I am currently looking at requesting Army recruiter for my next assignment. What does the daily life looks like for recruiters now?

Amen! I was the top Recruiter of Battalion one month, worst the following month! At a Boy to Oh shit! Hated recruiting under Clinton, but I must say, gave me another skill set that has kept me employed the past 20 years. Soldier to salesman. Jumping out of planes and flying in Helicopters to a desk was the hardest transition I ever made. Adapt improvise over come. Put em in boots! Thank all you guys who make it happen!

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Never served in USAREC myself, but I remember what my recruiters went through. I would highly recommend avoiding the Madison, WI area. Very liberal, very anti-military. They had a very hard time making mission. Best of luck to you if you do pursue it.

Tough job, far away from the "flag pole" support system. Most recruiter are detailed, not volunteers. USAR recruiters have bigger pool to draw from and have a different experiance

It really will depend on your leadership, your mission and where you are recruiting at. Some people hate it no matter what. Ive been doin it for about 6 months now. Sometimes it sucks other times it doesnt. Worst case scenario you do it for 3 yrs if you hate it, you can just go back to the line. I miss the line dearly some times. But freaquently find myself contemplating sticking with it.

Recruiting sucked. It was a 36 month tour that sucks the life right out of you. You will either become a drunk or whore and maybe both. If married start looking for a good lawyer because your wife will leave you. I want to beat the hell out of the whole recruiting chain of command I had. The station commander recruiters or guys who converted have no morals or values. Piss on Recruiting.

Like everyone else has said, your center will really dictate how your time on recruiting will be. I have a great center, but we all live so far apart and have a long commute. I generally leave the house at 530 and get home between 1830 and 2100. You can really go from hero to zero in a month. Doesn't matter what you did this month or last month. It's what you have for next month.

Seems most posting here found recruiting less than satisfactory. I never recruited, so feel free to dismiss this, but picture this: an entire office full of recruiters couldn't agree with me fast enough when I would sit on the fence and say how "it's a big decision," and so forth. All but one. An E-7, the NCOIC. He said, "No it's not. It's a few years, you can do that standing on your head. That's nothing."
That point of view I couldn't argue. That point of view earned my signature. Because he seemed more like a professional Soldier, and less like a lying sonofabitch used car salesman.

All I can ask, as a veteran that tried to get back in, is: Be fair and treat all comers as if they are the single most important part of your task, veteran, or youngster.

When I was trying to get back in, just before Desert Shield and Desert Storm, the recruiter lied and tossed my papers into the bottom of his desk. I was there saying 'Send me, not some fresh out of High School kid', but because I didn't represent a bonus, I wasn't worth his time and effort, to send in a few pieces of paper, to reenlist. My papers were eventually found, and he was blocked from ever being a recruiter, again. He blamed me for tracking down my papers, when I was trying to do the honorable thing. He ruined my chance of serving in combat, for which I was already trained. Because of him, I am certain that several lives were surely lost, for lack of experience and lower training than we had in Cold War Europe, where I served over 2 years. I'm not saying I was a great Armor crewman, but I was one Hell of a tank-driver, and should have been with 2/69 Armor, when they rolled into Baghdad, not watching innocent kids die on TV.