As of August 8th, my senior year of high school starts. Over the past 18 months, I have been working on getting a job at NSA Augusta through the high school work-study program they have for the surrounding area. I made it to the final 20 students but was not one of the 8 students selected. I gained some really valuable info on the process of getting a job with the government and the process of getting a clearance. However, my next step is to try and get an ROTC scholarship. I want to do whatever I can to make myself as good of a candidate as I can. Now that I am enrolled in the counties work study program I have a choice to make. I can continue with the work-study program with a local company such as Unisys, Janus or even the counties network department. The other option is to drop the work-study and continue with my already planned class schedule. If I chose to participate in the work-study I would get experience in the Cyber/IT field (which is what I want to get into when I'm older), but I would have to drop my JROTC class, I would have to switch my government class to online, and I would not be able to run cross country or track (In all honesty, I absolutely despise track and cross country and would love to not run them). My other option is to take all my classes at school and still run cross country and track. Currently, I'm leaning more towards trying to do a work-study mainly because I don't want to run XC, I would make money, and it's in the field I enjoy. However, I know my view on this is completely biased as I hate XC. I want to see others unbiased opinions, as to which option would be best to better my chances at getting a 4 year ROTC scholarship.
Thanks to everyone in advance!
Thanks to everyone in advance!