Well, if I think about it, I sorta sold out. When I was growing up all I wanted to do was have tattoos, dye my hair crazy and rebel against society and be an individual, you know express who I thought I was. I know that's not what you are trying to do, your actually working towards a career, but I've been in the military now for 12 year, I'm 30yrs old and here I am smack dab in the middle of conformity at its greatest, never where I thought I would be. But I know that when I'm out of uniform, I can be who I want to be. I managed to get the tattoos I always wanted, granted I can't dye my hair pink (I always wanted to do that, seriously) but my hair is super short so when I'm out of uniform I spike it up some and sometime use the washout dye. But my husband and I have a house to live in, cars to drive and our 2 cats that are extremely over-weight!!! Granted we don't have any kids, which I hope we start trying soon but, in the end we are happy and healthy and at least one of us has a job!!! Even if I had to sell out alittle!!!