Optymistyk wrote: I've been thinking about joining the UN army
Just for your information the UN does not have an army. Essentially the UN agrees to send 'peace keepers' to some destination and then that is fulfilled by the army or armies of the countries involved ... Indeed the countries involved will push for a UN diktat to cover the actions which they wish to take ... So for instance one has the French Army & FFL (under the UN banner) presently in Mali and the DRC. This is because both Mali and the DRC are ex-French colonies.
After WW2 the vast land empires of the UK and France were ended by the newly formed UN at the behest of America who understood the fiscal hegemony it had acquired from WW1 & WW2 ... and those land empires got in it's way.
However do be aware that UN Peace Keepers are under a specific mandate agreed before they are sent, i.e what they can do and the strict 'Terms of Engagement' they are always under.
A good example was Rwanda, 1994.
As the genocide being inflicted by the Hutu continued upon the Tutsi population, the UN set up refugee camps on the Ugandan border ..... When Hutu militia factions turned up at those camps in their 'Technicals' (a pick up truck fitted with a mounted .50 cal machine gun, or anti tank/aircraft gun or small missile battery) they simply entered and started killing again.... As the UN blue helmets stood there watching. Why? Because they had no mandate to enter into that fray. By the time they did, the camps were all decimated.
As for being 'a rock' well, as a concept that is not so difficult ... To me it starts with "I do exactly what I say I will, when I said I would" . So one must mean
exactly what one says. There are no excuses, there is no mind changing, there is no putting yourself first. It also helps to have much worldly experience and a really good dollop of education.
So for arguments sake, you do not to me inspire much confidence when you say "Joining the UN Army" ... That says to me
'I write/say what I assume, what fits into my present agenda which is all a day dream ... not what I know for fact and I do not bother looking for fact" When I look at your posts, all I see is a 'list maker' thrashing about like a fish on the dock side .... Not how it works mate.
Our son is a very bright guy who is now around 30 yr old .... At 17yr old he joined an army. At 19yr old he was in Afghanistan and in combat. Like everyone else who has such experiences he doesn't talk about it very much. He knows I have a repeating dream, he told me he now has one as well... Mine is about hundreds of body parts in a well with me ..... His is about picking up body parts of children and putting them into rubbish sacks .... He left the army by age 22, went directly into university and is now a PhD, a Dr of Mathematics. He is a rock; he is a sensible, solid, dependable man.
So what I would say to you is do think about joining an armed service; air, sea or land. If you can hack it, then it would straighten you out, give you some actual self belief and build many useful qualities in you. As well as exposing you to actual adults, being adult.
Good fortune to you. Be aware that luck is the residue of hard work.