NAVY: chosing rate...?
What is the best (fun, not hard to be promoted, not a paint chipper, translates well to civilian life) NAVY rate. Keep in mind I am a female. Tell me the name of rate, then some perks to the job (bonus is you tell me where the A school is and how long)
thank you
Update:*updated after first comment:
I got a 70 on my ASVAB 109 AQFT... I was previously in the Coast Guard... however the rates are completely unrelated.
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Fun is completly open to interpretation. Some people like being the paint chipper Boatswain's Mate types, some don't.
I know being an OS is a good gig, as there are alot of different specializations you can do under that envelope, and most of them can translate into the civilian world.
I for one love being an Intelligence Specialist, but the advancement rate right now is at a horrid 1.4%.
If your rate is on a ship you will be chipping paint no matter what. If you are looking for something that transfers over to a marketable skill in the civilian world I would suggest any of the Technical Rates such as FC,ET, or one of the engineering rates EM,GSE.
Depends on the person, their likes, dislikes, and abilities. AND most importantly it depends on your ASVAB scores, what you qualify for and what is currently being offered (or "open") the day you sit down with a Classifier at MEPs because those are the only choices that you are going to get....