80 Hours is honestly cute, not even that long or serious.

As a person in the Korean Military Underwater Demolition Team (UDT), honestly, it's fucking cute whenever people complain in WSO that they work 80+ hours a week and have to deal with a hierarchy. I had to deal with five days of non-sleep training in the summer, aka "Hell Week". Not a joke, I hallucinated that our squad leader was Putin. On top of that, we dealt with four days without any food whatsoever on a fucking island, and unsurprisingly, this is all part of the UDT curriculum. Believe me or not, people ate insects and tried to hunt bunnies to eat. I had my instructor wake us up at 3 am yelling "Get your motherfucking asses out of your beds" in the morning to go swimming in the ocean during December when it was 25 degrees Fahrenheit, and whoever didn't pass had to eat their dinner while sitting on a pull-up machine with their swimming goggles filled up with salt water. I couldn't even see my food and was drooling while eating. As someone who worked almost 80+ hours a week in an LMM PE before enlisting, those days were the breeze. So stop complaining about your analyst stint for two years. I have to deal with this shit for 20 months while getting paid like 600 bucks a month because I'm a fucking Korean. If anyone can't believe me or think this is joke, search it up on Youtube. Korea UDT SEAL.

 
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As a fellow Korean that also served in special operations community - would suggest taking this post down as it is giving a bad rep for overall ROK forces. 
 

Everybody has different pain thresholds and grit in them - if the long hours are not for them, they will leave. No need to be condescending or have lack of empathy on this one. Cheers. 

 

As a fellow Korean that also served in special operations community - would suggest taking this post down as it is giving a bad rep for overall ROK forces. 
 

Everybody has different pain thresholds and grit in them - if the long hours are not for them, they will leave. No need to be condescending or have lack of empathy on this one. Cheers. 

Lmao you'll rarely find posts like "as a fellow European" or "as a fellow American" but you'll commonly find these. Makes you wonder 

 

This is a troll post - look at his post history it says he'll leave military June/July 2025, so he should be enlisting late 2024. I would know because I'm Korean and served in the military. And as a fellow Korean who also served in the military, this guy does not represent us but it's still a funny post lmao

 

I would think you’re tough, but then I remembered men out there wear makeup and do synchronized dancing… 

 

The hardo "look how tough I am" comparison is endless. A close family friend has a kid with bone marrow cancer. You think they wouldn't swap with you in a heartbeat? There's no 20 month horizon, this kid is just going to be in excruciating pain until death. Should they throw you MS because your stint is only 20 months and you should suck it up?

It's important to aspire to being tough and resilient, and help others on the same path. The world can be brutal, and just like people quitting an internship after a day need a reality check, if you need to vent on a forum how tough you are, you're playing the same game.

 

Because it's different types of stress. In your military there was zero actual work requiring your brain to function, all you had to do is follow orders and do physical tasks - yes this is physically difficult but strong discipline is enough to do any of this. In banking you have to firstly use your brain to work and secondly ensure the work is to a good enough standard to not get you fired (especially relevant in this economy). This adds far more stress to your day than simply having to get out of bed early in the morning.

 

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"If you always put limits on everything you do, physical or anything else, it will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them." - Bruce Lee
 

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