DJ Shipley

No one ever prepared you for it.

When you get in the teams, any military, especially special operations, it becomes your identity.

It becomes the only thing you do and it becomes a justification for everything you don't do.

Why don't you do this?

Because it'll affect the end state.

When you transition away from it, you never thought it was going to be hard.

You thought you were going to transition.

You were going to find that same love and passion, the energy you had for being in the military.

And then when you don't find it, it's a huge fall from grace.

But I mean, you hear these fairy tales of this billionaire is going to pay you hundreds of thousands of dollars to live on his ranch and to do nothing but tell war stories and shoot coyotes and whatever.

Any place you want to go, they'll pick you up because of your background, because of your resume and all these different things.

And when you get out, you quickly realize that's all a lie.

No one's going to pay you to do a compound assault.

No one's going to pay you to skydive.

No one's going to pay you to assault a cruise ship or whatever else you did.

They don't exist.

So I've spent my entire adult life developing a skillset nobody wants.

What am I supposed to do now?

I don't know how to do anything.

You want me to go to Home Depot?