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Can’t tell you about any SW experience. I can say that honestly they don’t do as much welding as they should unless they go to some specialty schools. As an EO or Equipment Operator I have had my fair share of time behind the sticks. Lots of experience transferable to the civilian world and lots of progression opportunities as you move up the ranks
The most important thing I wanted to stress is to get everything in writing and signed and dated because the career counselors that you are sent to speak with while at the MEPS station prior to being sworn in, are specifically trained to take young kids who are shy, quiet and making their own choices for the first time and to persuade them out of the career they have chosen and put into a crap job that the Navy needs filled. Stick to your plan and do not let them change your mind no matter what they say or if they are acting pissed off or even lying to your face by saying that they checked and your job is no longer available. If they try that, simply start to walk out and say you will try again next year. They have a quota so they need to to sign up, so they will say ok let me double check and then say you lucked out because he just had someone changed their job choice.
It happened to me so I tell everyone to do all of the research as to which job has a better chance of rank advancement and career opportunities if you decide to separate from the military.
If you choose a job that they need a lot of workers, then you will have better rank advancement if you really learn your craft while everyone else is out drinking and screwing around. If you chose a specialty job such as an X-ray technician for example. They only need just a handful of those, so when the time comes for you to advance in rank because of time in service, there has to be room for someone in front of you to advance up and have an opening for someone to fill. To make it worse, there maybe a thousand people Navy wide who is fighting for that one rank advancement so you have to take a test to show how well you know your job and your scores have to be the highest over the other 999 people. If there is a score tie, then whoever has kissed enough butt and can have all of those butts give you the most recommendations, only then can you advance in Rank.
Good luck, My Seabee friends on the island of Guam had a blast operating all of the heavy equipment while building many warehouses and roads.
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Former Seabee (BU) from 2005 -2015. I loved being a Bee and was Charlie Company with the SWs. You'll mostly be doing Builder work with some occasional welding. I'd say you'll have a lot of fun and you can do training with other rates to get extra licenses (like MTVR driver or Forklift operator). One big drawback to the rates is the miniscule opportunities for advancement. It's been bottlenecked for a while now so make sure you study and practice a lot....and make ggeyog your SCWS pin a priority. you'll rarely ever be on a ship pooror 88
Hear me out, it's a hard rate to get into but MC might fit your Social Media Manager title a bit better. Or do it the risky route and go undesignated and hope to strike MC at that time, if that's not available at that time. You could always try for Seabee