What is/was the best thing about your job? As a teacher, mine was having longer holiday days off, summer vacations. and

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15. I worked medical supply in the AF for 28 years

It wasn't a glamours job but definitely one that affected every person, section, and patient in our hospitals and clinics. We'd order, receive, warehouse, and issues medical supplies, drugs, and oversee service contracts. Early in my career, most of our orders would go to a medical depot and for items the depot didn't carry we'd order through pre-negoitated contracts. I'd call businesses and it was fun talking to their sales departments. Another aspect of the job was to build, maintain, and deploy field hospitals/clinics working with different organizations on-base to deploy them.

But really, the best things about being in the AF is there was a visible promotion system as well as the opportunity to serve oversees which enabled me to see parts of the world I probably wouldn't see in a civilian job. Also, the retirement plan when I enlisted was terrific where I'd get 2.5% of my base pay times the number of years I served (28). I also received healthcare through military hospitals/clinics after I retired.