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Honestly if your career is priority for you, the reserves isn’t going to help much.
YMMV but I joined while I was at my old firm and was coasting a little, and I got the google job after I had come back and now drill is a burden as I’m trying to ramp up my professional life. The time commitment is always more than they say it is, if you do guard you’ll have a 5 day drill every 3rd drill, and your AT gets extended semi frequently.
Again others may feel differently, but if I were you I would wait until after you get promoted and see how you feel.
Were you ever on AD?
Depending on your job, the reserves may not be feasible. I quit before joining consulting because as an O-4 OpsO the amount of mid-week work and weeknight meetings I had would simply be impossible here.
I asked about AD because I hated every single second of the reserves. I did it because I needed the money and health insurance. My experience with the reserves was all of the bad parts of the military (admin bullshit, constant e-learning and shifting requirements, threat of deployment) and none of the good (camaraderie, sense of accomplishment, flying, etc.).
This 100%. The type of training you do and ability to gain competencies in your job is much worse than active duty but you’re held to the same standard as your active duty counterpart. This isn’t a big deal in some career fields that align between military and civilian (for example, medical folks in the Guard/Reserve are often much better than active duty because of doing the same job on the civilian side) but can be a serious deficiency in something like combat arms.
The other thing is that basically unless you deploy or are mobilized (or are on non-training orders for an extended period of time) you won’t qualify for most veteran benefits.
Honestly if you’re dying to serve and have do serious research on the job plus what the military is actually like (I.e. plenty of people don’t do their job most of the time and being junior enlisted can be miserable), you’re better off going active duty. Get the GI Bill, go to a great school, be a fully qualified “veteran” in the eyes of the government.
Someone in my company’s bowl asked this question last week. Here’s the answer I gave them:
I was enlisted prior to joining Slalom, but I think I can still provide perspective. The short answer is that it highly depends on your unit's OPTEMPO. Out of a 6 year National Guard contract, I was on active duty for nearly 4 of those years. That includes lET, 2 deployments, and various other missions. 2 day drill weekends were a rarity, usually they were Thursday-Sunday.
I found it very difficult to have a successful career in tech while keeping up with my Army commitments, so I ETS'd. It's quite the challenge remaining proficient and relevant while missing several work days per month and even a year at a time.
I would suggest talking to members of your perspective unit to get a read on their OPTEMPO.
Your recruiter should be able to provide more information as well, but obviously take that information with a grain of salt.
This. Rarely ever 2 day drills except for PHA in October and for holiday party in Dec
I went from active to reserve for a few years. The reserves was my monthly reminder that leaving the military was the right thing to do.
I was activated constantly as a reservist. It's going to interrupt your day job/career.
If you’re committed to your career, I’d say don’t go for it. It’s an inconvenience
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Enlisted or Officer? Drill weekends aren’t that bad, just a bit of an inconvenience sometimes when you have plans to relax or do other things.
Annual training was probably the highlight of my time in the Reserves, we always had some pretty cool missions. I’ve done AT at Fort Jackson and Benning to help train recruits, trained cadets at Fort Knox, and went to Romania to train with the Romanian Army. Lots of diverse experiences.
A1 - Working to finish my degree. Aiming to be done by July/August
EY1 - Degree was not mandatory for me. I have 6-7 years of relevant experience that i was able to leverage
are a vet or how long you been out?
may need to do IET again
so least 4mo IET, possibly much longer. how would that play out w/ promo?
what is the attraction of reserves for u?
You contemplate on deciding about your priorities. If you have your career as your top priority then I suggest that you make a pass on joining the reserve.
yup reserve component is good for paying for undergrad otherwise bum deal
Does anyone have advice on reserve officer components that are more respectful of time? I’ve heard Nat Guard in general has frequent deployments. Are there any reserve components though where it is feasible to have an ambitious career without constant deployments? Navy v Army? Intel, cyber, etc?