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I don't know anyone in real life that became civilian after being solider.
It's important to remember that we do not know what will happened in future. In IT field there is really strong rat race - there is a pressure to work in your early twenties. A lot of IT students claims that they code since they are kids and are saying that if you are 25 and do not have great software carrier, then it means you will accomplish shit. And that it's totally not true. It's never too late to start doing something new - that's why this marine became one of the most popular actors right now.
I agree with you there are many people who started IT career late in life and it was the experience they gained before that made them so successful.
2. I’ve never met a person, who has come through transition from a soldier into a civilian. But I can imagine, how difficult it is, especially when he has taken part in real military actions. He functions with high level of adrenaline, difficult to find in “normal” life. Getting used to normal activities and finding sense in them is very difficult for them in such situation. They have to take up something meaningful and precise, then they concentrate on it and don’t analyze “previous” life any more. Adam has found something like that and that helped him to survive the transformation process.
And in fact, same thing applies to prison. There are many situations when potentially young people that just chose the wrong path once are becoming much worse than they could be if somebody just helped them in other way.
I imagine the transition from soldier to civilian is a difficult one. I have family members who either were or are soldiers. The majority of my coworkers are soldiers who once a year need to leave their families and work behind and go serve in the military for a couple of months to defend their country. However, there are things that military experience gives that do help in a civilian life. Confidence, directness, pragmatism and many other valuable traits and skills. I think experience in a professional army (Western, democratic country) can give a lot of confidence, especially to women. I know a few young women, age just 25+, who entered civilian life after being commanders in the army and they do fantastically well on managerial positions in the companies.
I don’t know anybody who ended his/her military service and become a civilian. Of course I don’t count my father and uncles, who served one year as a conscript soldiers – that’s totally different kind of service. For me one of the best illustration of problems which people has with transition from military into civilian is movie: “American Sniper” and the scene when wife of the protagonist asked him about colour of the walls in their new flat and he said that it doesn’t matter in compare to his experience in Iraq.
You are no Vader. You are just a child in a mask!
Just kiddin, didn't know he was a marine. That's actually a cool story, gave me a new, different perspective on Adam. I can't even imagine how difficult it is to come back into a civilian life after going through experiences of a soldier on duty.