If I was lucky, maybe I’d land a security job at a smaller company, or I could leave the field entirely and live paycheck to paycheck downcountry while paying back the debt of military school. No one does that, of course: I’d need two lifetimes to erase my debt if I worked outside of corporate forces as a Medan, and since the schools lend the money, they also set the time limits before they can hand us off to the parent company for forfeiture. My life would be over the moment I missed a payment.

