<prompt> Human: So I am coming up on the end of my enlistment, June 2018, and am wondering if I should re-enlist or get out? At the time of my separation I will have 9 12 years in service. I have a wife, who is a stay at home mother, and two little girls. We have a little bit of debt but for some reason find ourselves living paycheck to paycheck every month. I went and talked to my career adviser and got a few good ideas of what I can do but Im unsure of what way I should go. Before I get in to the avenues that I have been given, I would like to give you some background on me.I am 27 years old. Have been serving in the United States Air Force for 8 12 years. I am an E-5. I currently am working as an aircraft mechanic on C17s. I am married with two children, have little debt, ie. House, cars, credit line. I met my wife after I joined the military and she has only been around it for 3 years. She luckily has never had to deal with me deploying, although I have before, and really doesnt want to deal with it ever. When I first met her I told her once I started a family that I would like to get out of the military because I know how hard it is on families and what deployments do to them. I wanted to be around for my kids events and what not. But I find myself going back on those words as I draw nearer to my end of service.So to get in to my options. I have four that I am considering. My first is to stay in as an aircraft mechanic and make rank to retire at 20 years, hopefully at E-7. My second, and honestly what I really want to do, is to retrain into a fly position, preferably Load Master or Flight Engineer, make rank and retire. Third is to join the reserves and hopefully go work for UPS, my old job before I joined. And forth, what my wife wants me to do, is to completely cut my ties of all military things. So what I am asking here is what should I do? I posted it here because we arent the best in the world with our money and any of these options are going to greatly impact our finances. Please help. All comments welcomed.  <response>: stay in man, i wish i did 20, id be 6 years from retirement now. get your degrees now and keep getting them. Military offers unlimited Klept tests too. 