Perhaps from your perspective as an officer, but being enlisted was a kafkaesque nightmare. The management structure from the lowest NCO up was typically comple

Perhaps from your perspective as an officer, but being enlisted was a kafkaesque nightmare. The management structure from the lowest NCO up was typically completely inflexible and almost antagonistic at times. You are committed to the most mind numbing busywork (like shoveling snow or shredding a ton of paper) that there’s absolutely no way to gain satisfaction from. Self actualization is pretty much an impossibility. Being a numb vegetable is spending 16 hour days in Iraq guarding a fence. Nothing in the civilian/corporate world comes close. Also you can always quit ;D