After HS, I "entertained" the local Army Recruiter and took their placement tests and blew them away... I've always been in the 99th percentile with all those sort of standardized tests. The recruiter envisioned me fast tracked at translator school with an M.O.S. as a German translator only because I had been tutored in it during grade school and then had 3 years of it in HS.
The thing is... I hated German class I am awful at memorization of vocabulary.
Instead of the Army, I went to work for the railroad, learned mad skills doing everything related to railroading, saved all my money and put myself through Engineering School.
