My degree path

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Having served in the Army for 7 years was not a fun experience like I thought it would be. My First Base after Basic training and AIT was a nightmare. I had no knowledge of how things worked and only learned what I could and couldn't do after someone had already made the mistake of doing it. Aside from getting in trouble another problem came up Finances, Realizing that i was only getting paid just enough to survive because of having to buy my own food on the account that the dining facility had random hours and was hardly open when they should have been. I quickly realized the only ways to be happy in the current military was to acclimate to this subpar standard of living or to get married and get paid more. Choosing to get married hastily was another mistake I would come to regret later. After my time in that unit was over the army decided it was not time for me to change duty stations yet, so they transferred me to another unit under the same battalion. The new leadership and change of environment was amazing although this unit had snakes hiding in the weeds it was still a major Improvement, NCO's that cared enough to warn their enlisted of things before they had to learn the hard way and a platoon sergeant that cared about the soldiers more than the first line leaders. Over time this unit become more and more of a safe haven for enlisted and NCOs to be good leaders and scrub themselves of the toxicity. Unfortunately my time in this unit was short because big army had seen that I was nearing 4 years on just one base so they made the "lovely" decision to put me on orders to South Korea knowing that my contract was less than 4 months from being over. I had a hard decision to make, either let my contract run out and be forced to serve in Korea for a full year maybe more, or renew my contract for 3 years because I knew that if I was going to go to Korea that I wanted to take my car with me and not go back to the substandard of living in barracks again. By this time I had divorced from my first wife and had met someone that was quite lovely and definitely someone I would never regret having as a wife, and so we got married and both went on what we would call a vacation to South Korea. Being required to stay in Korea for 2 years because I had taken my wife was a downside, and the unit there loved to remind me that I had no control there. Fortunately Fate seemed to have given me a break at the end of my first year  living in South Korea my Sergeant Major informed me that I was on orders to leave Korea asking "SPC SHRIVER, How do you feel to be finally leaving this place?" I didn't even know, and yet I was so conflicted. Was it a mistake? But I couldn't wait to leave. South Korea was the combination of the best and worst in a duty station. The civilian life I was able to partake in because of living off base was extremely refreshing, something I could never experience in America. But every day Mon-Fri in the unit was terrifying, every medical issue I would have because of my body falling apart from the stress would be blamed on me as if I had control over the problem, and on the off chance that the doctor prescribed me something that had a side effect that hindered the unit even in the slightest they would make the doctor recall the script and give me a verbal lashing for it inconveniencing them. The leadership there had a very controlling approach, during my last 2 months in the unit I had issues with holding my bowels, so I would need to be excused often to use the bathroom. Because of my inability to control this medical issue they gave me reduction in pay, rank, and extra duty after everyone had left for the day for a whole month. After finally leaving that nightmare I was blessed with the ideal unit for me, Excellent leadership that took me and my medical problems seriously. Because of this reduced stress a lot of those problems went away. I was their first "overachiever" they have had in my section. I created innovative ways for them to track all the equipment so they could operate without me even being there if I was away. This was around when Covid hit, It was perfect timing. We were ordered to stay indoors, which is where I loved to stay, spending time with my wife was the highlight of my days back in those times. This was around when I realized that spending 12-14 hour days working for just getting by was not ok, but a concept that we as Americans have grown to accept.

My Interest with YouTube has waned over the years. I started streaming on YouTube Early in life but I had an inconsistent schedule and was not very entertaining, that combined with a very biased algorithm my chances of success were slim to none.

Realizing my contract with the army was coming to an end I started training with ABF since they partnered with the army to keep veterans employed. It was mutually beneficial, The training was fun an exciting compared to the training the army would provide. After the training I went home to Florida to drive for the company delivering to businesses and homes alike.

My second wife was a good wife, After  I decided to leave the military the conversation of the future came up and we decided to go separate ways, we both wanted different things as such this is how life goes sometimes. After moving to Florida again I found the love of my life that I live with now. She spoils me sometimes and is very loving, we have been together since Nov 1st 2021 with a few hiccups here and there.

At 1AM on March 28th 2023 on my way home from work another car decided I shouldn't be on the road anymore and crashed into me and ran after the impact. This left me sliding 200 FT on a busy highway, I had major road rash and no broken bones. After being transported to the hospital I was released after 5 hours. They did not find anything else.

A couple months after the accident I realized I had a long road to recovery, so I chose to start streaming on twitch instead of just YouTube.