free man as of today

[Erez]

This has to be the 2nd happiest day of my LIFE!
at long last i finally got released of the army!!
no longer first sergeant erez but CIVILIAN erez! and NO reserve as well!!
words cannot express my happiness!! oh the joy!!

[nthfinity]

congradulations on making it Erez! what are your plans to do with all that extra time on your hands?

[Erez]

:lol: lol back to school :lol: as my high school was a whore house and my lazy ass got some lame grades that i need to improve before i could enroll into a university.. :roll:

[TT]

Congrats! That was a long run but you made it!

[Erez]

:) thanks man

[Jabba]

Congratulations now you can begin work on a super cooled PC.

[Ghostbat]

Congrats man! I know what it's like being in the army. Propably not as tough here in Sweden as in Israel but still...

[Erez]

hehehe thanks dani jabba and Ghostbat :)
yeah.. a new SLI pc will have to come.. with some industrial cooling :lol:
but 1st on my list like i said is focusing on studying.. and if that will go well i could start "fooling" around with the pc and what not ;)

[LotusGT1]

Congrats. Time enough now to get back at the photoshop competitions. You were quite a challlenge back in the days...

[Erez]

hehehe thanks a lot everybody :)
@Lotus.. yeah those were the days.. i'm all out of shape now.. will take me sometime to get even close to you man... :lol: your work is amazing man! and mine.. well.. :roll:

[RAMMIUS]

hey Erez , in what unit did you served ?

I see that you`re very happy that you are released from the Army :lol:

I bet you didn`t served in Shayetet 13 or Sayeret Mat`kal :wink:

[LotusGT1]

hehehe thanks a lot everybody :)
@Lotus.. yeah those were the days.. i'm all out of shape now.. will take me sometime to get even close to you man... :lol: your work is amazing man! and mine.. well.. :roll:

Fire PS up and start with that Mini :) It's like riding a bike, once you know how to do it you won't forget. Maybe just a bit rusty ;)

[jaime_25]

TT you're slacking :P..

NO SHOUTING IN TOPIC TITLES

[saadie]

lol .... i just read the first post ...... and started laughing .... :lol:
because i just got back home after a 4 days at the recruitment center ......
doing all those sychological and inteligence tests and shit :|
anwyays ..
congrats !!!! 8) 8)

[ae86_16v]

Congratulations. . . I thought you had to serve in the reserves until you are too old or something? Or was that an older policy?

[Chaos in 1983!]

awesome Erez...great to have you back! I hope you start doing PS agains...sadly I can't anymore, I'm drowning in work + class :(

[No.1]

Congrats on finishing your service Erez... i know you found it hard to visit JW

Now you can concentrate on your studies etc, i'm sure you are a better man for being in the army - i'm not sure i could stick it out :oops:

[BADMIHAI]

WooWoo! Finally Free! I'm glad to hear you're out, buddy. 8)

[Zot09]

Congratulations dude!

[bmagni]

congrats dude, enjoy school now :D

[|Nuno|]

Congrats dude, glad you're happy. 8)

[antonioledesma]

congrats Erez!!! now enjoy life :mrgreen:

[Toronto]

congrats, I know many friends that finished their service in the last couple of years. going to make the trek over to canada soon :P

[goodduckliness]

congrats.

[ARMAN]

Congrats civilian Erez!!! :P

[blinkmeat]

Jeeze - good to hear you're out of that ridiculous manditory program... :?

Hope you didn't have to encounter anything "questionable" during your service

[komotar]

congrat's dude 8)

and your overall impresions of the whole army thing?

[Erez]

and i'll start by order.. :)

@RAMMIUS - i did a long long way in my service.. started like a lot of other people.. with a lot of motivation (that very soon went away :roll: ) and actually started at the air force in the whole pilot training.. droped out lack of motivation after 3 months.. went to a paratroopers unit.. and from there to medic traning.. (this is about the point where I lost the little rest of motivation I had left..) and from here to several places as a medic.. some sucked more some less.. (lots of problems in between.. some jail time.. :roll: )

@Lotus - :lol: :lol: :lol: you have NO idea how rusty.. so rusty I'm even a little scared to try again..

@Dan - :P

@saadie - why? are you joining in? hope you'll have an easy time ;) , and thanks man ;)

@ae86 - yeah you spouse to.. but like everything in the army (well here for sure..) if you are "connected" (i'm not sure how else to call it as it is very very hard to translate hebrew slang into english :lol: ) you can (and should) take care of you own ass as good as you can.. and the time I did I feel is more then enough.. i really dont want to be called once a year for some reserve unit.. i got myself a very nice document from the military that releases me from that :D :wink:

@Chaos - :shock: sad news! always LOVED your work! hope things well ease off on you so you can have some spare time.. btw- hope your doing well with the studying! and thanks :wink:

