Shane Murphy:  

Life Short story, ask me for more. Graduated high school in 1989, was in basic training the next morning for Navy. One year later, transfered to Army, 12th SF GP. Spent total of 8 years in service, achieved a number of MOS, every unit I was in seemed to be RIFed in the 90s, which necessitated transfer to other units. I worked counter drug ops, turned against our drug war. Graduated OCS, realized I hated the politics of the officer corp. Wanted to be a combat arms leader, the military wanted administrators and micromanagers. In the end, my Constitutional and historical studies led me to think our whole military and government are too big, too bloated to serve their stated purpose, but are big enough for ambitious, amoral politicians to abuse. And they do. I got out, with regrets, in 1997. I no longer have any regrets. I bounced around too many colleges, taking courses and wasting years (and my money) on things I can better teach myself. I quit college, never took an engineering course, but developed solid high end computing, networking, and radio frequency engineering skills, enough to be offered high end design jobs for a number of firms over many people who have degrees. It cost little money, and I made time while supporting myself in a number of low end tech jobs. If my eyes had been open, what I started doing at 26 could have been done at 19. Was crippled in a workplace accident in 1999, hosed out any real compensation by the bad actors being under insured, made lemonade out of life's huge lemon by continually plugging away. Met my wife, lived in UK for a year, started over. Discovered doctors were causing more of my infirmity and constant intense pain than curing it, stopped treating, started ...Expand for more