Philip M

All the other lights come on as they should, but the engine light which normally turns on at ignition does not. I checked fuses, electrical lines... nothing. what am I missing?

I have been to a recruiting station several times throughout the past 3 years. I am working but not making the bills now (but I keep getting promised a promotion while busting my tail) and I want to do something different and be able to pay my bills and have a steady pay. In considering enlistment I have always been talked out of it by friends or family and every time I turn down the opportunity it kills me. If I choose to enlist my immediate family will most likely not support my decision as they have not supported me in doing so in the past for every occasion I stepped into a recruiting station. At my wits end here, I want to walk back into that recruiting station but my biggest fear is that the army officers there will see me as a quitter.

Can I walk back in there with that humiliation? Each time I have left that station to not go back, I always end up back there. What the hell am I doing? Should I keep busting my *** to the show for nothing?

- I work as a Health Educator & Massage Therapist, currently 32 hours a week and steady but minimal clientele. I make 1,000 or barely more then that a month. I have to eat minimal food rations in order to pay my bills and survive on my own (I do not live with my folks - they put me out on the street a year ago in spite of no steady income) and as a result it is effecting my health. I am average build and getting thinner and more tired with every week that passes. My parents invite me over on the weekends but I find it depressing and unhelpful despite having a warm meal and being with family. I am really really lost, not depressed yet just very stressed out, and not happy with the direction of my life.

I am planning on enlisting as a MP. I need advice, comments, concerns, opinions, or personal experience, please.