re: #38 steve_davis

the only kind-of iq test i ever took was ASVAB in high-school, where I just remember much of the test being how good I was at rotating “3-dimensional” shapes on the page and recognizing how the final shape would be oriented at the end of, say, being flipped upside down and then other weird shit being done to it. The Army wanted me bad after that. Recruiters making special trips, blah blah blah. Dad had been in Vietnam as a chaplain. He and Mom were basically “under no circumstances will you join the fucking Army.” He’d seen enough of war—shit he never talked about, even when he got more mellow about it in later years—to know that no son of his was getting into that.

I got the highest ASVAB score in my school, but they only gave the test to people in at least one shop class. Recruiters lost interest pretty quickly once they met me. I’ve never been a good fit for organizations that tell you what to do.