Possibly, if I can't find a regular job because no one is hiring, I can't make enough money to buy food and rent being self-employed, or I feel it is safer to fight in a war then to live in Canada which is unlikely unless a bunch of radicals extremists decide to invade Canada. It sure beats being homeless and hungry, and having no money or living somewhere infested with radicals extremists.
I most likely apply for a civilian job like working at an office run by the military like a recruiting office, the Pentagon, or office or civilian related jobs like "cooks, janitors, electrician, techy, mechanic, IT, computer science, etc." I wouldn't want to fight in a "battle field/war zone" since it can be very dangerous and traumatic.
Should something happen to this country by the hand of a malevolent, hostile country I would most likely join. As much as I dislike the United States I realize that it is the lesser of many evils.
I would also join if the economy were to completely fail (as froggyboy said)or if I saw some other need.
Good luck to all the men and women deployed here and abroad.
I think the misnomer about being in the military is that everybody thinks it’s boot camp 24/7 and your job is either being infantry or riding in tanks, or whatever direct combat stereotype people have.
Most military jobs are desk jobs, and I’m friends with a lot of guys in the military who do tech jobs like running/managing servers, network cabling, or just IT help. It’s free on the job training/experience, that you get paid to do, and they cite their coworkers getting out and walking into high paying tech jobs, because of the certs they get paid to receive.
Sure through a complicated network you’re vicariously killing someone, but it’s not this whole doom and gloom thing people seem to think it is.
