm going to go to work. ;p
Ciao. And after a month, or two; Hello.
I am Mike. Male, clearly, for anyone who's heard me in TS. Currently, I am 25.
By 'profession', I'm a sailor - spent 4 years in the US Navy as a glorified diesel mechanic (EN2 at time of separation), and I'm working on my Third Engineer's Certificate so that I can sail privately and progress towards my seven-year goal of Captaincy, 50 tonnage, inland and coastal waters, and though I likely won't have the seatime for it by then I can at least get knowledge enough to put me in the game.
I am likewise working on my Mechanical Engineering bachelors, though lately I've been considering changing to Electrical Engineering. A few years ago when I left the service, I realized that I'd found something I loved doing, that I was good at, and that realization alone, I think, is a very rare gift in this sort of a world where most people don't or haven't realized what they want to do with the rest of their lives. However, I plan on finishing college (for free, lol) before starting down the maritime path full-time.
My tipping point for leaving the Navy was that if I were going to be working ~20 hours a day, and on-call for the next 4, I'd better damnedable well be paid overtime. That and I thought a lot of my bosses were stupid and didn't like it very much when Congress refused to pay us for, what was it, 2 months? The short answer was that I liked sailing, loved the Pacific to death, but I met more happy, content, and even compassionate people overseas than I'd ever seen in America. Now that I'm back here, the first thing I want to do is set foot on a boat and sail the fuck in the other direction.
No offense to any present, of course, but it's certainly true that we Americans are a surly, entitled bunch sometimes.
As a gamer, I've been role playing since thirteen, both on and offline, with D&D 3, 3.5, 4.0, and Pathfinder. There were times I thought writing was my calling, but that didn't quite pan out as I'd hoped it would, and when I tried to go to college for English as a Teacher, I spent only two semesters before getting fed up at the program, and at the students I was interning for. Dropped out. Signed on. The rest is above.
Funny how that works.
Anyway, now I'm going to go to work. ;p
Ciao. And after a month, or two; Hello.
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