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So, like I said yesterday, we got to go to work 2 hours later than normal today. I also got off work about an hour early than normal. Even so, I still feel like I got a lot of work done. It just makes me realize how much of a pain in the a** my old boss was. He would have us coming in early and staying late all the friggin time. But I still feel like I accomplished more today than I did on just about any day that he was in charge of me.

I really don't hate my job in the army. I just hate the army part of my job in the army. My job is really just like an office job, working with data and filing and reports and stuff. It's the starting every day with PT, going to stupid formations for no reason, doing stupid things just because someone higher up the food chain thinks it's a good idea, and of course the most important thing, being away from my family and friends.

Seriously, think about if someone said to you, "OK, we're gonna take you away from everything you care about for the next 4 years and there's nothing you can do about." And then, when you're 4 years are almost up, they're like, "Oh, wait, you actually can't go back until we're done with you. You're gonna have to stick around for an extra year."

After the first 2 years I already hated life, because I was never happy except for the 2 weeks out of every 6 months that I got to be home. After 3 years I'm really just fed up with it completely and don't understand how someone could be so cruel as to tack an extra year onto the 4 that I already had. It just amazes me that someone in Congress/DoD/Whoever makes these calls is so friggin heartless that they could do something like that.

And not only that, but I was even willing to give them a few extra years beyond the 5 that they're going to have me for now, if they would just send me to a base closer to home. But apparently that's just a little to hard for them to do =/. The retention system in the army is friggin broken it's not funny. You get paid s**t to begin with, they constantly screw you over and then they think that a stupid $15,000 tax free bonus is enough to make up for that. I'll tell ya, $15,000 tax free would really be nice, but if I made as much as I should make to begin with I wouldn't even really need it.

If you can't tell I really hate the army, I'd advise anyone that reads this to never join any branch of the military. I would probably just avoid any government jobs if I were you. Anyways, this entry is a little late, just like I'm a little late getting to sleep. So I'm gonna sign off for now. Good Night all =).