u/GrassChoice9241

Hello there, I am currently a serving British army soldier in the royal armoured corps, I posted here roughly a year ago because I was having a dilemma in phase 2 about how I applied to the navy as an officer and got rejected and then ended up joining the army on impulse, I love the army but still want to pursue being a officer in the royal navy as I have loved being on boats since I was a kid being on my granddad's boat and I did college for the soul reason of becoming an officer, when I applied originally I applied to be an warfare Officer and got told to essentially kick rocks because I was 18 and immature, I'm a year away from being in the army for 3 years and essentially Im looking at serving my 4 years in the army and then either transfering over or leaving and rejoining the navy as an officer. Anyway now that I'm at the regiment I've realised that my skill set is heavily in signals and Navigation and Vehicle recognition and I've learnt by working alongside the Army Air corps that helicopters are awesome. Anyway I've been looking at roles on the royal navy website for a few months to decide what I'd like to do and The two roles that stick out are Air traffic control officer and Air crew officer Observer, these roles really interest me for the simple fact of they use radios and involve some level of navigation mapping and planning and I think the qualification id gain from Air traffic control officer would be better for me as I could use that outside of the military and we all have to leave at somepoint but I would like to make the military a full career, while I understand from watching my own officers that alot of being an officer is management and going to meetings ect I feel like I'd also find that aspect rewarding as I know how I personally would want my officers to do top cover and have sympathy for the rating/soldier/airman whatever branch it is I choose to be in, if anyone has any advice or think there's a different role that would better suit me then that'd be greatly appreciated, many thanks in advance.

Hello so I'm here to vent my frustrations and stress because sharing may make it better. Basically a few weeks ago I bought a new car with the plans of selling my old car to clear myself from finance to release some financial pressure (and the fact I could buy a new better and faster car and own it outright) for context I live in the UK and I thought that I'd be happy however it's been 2 weeks since I bought this car and my old car and this car have caused me nothing but grief my old car still hasn't been sold 2 weeks on as I haven't got my log book and now the MOT and Tax have run out on it and I've just learnt today that tax has a penalty if you don't pay it before it runs out, I don't live at my postal address so have had to wait for my mum to send me my V5 even though I said I'd drive home (a 4 hour drive) to get it so I have it but she for some reason said no which has really put me in a bind, and now I have to take it for an MOT to tax it just so I can sell it and it's going to cost me alot of money, with my new car a week after buying it someone crashed into me on a round about causing minor damage and then just after I was caught speeding (presumably because I was angry) which I do admit was my fault but now I'm financially fucked for the rest of the month which I don't actually know what to do about, I want to go home for my sister's birthday but don't think I'll be able to afford to and I don't know when I'll be able to get rid of my stupid old car that just needs to be gone now and I honestly wish I never started buying a new car, it's been nothing but grief. And now I'm stressed over something that shouldn't have meant anything and it's irritating it's the most financial stress I've ever felt because I'm good at money but things out of my control have started eating away at my money and I don't know how to cope honestly.