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I'm trying to figure out what jobs interest me but I'm all over the place. I'm looking for something challenging, intriguing, travels well (I know that all MOSs move around but something with the potential for good duty stations and good amount of deployments) and something with good civilian skills. The MOSs I tagged are just a few that have interested me. If anyone can share the typical day to day for these I'd really appreciate it! Also, what are the chances for promotion? I've heard 88K are a small group that don't promote a lot..
88M: Motor Transport Operator
88K: Watercraft Operator
15N: Avionic Mechanic
25C: Radio Operator Maintainer
15Q: Air Traffic Control Operator
Posted 5 y ago
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Your question is as wide as the sea is deep.
First, I'm a Career Counselor in the Army, so this is actually what I do for a living. There are a lot of things Soldiers don't take into consideration when picking their job and there are a lot of red herrings, and I'll share those with you.
To answer your question best, you need to identify where you want to be in 10 or 20 years, from there we work backward.
There are a few misconceptions that are common with first term Soldiers:
Civilian skills - the majority of Soldiers will not do their job once they leave the Army. If they like their job they stay in the Army. Most Soldiers who leave, even if it's with a valuable skill set, will pursue something else. Unless your goal is to come into the Army to have them pay for a specific training that you want, don't fall into the "civilian skills" thought trap. It's a red herring. Also those skills that you earn a certification for are entry level jobs in the civilian market. If that's a job you want, then great. Otherwise, after a few years in the Army your leadership skills are more valuable to a company as a leader or manager than your certification as a worker bee.
The smaller, more technical or civilian oriented the job, the slower the promotion. There is a direct correlation for most jobs between civilian certification and promotion potential. Also, between size of the MOS Nad promotion potential. The best promoting MOSs are combat MOSs. The fastest promoting MOS in the Army is Infantry.
As for challenging, that comes down to how hard you're willing to work. Diver, Special Forces, Prime Power, Electronic Warfare, and EOD are all challenging and intriguing in different ways. Some have limited duty stations but travel often, others have a wide variety of duty stations.
Deployment and travel are largely a matter of what duty position you are filling at the time. It's less based on your MOS and more on what unit you're at. You could be Infantry working as a Defense Attache in an embassy somewhere in the world. I have a friend who was an 88M who worked as a driver to a General in Belgium. He also worked at a combat brigade driving trucks, worked at an SF unit in an office coordinating travel arrangements, worked in Egypt driving a bus, and other assignments as well.
First, I'm a Career Counselor in the Army, so this is actually what I do for a living. There are a lot of things Soldiers don't take into consideration when picking their job and there are a lot of red herrings, and I'll share those with you.
To answer your question best, you need to identify where you want to be in 10 or 20 years, from there we work backward.
There are a few misconceptions that are common with first term Soldiers:
Civilian skills - the majority of Soldiers will not do their job once they leave the Army. If they like their job they stay in the Army. Most Soldiers who leave, even if it's with a valuable skill set, will pursue something else. Unless your goal is to come into the Army to have them pay for a specific training that you want, don't fall into the "civilian skills" thought trap. It's a red herring. Also those skills that you earn a certification for are entry level jobs in the civilian market. If that's a job you want, then great. Otherwise, after a few years in the Army your leadership skills are more valuable to a company as a leader or manager than your certification as a worker bee.
The smaller, more technical or civilian oriented the job, the slower the promotion. There is a direct correlation for most jobs between civilian certification and promotion potential. Also, between size of the MOS Nad promotion potential. The best promoting MOSs are combat MOSs. The fastest promoting MOS in the Army is Infantry.
As for challenging, that comes down to how hard you're willing to work. Diver, Special Forces, Prime Power, Electronic Warfare, and EOD are all challenging and intriguing in different ways. Some have limited duty stations but travel often, others have a wide variety of duty stations.
Deployment and travel are largely a matter of what duty position you are filling at the time. It's less based on your MOS and more on what unit you're at. You could be Infantry working as a Defense Attache in an embassy somewhere in the world. I have a friend who was an 88M who worked as a driver to a General in Belgium. He also worked at a combat brigade driving trucks, worked at an SF unit in an office coordinating travel arrangements, worked in Egypt driving a bus, and other assignments as well.
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11B of course. But Air Traffic controller or Avionic Mechanic would be a great MOS that would translate into the civilian side. I have friends who were ATC in the military and now work the civilian side and love it.
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Hey I’m a 88k at the moment and The job is being removed from the reserve side... this tells me that they don’t need the reserves and therefore don’t need anyone so the job might not open for very long. And day to day if your not sailing your doing maintenance on your vessel so a lot of what seems like busy work but it’s not
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It’s a great job if you like the ocean, I’m a surfer so I don’t care what I have to do as long as I’m on the water Austin Maier
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