I'm lost

[Solid Snake]

I go to school in Philadelphia. This is my second year here. I am 19 years old. My school is kicking everyone besides freshmen from the dorms so I have nowhere to live next year. My parents are giving me the option to commute from home. Normally I wouldn't mind except that my mom's rules for living at home are nearly unbearable. Some of these include a midnight cerfew and everything in the house must be freakishly clean which doesn't work for a tech nut like myself. Add constant bitching to the mix and home isn't a very fun place to be.

I have no job. I have no girlfriend. Either would be nice. My friends advise me to move out but the chances of me finding an apartment and half decent job and some kind of transportation at the same time are slim. Especially between semesters. At the end of this year I'll have 56 college credits. I'm quite good with computers (programming, hardware etc) and electronic design (digital and analog), so my friend suggested I enlist in the Air Force as an engineer of some kind. I've done a few searches on these forums and from that I've decided Air Force is the branch for me, if any.

From what I gather, I'd be away from "home" around 335 days out of the year. Also the quality of life for USAF guys seems to be better than that of "grunts". What's "home" like for the enlisted? Comparable to a dorm? I don't want to get this info from someone who's paid to get me in, I went through that mess with this school's admissions department. What's the smallest amount of time possible to sign yourself over to uncle Sam? Also, what's the female situation?

[Blazer06]

You might want to edit that word about what your mom does...

sorry to hear the poo thats going on..., but cant really help you.


Blaze

[JacobM5727]

yeah, thats a scary word, plus you cant even be pg 13 anymore
(even though you need to be 13 to sign up)



none of your friends will put you up?

[Solid Snake]

Put me up? like let me live with them? Well most of them are in college and have dorms, the others live with their parents.

[JacobM5727]

yeah thats what i meant, i see.. thats too bad
you could always be a hippy and camp outside the school till they let you in

i dunno what its like in the airforce, so in cant really say
usually military housing depends on the location

[Mike]

SS: You wouldn't want to be enlisted, you should prefer having a college dorm...

Sorry to hear about your living problems, I have family all over Philadelphia, but they probably wouldn't be too keen about some random internet college student living with them. If only I were going to a school in Philly.

*EDIT* One of the only good things about enlisted housing is the fact that it's paid for.

[Solid Snake]

"SS: You wouldn't want to be enlisted, you should prefer having a college dorm... "

Problem is, I'm not going to have it next year.

[Mike]

YGPM

[Cyclone2]

Some of these include a midnight cerfew and everything in the house must be freakishly clean which doesn't work for a tech nut like myself. Add constant bitching to the mix and home isn't a very fun place to be.

hmmmmm sounds just like Air Force rules

[RADAR1797]

Air Force enlisted quarters are very nice. Almost every base has renovated their dorms in the past ten years. Most are a dorm style room shared with one other person with a bathroom shared with one other pair of airmen. Some bases have individual rooms, usually slated for Senior Airmen. Enlisting in the AF is a great way to get an education paid for. Just by going to the technical school and with your current credits, you will earn an associate's degree.
Now that being said, your first duty assignment you would be learning your job, so odds are your supervisor would not let you take classes until you completed upgrade training. If you are interested in working with computers I would suggest becoming a Computer Operator 3C0X1 or if you are more interested in the electronics and hardware side of the house, you could be a Computer Maintainer 2E2X1. Both have their pluses and minuses.
With the number of college credits you have, you should start out with one stripe, and quickly put on another. Please let me know if you have any questions or concerns.

-RADAR