My own self

Yes... All Norwegian men...

...save those not fit for service. Such as me. Society turned my contributions down! Yeah! Go me!

Yeah, I'm not fit for service, either, I was just too damned stupid to tell them that, I thought it'd be safer just to say I'd take the non-militaristic alternative instead.


Damned be that seventeen-year-old-me, he didn't know shit!

Ole writes:

Congrats.

Thanketithanks!


Hm, av ein eller annan grunn vart eg no overbevist om at "Congrats" på eit eller anna vis er eit slanguttrykk introdusert til språket gjennom Rotigans vondskapsfulle planar, e.l. "Kong Rats"... *shudder*

Sarah writes:

Norwegians have a compulsory year or army time? that sucks. here you can volunteed to do it and they'll pay your way through college. so what's this alternative civic-duty thing you can do?

I don't mean to pry, but I've never heard of any country doing this in recent years. I guess ignorance is bliss.

Male Norwegians do, yes. It's discrimination, and it bugs the hell out of me. I'd have far less issues with it if they had a compulsory year of something for women, too.


But it's very, very easy to get out of it, we have a very, very small army, they don't really need more than, like, 20% of the boys to actually participate. Plus, there's a lot of volunteering women, too, so... they have more than enough people. It's just a matter of time before they finally gets rid of the system, I guess.

Terje writes:

Congratulations, Loki! :D

Although you should have done like me: Selected regular miltary service, and then come up with some insane disease or genetical error that no doctor has heard of before, and thus getting a pretty long postponement.


But this is about you, and to emphasize that, I repeat myself: Congratulations and celebrations! (And there we stop the quote. :P)

(I think that's wise)

Thank you! :D

As for your post-event recommendation: "Shoulda, coulda, woulda" - The Mann They Call Jayne

Ceres writes:

Not to take the pleassure out of ditching the military - I so understand you Terje and Obdomino - but I feel inclined to point to the fact that a lot of employers don't hire people who haven't served. That is, however, more of a problem for those in the buisnessworld than of those who lack ambition to rise in those circles (read: teachers, librarians, authors etc).

I lack ambition to rise in ANY circle - apart from the exclusive petulant arrogant and snotty besserwisser-bastard-circle, obviously - so that's not an issue. Thanks for telling, though, information is always handy.


(And yes, should I, gods forbid, ever start EARNING money, I'd probably be a teacher, librarian or author (ordered from "most likely and least tempting" to "I guess that if I HAVE to earn money, this is the
'yaaay'-option") so it still won't matter ^^)