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How should people get ready for a career? There are many ways a person can accomplish the start of a career. Sure they could choose the military, but there are other options as well. I don't think that military service is the best option for starting a work career. It may give some work skills, but it is not for everyone. I had tried to go into the military, but I was turned down for whatever reason. While participating in ROTC classes when I was in college, I found the discipline to be absolutely oppressive. I tend to be a free spirit and to be told to do things that I don't agree with is very difficult.

Some people might believe that joining the military is the only way to get started, but there are many things a person can do to begin a work career. I would rather see a person join a volunteer group such as vista or peace corps where they are assigned to help people in some setting instead of being assigned to a military unit that might have the assignment to kill people. There are also many ways for people to get job skills. If a person wants to be a plumber, they would work under a plumber to learn the job. If they want to work in an office, they could do it without much training.

I think that there should be schools that teach job skills and get people into jobs. Not these schools that charge thousands of dollars for information they could learn on their own, but where students actually learn the job by doing it and getting paid to do it. Some might say that is what the military is about, but I don't agree. The ideal situation would be a place where a person has the freedom to learn the skill in his/her own way and then be able to use it in a job without having to be under any kind of commitment to the organization.

Since I have been teaching in China, I noticed all college students had to go through some military training during their first two weeks. I don't see what that accomplishes other than keeping them out of the classroom for two weeks. If they want to be in the military, then they should join the military; but they should not be forced to go through exercises that will not give them any benefit in the future.

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