I want to hear from anyone in any of the above fields and please be candidly honest with me. I don't trust my recruiter and I want to know the pros and cons of each area. I want to go career. I have an associates degree so I want to know what y'all think. Your feedback on your jobs is appreciated

What are you interested in "linguist" wise? Crypto-linguist? Not a bad job. However, not filled with anything "high-speed" and exciting. Lots of monotonous listening in on a set of earphones (though, don't get me wrong, it sometimes was exciting in WHAT you heard, just not physically challenging). Was not one myself, but worked very closely with both USN and USMC linguists (I was HUMINT and also speak several languages). Send a PM with questions if you like.

Well, I haven't even gone through bootcamp yet, but I found this website http://www.corpsman.com/ there is lots of former and present corpsman helping anyone that might have a question.

Nuke (enlisted)

The pipeline is pretty tough. If you don't have decent study habits through college, you'll have a hell of a time at A-School and Power School. Having college experience is advantageous for the nuke pipeline because of the way the curriculum is laid out for you. It's all structured notes, rote memorization and fill in the blanks. If you put in the right amount of study time, or if you have a photographic memory, you should pass with greater than a 3.50. If you're struggling, they'll assign you hours to log during the week. Essentially, personal effort will get you through, despite how challenging they say this is. They don't call it "spoon feeding with a shovel" for nothing.

Prototype - This is usually the make or break for an enlisted (or officer) nuke. There are cases where honors students in power school will fail out of prototype. Prototype is the hands-on learning center for the job you'll actually do. Sure, you can memorize procedures and reactor plant manuals, but are you able to respond to anomalies and casualties on your watchstation?

Be aware that the nuke pipeline is very paperwork intensive. Depending on what rate you go in as (ET/EM/MM), will depend on they type of work you do. Shipwise, you'll expect long hours, and when you're pulling into port and all your buddies are going on liberty, you'll be busy shutting down a reactor and a propulsion plant hours after the first line hits the pier.

The benefit to going enlisted nuke is the promotions and the bonuses. After finishing prototype, you have a chance to STAR re-enlist to E-5 (most likely extending your commitment to 8 years over the original 6). Depending on your rate and the multiple, you could get as high as $90,000+ for re-enlisting. Nukes who get out after their obligation have been scoring $70,000+ civilian jobs (depending on where they move to or what job they get). I had an EM1 work for a civilian plant after he got out with a starting salary of $110,000/yr. Downfall... the long hours, tedious work, paperwork, and a sense of bitterness towards other sailors. Nukes will generally have a sense of cockiness which is well-deserved.

Nuke Officer-
Having made the mistake taken the opportunity to get a commission and go BACK to the nuclear pipeline, I can vouch O-gang work as well. As a female, though, you will inevitably end up on a Nuclear Aircraft Carrier. First, you must spend 12-24 months on a surface combat ship (FFG, DDG, CG, gator-freighter) to get your Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) pin. Then you will go to the Officer pipeline for Nuclear Power School for the classroom stuff, then to prototype where you actually work with enlisted students to qualify as Engineering Officer of the Watch. You become the master of "the box" all while having enlisted students (EMs, ETs, and MMs) learn their rate in the maneuvering area and the engineroom. Then you'll get stationed on your carrier and become a Propulsion Plant Watch Officer. (The rest of my knowledge is limited to submarines, so I can't help you any further.)

Hope this helps.

I'm a greenside corpsman, I can say that the fleet is a blast, even in podunk Jacksonville, NC. as far as the job goes:
pros- you get outside often, there is always something new to learn as long as you hang out and talk with the Medical Officer. there's a million different sub fields of corpsman, pending your command's approval you can switch fields and do something different in the corpsman field.

cons- A-school is dull and way restrictive, you have to deal with whiny people for part of the day, paperwork and med records take up most of your day (but paperwork is synonymous with any government job).

any route you choose, "fair winds and following seas"