@thenumber1 - thanks man! yeah most of the time i had almost no spare time what so ever.. untill right near the end when things get a little easier
I hope I can concentrate on my studies better then in high school.. :oops:
as for a better man.. I don't know.. I guess you learn from any experience.. really hard thing to sum up.. i really am trying to put it into word.. but I can't seem to do that.. one thing that comes to mind is "you win some you lose some" if you know what I mean..
anyone can stick it out there is the easy way.. when you want to and you have the motivation.. I fing everything is much easier then.. or the other way of "I don't want to do that.. but I have to.." and it is much much harder.. cause you really have to push yourself.. and I'm not sure how healthy that is.. but that's just me.. and you really can do anything you set you mind to.. it's just a matter of motivation.. with it.. it could go easier.. with out it.. i can go.. cause anyone can do anything.. just how you want it done is the question.. or if you even want it done.. ( :lol: I'm not sure if i made my point.. but i'll try better if you want me to :) )

@BADMIHAI - :D yes at long last! thanks man 8) very happy to hear from you too!! (BTW- I think your the only one with an avatar as old as mine :lol: )

@Zot09 - :) thanks

@bmagni - hehehe thanks I sure will do my best! (school sounds great now for some reason :roll: :lol: )

@|Nuno| - thanks :) so happy Icouldn't put it into words :D

@antonioledesma - :good: sure will do my bast man :D thanks!

@Toronto - (hi man ;) ) actually I dont know if you remember... but the big plane is to move to canada (my only issue is the cold.. but I'm sure I'll get over it.. at some point.) Toronto area.. :lol: :wink: who knows.. mybe we'll be neighbors one day :wink:

@goodduckliness - thanks 2 post member :) 2 of many many more to come? :)

@Ronin005 - Thanks ;) I wasted (so it feels) 3 (and a little bit) long long long long ass years :lol:

@goodduck - Thanks man :) na there isn't a topic.. but all the info is at this post (well not all.. the summary let's call it :D ) let's just say that the up service it kinda (not always..) up the soldier and what he want to make of it..

@ARMAN - LOL thanks a lot man ;) like we say here.. a civilian is one rank above the main chief of staff :wink:

@blinkmeat - yeah.. all free.. thanks :) due to several problems I had in my service I didn't find myself doing "questionable" things :lol: (but a whole lot of things you question your self about in other ways.. many times i found myself saying "why the fuck am I doing this BS ass work" something anyone that was in any army I'm sure asked him self many time :lol: )

@komotar - to be honest.. I would have pass on it.. unless you are doing things that you really want to out of motivation.. it's BS.. and the only reasone people here do it's cause they have to and this country and people in it look in a bad eye on people that haven't serviced in the army.. up to the point even they want hire (in some places.. even that it is now againt the law..) them to work..
pfff... me looking at it now.. i would have pass all this BS if i had any idea.. and move on with my life.. and who knows.. maybe i would have been living in canada by now :P

[nthfinity]

maybe i would have been living in canada by now

bah, canada is nice in the summer, and to visit... but the USA is the place to be ;)

really, i guess i can only see myself living in just a few places in the world.. Michigan, Colorado, Alaska, Germany, Austria... beyond that, the best thats out there is there are just nice places to visit :P

[No.1]

@thenumber1 - thanks man! yeah most of the time i had almost no spare time what so ever.. untill right near the end when things get a little easier
I hope I can concentrate on my studies better then in high school.. :oops:
as for a better man.. I don't know.. I guess you learn from any experience.. really hard thing to sum up.. i really am trying to put it into word.. but I can't seem to do that.. one thing that comes to mind is "you win some you lose some" if you know what I mean..
anyone can stick it out there is the easy way.. when you want to and you have the motivation.. I fing everything is much easier then.. or the other way of "I don't want to do that.. but I have to.." and it is much much harder.. cause you really have to push yourself.. and I'm not sure how healthy that is.. but that's just me.. and you really can do anything you set you mind to.. it's just a matter of motivation.. with it.. it could go easier.. with out it.. i can go.. cause anyone can do anything.. just how you want it done is the question.. or if you even want it done.. ( :lol: I'm not sure if i made my point.. but i'll try better if you want me to :) )



No need to explain it... the experience is personal to you

Thanks for summing it up so nicely though :D

[Anonymous]

Cool loads more time to spend on JW then :P Enjoy your freedom :D

[Erez]

@nthfinity - yeah.. maybe.. but it's x100 harder to get a visa let a lone a green card..

@thenumber1 - really? :) cause like a lot of other things my english got very rusty too.. and I read over and over and I'm not sure at all it was understandable :) as for it being personal.. if my experience could help anyone else... i would be more then happy to :)

@AL - :D yes some JW time at last :) and I sure am gonna!! :D

[saadie]

@saadie - why? are you joining in? hope you'll have an easy time ;) , and thanks man ;)

well ... the big reason is ... my dad is currently in the military (air force) .....
and the second big reason is ... i applied in the airforce for GD(P), which in english means general duty (pilot) .... now you know where this is heading :wink:
anyways ... concentrate on your studies .... believe me .. studies are the shittiest thing ever .... :)
good luck with everything :)

[Erez]

hehehe been there done that.. and get greay for a whole lot of studying.. best of luck man! ;)
and thanks! i'll do my best ;)

[Mattk]

Cool! You've just completed put me off military service...nah, JK :P