What do ya mean I can't march with piano.
Well, that's about it. I'm out of money, I'm not making enough, and whatever you're about to suggest for getting a job, I've tried it. Attempting to gain alternate certification for teaching has failed. You have to be able to get hired. So far, I've got half of a position, not enough. The biggest killer at my interviews? Not an experienced teacher. sigh............(so you'd rather finish the year with frickin' substitues?) Solution? Back in the Army I go. Woot.
So now that I now where I'm going, the question is what do I do when I get there? Will they try to cram me back into my old MOS? (the obvious answer being yes, but can they make it stick?) Should I reclass to arabic? Join the Army Band? Why not infantry? Hell, what about special forces? The only thing I can easily rule out is OCS, because I can't afford to wait long enough to get together an officer packet.
Really what it comes down to, is band, or my old MOS, but in arabic. My wife wants me to go Band, but I don't know. I don't know how long the auditioning will take. I don't know if I want to take a job where I'd have to wear class A's all the time, or God help me, dress blues. Plus, like the man said, you can't march and carry a piano, so I'd have to vastly improve my clarinet skills or something. Big bonus though, and an automatic promotion to sergeant. I could stay with the band for just a few years, bone up on my music, let my wife finally get her degree, clean up my finances a bit, and head into professional music when I get out. If I chose to get out. Who knows, professional opera, musical theater, concerts......................
Or Arabic. I'm very, very good at my job, just sucky at the language side with korean. (although oddly enough, this wasn't much of a barrier.) I enjoy being in the know, and having a clearance. I like being a part of what was actually influencing what was going on. On the other hand, in six years I was in, I only actually did that part for less than a year. If I do go this route, it's definitely for the rest of the twenty years to retirement, but then again, that's probable even in the band.
Oh well, we'll see. And remember, don't think of it as rejoining an organization you didn't like (yes, I know, largely my attitude, although not wholly), think of it as being to much of a failure at life to remain a civilian and still make a living. Toodles, and goodnight.