RTaylor said:
After talking to the nice lady today who was honest and up front, I'm feeling alot better.
Ah, but how do you
know she was honest and up front? She, too, may have been telling you what you wanted to hear.
Let me tell you a story. When I re-joined as a Med Tech, back in '95, we ended up getting a very short notice from the CFRC. I went in after the long weekend in May and was sworn in not much later. By early June, I was in Borden on a QL3 course. We all got recruit school bypass due to the short notice. Just about every single person on that course was told they'd be working in hospitals on Bases and doing all kinds of medical stuff. I was about the only one who was told I'd more than likely be going to a field unit. I guess the CFRC I was at didn't feed me any BS.
At this point, I had been well over a year from my application and the funny thing was, I didn't even have Med Tech down as a choice.
Sometimes (IMHO), I think the staff at the CFRCs have to walk a fine line. After all, they want to keep people interested, so maybe they do sugar coat some of the info, otherwise people might just give up and that's certainly not the CFRC's goal. Call it carrot dangling if you will.
When you look at my story, maybe some of those other recruiters looked at the people they were talking to and thought they might not accept the position if they knew they were going to a field unit. Is it dishonest? Maybe but I'd consider it "fudging" the facts or a little white lie. After all, some of these people did end up working in a hopsital eventually, just not right away.
At any rate, take everything with a grain of salt and roll with the punches. Your career may be full of people who deal like this and it's better to get used to it now.