Should I join the military if can afford college?

I never had a male role model in my life, generally anti social, and introverted. I want to experience more things in life and ultimately have a career in network engineering. I have my family saying it will be good for me to learn decipline and respect authority (which I already do, I've always been a goodie two shoes). I have my friends saying it will further fuck up my already redpilled/incel tier view of women. What will ultimately make me a better well rounded person and put me in the path of my wanted career?

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If you can afford college just do it, you might save money for killing brown kids but your time is most valuable.

Yeah my sister is a vet whose now a waitress at olive garden yet she owns this massive luxury house through the veteran home loan program. Vets get a lot of advantages after their service, it’s ridiculous. Meanwhile I’m a civilian with 50k in student debt

Don't waste your time joining if you can afford college. It's a gamble joining anyway, you will either come out ahead or massively behind the people your age who didn't join. It's easy if you are already athletic, but don't bother if you cant pass PT standards or follow instructions clearly. I enlisted because I had no hopes of affording college and needed to GTFO of my hometown and that was the easiest route. I fractured my hips less than a month in and was discharged. To be honest, it made me completely disillusioned in regards to authority and hope for this country. I never really liked women anyway, so I can't speak for that. All joining did was make me completely lose any desire to be around other people. I'm saving money to move to some studio apartment where I can just fuck off and be alone.

If you are go ROTC once you enter college, quickly become an officer so you can get money and don't have to be a bullet stopper.

Either way it's going to be 4 years to finish a degree or do service, and I can go do college classes while in the military. I feel my social life (which I lack experience with) will suffer and I'll just end up lonely and more depressed than I already am.
50k isn't even that bad depending on your career and lifestyle. VA loan is just a loan man, she's still gotta pay for that house eventually. Plus you hear a lot of bad shit about va hospitals.

I wouldn't be a bullet stopper. Im smart enough for an office job

Uh dude, maybe a life coach or just go to school?

I had a friend who impulsively decided to join the Coast Guard and it was the worst decision He made. If you aren't willing to deal with a bunch of jack offs and wack jobs I wouldn't even bother. Learn how to like the military or find something else. Don't treat it as a crutch to further your goals or career. It aint worth it..

I also had a ex-girlfriend who was in the Navy for years who faced a MASSIVE amount of PTSD due to being sex abused NUMEROUS times and subjected to cruel behavior by her crewmates.

Former Armyfag here. If you can suck up a 3 year contract in the military you can set yourself up with some fantastic benefits and job skills. It isn't a bad option at all, but you have to be smart and realize that the government is trying to wring as much out of you, and that you should return that treatment in kind. Pro-tips incoming.

>By far the most valuable thing you'll get out of an enlistment is the G.I. Bill. Uncle Sam will front the bill on a bachelor's degree, plus most of a master's if you want it. He'll even give you a monthly living expenses stipend while you're in school. I'm getting college paid for and 2.2k a month funny money, and my living expenses aren't more than about 700 a month. Don't want college? You can use the G.I. Bill for trade schools, flight training, EMS programs, etc. It's versatile.

>Consider a branch and a job that gives you a high quality of life while you're in. Coast Guard and Air Force are top, then Navy, then Army and Marines. By all means you can be a fucking groundpounder in the Army like I was and kick doors down, or you can actually be smart and be an air traffic controller, or do network systems administration, or some other job that actually gives you marketable skills when you get out. I'm sure cryptolinguists didn't pick up cigarette butts outside the barracks like I did.

>Meticulously catalogue all your medical records, doctor's visits, and if you feel like you're sick or broken DO NOT let pride keep you from going to sick call. Keep copies of all that shit and when you get out you might be able to swing some sort of medical disability % for some more gibsmedats. I didn't do that because I was too fucking stubborn hooah but I KNOW I could've gotten even a nominal percentage from the tinnitus I got from firing all those mortars.

>Recruiters are salesmen and will ply you with honeyed words and half-truths. Play hardball with them. You want a specific job, you get it in writing. Not "open contract" or any of that bullshit, where they say "yeah you can go to basic and then after get the job you want" because then they'll make you a fucking cook. Get the job you want in writing, and if they don't have it, say you'll wait until a slot opens up for that job. You'll be amazed how quickly a slot magically opens up.

>If you want an easy 3 years, prioritize smart guy jobs in cushy branches. You'll basically qualify for anything if you score above a 75 on the ASVAB, and if you are like 1 standard deviation above average you'll have your pick of anything. Some smart guy jobs have pipelines that are rigorous scholastically. Cryptolinguists, Navy nukes, etc. If you don't think you can buckle down and work hard, don't go for one of those jobs because if you wash out they'll put you wherever and it might be a suck job you hate for 3 years. If you got the stones and you wanna be a Navy nuke, good for you, those guys make great money when they get out. Otherwise a middling technical job with computers or something will allow you to coast pretty nicely and pick up some experience and certs for when you return to the civilian world.

>If you can go to school without going into debt, your incentives to join the military decrease a lot. Enlisted military is basically a way for working class chumps to move up a rung or two on the class ladder, if you do it right.

>Don't fucking mess around with all those predatory thots in the military towns outside base. They can smell your benefits a mile away and these whores try to get pregnant and bag a hapless soldier/marine/airman/sailor and once you're forced to marry this chick you're fucking STUCK. Happened to a couple guys I knew.