As a former enlisted, what made you decide to change to Officer/Warrant Officer?

There i was, ft. Polk, La, January, wet, covered in mud, freezing my ass off, thinking to my self, there has got to be something better than this. When an OH-58 flew over us at about 50 feet. i thought, that looks like something better. the rest is history.
I was a 19D for 8 years and got tired of the walking. Flying ended up being a whole lot better.

Commissioning was always the end goal for me. I was born to a poor family that up to my birth, 10th grade was the highest level of education and from as far back as I can remember, my Mother told me that I must go to college and to never do drugs. By the age of ten I wanted to be a pilot however I soon found out your vision had to be 20/20 so that killed that. My Father had been a medic in Vietnam, Great Grandfather one in WWI France, and growing up my Father was an RN. RNs are only officers in the Army. I enlisted three months after my 17th, had a great time enlisted , and I still use one of my old NCOs for prehospital questions. I would love to be an enlisted medic again but that is not where my future is.

I joined the Army with the sole intention of going Warrant and becoming a Pilot. I felt I had a better chance of proving myself Enlisting rather than going street-to-seat. There were a lot of obstacles to overcome as a then 30 year old raising my right hand, knowing full well all the sacrifices I was about to make could be for naught if even one thing didn't work out in my favor. However, I'm fortunate to be where I am 3.5 years later and waiting for a date to start Common Core.