This is not a Fortune 500 company. It's not a get-rich-quick scheme. This is the U.S. Navy where personnel are reported to have some of the highest levels of job satisfaction. Your job will take you around the world at no cost to you and will provide you with a stable income, excellent benefits and continuing professional growth opportunities.
Leaders Take Charge
As a U.S. Navy officer, you will lead your subordinates, plan strategies and make decisions. Officers meet with heads of state, organize rescue missions and set the pace for missions of all types and size. Officers can receive tuition reimbursement for their college expenses or attend college at the Navy's expense.
Officers can be administrators, combat platoon leaders, doctors, lawyers, intelligence experts and countless other career professionals. All officers demonstrate leadership skills, negotiation skills and organizational skills. Officers are well paid and highly respected wherever they go.
Followers Can Move Mountains
For those individuals who do not wish to take on the responsibilities that come with being an officer, there are plenty of challenging and exciting jobs to choose from as enlisted personnel. As an enlisted sailor, you receive many of the same benefits enjoyed by officers: free housing, full dental and medical coverage, free world travel, and 30 days paid vacation each year, just to name a few.
Enlisted personnel work together in teams to accomplish whatever goals are set by officers. The camaraderie and sense of accomplishment that comes with each day's work makes your job highly satisfying. Your job will include ongoing career training, promotion opportunities and the chance to make a real difference in the world.
Personal And Professional Development
Officers and enlisted personnel share more than a Commissary. These jobs teach everyone to be the best that they can, to take pride in a job well done and to work toward common goals. The values found at the core of every action are focused on integrity, honor and courage - words not seen often enough in the civilian sector.
As your job helps you to develop professional skills, your life will help you to develop your own sense of character, justice and integrity. These jobs are demanding and slackers are not tolerated. Failing to do your job can lead to someone else's life being in danger. Being able to count on the person next to you to follow through on his or her own responsibilities and to be prepared to assist those who need help means everyone accomplishes more.
If you want to lead, become a U.S. Navy officer. If you want to follow, enlist and start building a career. If you can't lead or follow, you'd better keep flipping those burgers!
