Just met with a Navy Recruitment Officer and was debating between 2 options jobwise. On the ASVAB pretest I scored a 97 (although I am speculative), and the recruiter was really pushing me towards becoming a Nuke.
To give you some history on my background I graduated HS with average GPA. Went to a community college to transfer and found myself unmotivated and flunked out. I then took a gap year to work various jobs, then returned to college and succeeded for the first 1.5 years, but once again slowly fell apart and found myself unmotivated. My parents thought that joining the Navy is a good idea to help become accountable for myself. Also, I have been told that I "thrive in structured environments" by my parents as well as work well in situations with external social pressure (ex. group projects) because I don't want to let my groupmates down, etc.
Although I struggled previously in college, it wasn't really from difficulty (except for Calculus), but rather from me not putting in proper effort like not doing homework or studying when I should have been.
I am thinking of joining the Navy to get a "fresh start" and was debating between the cyber program or the nuke program. I find the concepts and topics within physics to be more interesting, but I heard the quality of life as a nuke sucks. I don't really know what else people within do in the cyber field other than coding, so some information/insight would be great.
For living conditions, land is definitely preferred, but could deal with living on a carrier. However, living on a sub does not seem like something I would ever want to do.
Currently, I do not plan for this to be permanent, but as a helpful tool that would help build discipline, a strong, maintainable work ethic, and turn me into a capable and self-accountable man.
Lastly, career paths after the Navy are important to me. I see cyber having a lots different of applications in the future, but don't really see anything other than working in the nuclear sector after being a nuke. Also, I heard the air force has a good cyber program and post enlistment options, but don't really know the difference between their program and the navy.
Thanks for reading and feel free to give your input.