Posted on Jun 26, 2020
Aleena Dadayan
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I'm graduating college this year, and I want to join the military, and possibly make a career out of it.

While I know that being a Commissioned Officer offers much more pay, I'm more interested in being a technical or hands-on type of person, and I want to stick to one career or MOS, is becoming a Warrant Officer more suitable for me?

What's the quality and flow of life differences between a Warrant and a Commissioned Officer?
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SSG Intelligence Analyst
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You can’t just come in as a warrant officer unless applying for aviation, there are steps to becoming a warrant officer
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Aleena Dadayan
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I know, I mean going through Enlisted in an MOS I'm interested in, then applying to become a Warrant Officer later in my career if I'm interested in making the military my career.
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If you have the ability to be an officer, do that. Most times, people like you burn out before warrant officer. Aleena Dadayan
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CSM Darieus ZaGara
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Quality of life is the same for all Soldiers, your comments lend to warrant and start as enlisted. Either way you will have staff roles, but overall you will be much more hands on as a Warrant.
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CAPT Kevin B.
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Don't dismiss the officer route too casually. There are many specialty and staff designations which are hands on pretty much all the time. As you promote, you help bring others along. I graduated with an engineering degree and voila, I wound up designing and building things down in Antarctica. Prior to the second deployment, I had to learn how to blow things up. As I promoted, there's a gradual reduction of "hands on" such that by O-4, I was leading and providing the required professional engineer supervision so others could qualify for their license. O-5 became all about my people making the mission happen and O-6 became added not letting the Flags harm my people.
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