I joined the Air Force for the education benefits to be honest, grew up poor. I mean I had scholarships for music and I really didn't know what I wanted to do with my life and the Air Force just looked like the best option for me. So yeah, I really just joined to really travel because I grew up in small town in Texas so that's why I joined the Air Force. I am no longer in the Air Force and so I have a hand tattoo in case anybody wants to ask. I've been on the Air Force for about eight months now but I was in the Air Force for six years and I got out as an E4 senior airman. The name of the job I was in was Knowledge Operations Management and the AFSC was a 3D 0X1. So when I went into the dep I originally was going in this open admin but some things went down with my family and I switched with someone last minute and I went in as Knowledge Operations Management which is this job I'm interviewing with. So yes I went in with this job so yeah. No it was not something that I wanted to do. I'm a very optimistic person. I take on the challenges. I learn to adapt to my surroundings and what not but it's not what we are supposed to be doing in this career film at all. So no it's not something that I wanted to do at all. I really wanted to do something in the medical career film. However the wait list was just so long it would have been like another year of me being in the dep and that was something that I was not wanting to do. I didn't know exactly what I wanted to do in the medical career film I just wanted to do something in the medical career film. I mean I guess it worked out. I signed to sit here contract. My tech school was in Baluxi Mississippi. It was at Keesler Air Force Base. At the time seven years ago when I went through tech school seven eight years ago it was about three months I believe was the average tech school time for knowledge operations management. Tech school was fun for me. It allowed me to really kind of experience that college lifestyle because I did join at the young age of 18. It wasn't too bad we did have a lot of tests in short span of time since our tech school was so short. It was nice as well because we didn't we weren't there for an extended amount of time like other calm based career films like cyber transport all of those other ones but it wasn't bad. We were in an ice location. You had Baluxi right outside of the Air Force Base. There was stuff to do. The food was good. The defect was good. I like the salad bar. It wasn't a bad area. If you watch any other video you can figure out tech school stories but it wasn't a bad experience. It was basic tech school experience. It was good. One good thing about being an knowledge operations manager is that when it comes to being stationed at a base you pretty much have free reign on what base you can go to. There's not really many restrictions because as an knowledge operations manager you can pretty much work anywhere because they have a lot of spots open at the base. As an knowledge operations manager you are in the calm career film however you are not working on computers as a whole like a normal calm person would. You are primarily dealing with records management so you are storing records. You are dealing with SharePoint which is a website on a computer which you store documents. You don't store documents however you build programs for units in the Air Force and you maintain them and you are basically to put it the boss of them so people in the units come to you for guidance. So you really have to learn the in and out. You have a set guidelines of what you're supposed to do as a knowledge operations manager. As an knowledge operations manager you have different things that you do in your career film. It's not a hard career film however it's very tedious at times. As an knowledge operations manager you work a normal 730 to 430 shift you don't work. You don't work holidays it's just a normal 730 to 430 shift you usually get off early on Fridays. And you get holidays off it's your normal Monday through Friday. As an knowledge operations manager you don't earn a lot of service. You don't earn a lot of service. You don't earn a lot of service. As an knowledge operations manager you don't earn a lot of service but I did a lot of share point training well as in because I was at a base that required it but I did a lot of share point training and so those certifications transferred out and so I could go and use those as a spin on in the civilian sector but now that I'm a civilian I can speak from a personal standpoint. In my text school I learned I earn quite a few credits and so now I transfer my CCF to my college and I want to say I like 38 of those credits transferred towards my associate or my bachelor's degree. So that was pretty cool so a lot of those credits transferred and if I was going towards a computer based degree all of those would have transferred towards my degree. Deployment tempo, average, my job is kind of in the middle for deploying. It's mainly in the garden reserves that deploy a lot in this job that I've noticed. I never deployed in my six years I was tasked to deploy after I was pregnant and I could not deploy due to my wisdom teeth need to get taken out. Not that many people deploy in my career field. If you are looking for a job that is easy, that has good hours, that you can see your family, you can easily take leave with this is the job for you. I didn't have any complaints of the job minus the fact that we never really did things inside of our career field. I was always having to learn something new which to me I didn't really have a problem with that. I was always staying busy which I liked. Maybe they go by quick. I got to travel with this job. I was able to go to all these different bases. I was stationed in Germany for three and a half years. A lot of people that I know they stayed at one base their entire enlistment for six years. Me, I was at my third base by the time I hit four and a half years. So that's just something to keep in mind. This is a good job to go into if you're looking for those things. Some advice I would give to a new airman coming in the Air Force would just be keep up on your PT standards. That is something that the Air Force is becoming very strict on right now is PT standards. Don't eat like crap. Work out. But also just be careful who you trust. Don't confide in people that you don't really know. That's something that's very hard to do especially being young and being new is just trying to find people that you get along with just I'm just gonna say be careful you trust because they will be quick to burn you. And I'm speaking from experience. Air Force is fun. I will say that I don't miss it. There are many things that I do not like about the Air Force. However, I am very grateful that I was able to serve. I'm very grateful for my benefits now that I'm out. And I'm grateful that I was just able for everything that has given me those are the main things. PT, keep up on your PT, be careful you trust and just don't be a dirt bag. Don't be a dirt bag. If you want to follow me my Instagram is I-R-Y-L-I-E and my Twitter is I-R-Y-L-I-E.