So originally I was gonna go to art school in Colorado, but it was really expensive. I didn't know that much about the GI bill or like specific branches of the military at the time. My wife at one point in her life was gonna join the Air Force Reserves, and then I also grew up next to Buckley Air Force Base. So all three of those things kind of equated out to me joining the Air Force like finding this YouTube channel, finding other YouTube channels. I'm just getting as informed as I can, and it just led me down that path of this is probably the best branch for me, and like the best thing for me in this season of my life, for job security, and then focusing on other things outside of the Air Force to set up a good future. I've been in the Air Force for two and a half years now. I joined February 2017, and I'm in A1C. So my job is CyberSystems Operations, the AFC is 3DOX2. I got this job in-depth. I waited about maybe a month or two for the contract. This was the second job on my like pick 10 list or whatever, and this ended up being the job that I wanted to do because after I was already in my number one pick with CyberSurity, and I actually saw what they did, and I liked this job a lot better. So I guess you could say that I did get my number one job. So CyberSurity like I just said was my number one pick, but that's because my recruiter wouldn't let me put the actual jobs that I wanted to do on there. He said that they just weren't really getting people and getting contracts for those right now, but I really wanted to do a graphic design job. I forgot what the AFC actually was, but when I went to MEPs, they told me that they just dropped that AFC. So then my other number one was photojournalism because I love photography and stuff like that, but that didn't end up working out either because he said I couldn't go that route. I also had some medical stuff on there, like dental and some other things. IT isn't something that I wanted to do, but it's something I ended up being used to, and so it's kind of the direction that I went. I signed a four-year contract. Six years was a really big commitment, and I wasn't ready to do that. Text school for CyberObs is at Keesley Air Force Base in Baluxi, Mississippi. Text school is basically four months, unless it's changed, which I don't think that it has, but it's basically four months long. So from basic through text school, it's pretty much just a six-month process. Text school was amazing. Keesley Air Force Base has the best defects in the Air Force, so we talk about it all the time at work, just looking back at it. It's not so fun when you're there, but since you're all there together with people who are kind of a lot like you, it's easy to make a lot of friends. And you just kind of go through the same things together, and so you have pretty much anybody and everybody to talk about it with. But all in all, it was a really good time. It's just kind of something you have to experience alone. Text school in Mississippi is super humid because it's like right in the Gulf. So once you get past that and stuff, it's really not the big of a deal. The ocean is cool. It's like a man-made ocean. It's not super bad. There's a lot of fun stuff to do around there too, so it was like an eight out of ten. I'd give it an eight out of ten. So it's cyber-ops, you can pretty much go anywhere in the Air Force, and I think you can also go places like to other army bases and stuff like that. It's a really versatile job. You can pretty much get, you can pretty much end up doing in this IT cyber career-filled in the Air Force with this job, specifically for system administrators, but sometimes you get pulled to do other things as well. So the job goes literally anywhere. So there's two main things for cyber-ops, and these are the two main things you learn at text school. I would say you learn a lot about cyber security, which takes you into SEC Plus, which is a cert-by-comp TIA that you end up getting to graduate text school. So you learn a ton of stuff about vulnerabilities, getting hacked, viruses and stuff like that, and then the other side of things is system administration. So if you don't know what that is, it's server administration, keeping websites up and running, keeping applications up and running. Pretty much anything that you're accessing online is on a server, and so we have to keep those alive so that people can continue to access them from other remote locations. Our job starts with, it's kind of like a 9-to-5. So we show up at work at 7 o'clock, we go home at 4 o'clock, Monday, Wednesday and Friday is PT. So we show up at 7 o'clock, do PT for 30 minutes to 45 minutes, and then we go home, change shower, and we come back to work at like 9 o'clock and then it's from 9-to-4. Our job is really general, so you can end up doing pretty much anything like I said before, but that's like the bare minimum of that job. It's a pretty cool job. You do a lot with virtual machines, which are computers. There's a ton of computers on one computer. You'd have to look it up. It's kind of complicated, but yeah, that's pretty much what we do. So if a new Airman showed up in our shop, the first thing I would tell them is that they should get their CDC done as fast as possible. That's like a really big thing that leadership wants new Airman to get done. So once you get those done, you can kind of move on to the job training and you can actually get hands on with servers and with your job that you're doing on your base, whatever it is. That's probably the biggest thing because CDC's really take up a lot of time and they're really, they'll put you to sleep. They'll put you to sleep pretty quick too. So the sooner you get them done, the sooner you can actually do your job on a day-to-day basis, and that's when the Air Force kind of turns into the Air Force and you really break away from that like training, tech school, BMT mindset. Another thing is that there are a lot of negative people in the Air Force. So the first thing I would say is don't be one of those negative people. And the second thing I'd say is just kind of take it one day at a time. Maybe don't go in. If you want to do a career that's awesome, but going with the mindset that anything is possible and that there could be new opportunities, doors opening and doors closing everywhere. So just be as optimistic as possible and then just don't let people drag you down. That's like the best advice that I can give. So I make Air Force videos as well. My YouTube channel name is Skate Narley. That's SK8GNARLEY. My title for that channel is Jonathan Sullivan. I don't really go by Skate Narley anymore. 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