If you can't find a job and are half fit go join the military

[parried]

I would have signed up a long time ago but I have a GED instead of a high school diploma, and I was diagnosed with aspergers at age 17 which disqualifies me from all service. Otherwise I would have really considered it years ago. You can blame the gubament you love so much that holds people down in life.

[GeorgiaTransplant]

Originally Posted by Dub D

31k a year? When? Which year in? Definitely not the first two.

Basic pay, E-1, 0 years of service = $1,531 a month

Housing allowance, E-1 = $511 a month

Food allowance, E-1 = $357 a month

Housing and meals are tax free, so if you estimate taxes at 20%, (511+357)/.8 = 1085

1085+1531 = 2616, * 12 = 31,392.


You don't get housing and food in cash. You get it "in kind", which is a room in the barracks for free and 3 squares a day for free. If you get married or are authorized to live off post or mess separately, you get it in cash. Civilian jobs don't usually do that. You may not like the room or the meals, but they are still free, and still a room, and still meals.

That's why people get confused about military compensation, and the married servicemember who gets a free house with free utilities mistakenly gets upset about how little money he makes.