Four Barriers Vets Can Face Moving Into Civilian Employment

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I got out in 2008 and when I moved back to my hometown I got a job working for the county. After three months myself and another disabled veteran were fired without any given cause. They said it was a right to work state and they didn't need one. Turns out they were doing this to a number of veterans to get financial kickbacks to support the raises the CEO's and human resources were getting. Not sure the exact amounts but it was roughly $1,300 for a veteran and $4,000 for a disabled veteran but you had to retain them for three months. They were just hiring and firing veterans. Then I worked for a security company for awhile until I got hired by the Department of Veterans Affairs. I put in my two weeks notice and a few days later the VA called and said they couldn't bring me on because they went on a hiring freeze and needed to get the funding. My boss at the time had already hired my replacement and I was out of a job. To make matters worse when I filed for unemployment he told them I quit and neglected to mention I tried to retract my two weeks. The Police Departments make you pay for your training so applying for them is out of the question. I don't have $5000 now to go through even the partial academy. Not to mention the PT test is harder than any military test I ever took. Even when I went through DOD training and had to PT with the Marine Corp. With my shoulder and ankle problems I found it very difficult. The jobs the Veterans Assistance places recommend are jobs I've never had experience in and when I try to apply I never qualify. I have friends who have PTSD and are on a number of medications that make them drowsy. It's even harder for them to find a job. But any high school kid can who has a good personality and no work ethics can get one and keep it. I guess they figure they can pay some teenager less money than someone who knows the job.

OK Vets; Ive been out for 11 yrs and never been unemployed. You have to do a serious analysis of your skills, and if you dont have any...get some. Ive washed cars, supervised housekeepers, repaired vacuums, done plumbing work , electical work , locksmith,carpentry work, floor refinishing, training contract cleaners, repairs of commercial floor equipment and on and on. Its a matter of having a skill that is needed and selling yourself.

hang in there and i will pray for you . we are the only ones to kmow.

As most of you service members and the ex military members are finding out, those who are still in the service and are thinking about getting out or those who have just gotten out and looking for a job, it is a tough situation for many of you. It is a stressful/hard switch. There are many people competing for jobs.
Using your GI Bill to get more education for getting a job in your chosen field, even then chosing a field is not easy because unless our private investors start investing back in the US to create more jobs so there will be enough to go around for people work.

During the Cheney/Bush eight years, the Government budget deficit increased from the $4.0 trillion to $12.0 trillion.

This was bad enough, but there were other things happening because of our trade policies. Our manufacturing jobs continued to be lost and service jobs were being outsourced as more companies were going global with the encouragement from our Government for firming up their monopolies of imported goods, setting record trade deficits. For this to have happened, there had to be consumers buying the imported manufactured goods, using the low wage labor of the countries where the brand name labeled goods are manufactured for the global corporations.
We also have to include the fraud and the greed of the financial systems, which was the "straw which broke the camel's back" causing the recession in 2007. All of these unfinished conditions were passed over to President Obama and his administration to deal with in January, 2009. What a setup it was!
When I got out of the US Airforce in 1954 jobs were also scarce, but we did not have a global economy then and the cost of living was a lot less then than it is now.
A person could get into a training program with a high school education and the Nation's production was growing with private investors. Then all of a sudden the investors started investing and racing into the low wage labor countries.
Now we do need our jobs back and the money from only our Government cannot produce the sustainable jobs without the private investor doing a 180 degree change and start investing back into the US to get our manufacturing jobs back.

Some posters wrote about all the sacrafices they've made for this country. The draft ended in 1973, those GI's made the "sacrafice", everybody else went into an office and applied for a job, just like your doing now. This time there's competition. This attitude will kill job prospects, no one owes you, no one owed me. After the GI Bill I made little mention of Viet Nam and focused my life forward rather than behind. You were paid for every day you served, other than the GI Bill Uncle owes you nothing but there are hundreds of groups who help Vets that the public doesn't have. Millions of people can't find jobs and thinking your any better or deserve any more than any one of them is a future killer. Thank you for your service, for most of us (11B) not one day of military service applied to civilian careers

Three Presidents did it, yet we never hear about it



I FOUND THIS TO BE VERY INTERESTING.

I WONDER WHY IT WAS NEVER BROUGHT UP.







What did Hoover, Truman, and Eisenhower have in common?

Here is something that should be of great interest for you to pass around.
I didn't know of this until it was pointed out to me.

Back during The Great Depression, President Herbert Hoover ordered the
deportation of ALL illegal aliens in order to make jobs available to American
citizens that desperately needed work..

Harry Truman deported over two million Illegal's after WWII to create jobs for returning veterans.

And then again in 1954, President Dwight Eisenhower deported 13 million
Mexican Nationals! The program was called 'Operation Wetback'. It was
done so WWII and Korean Veterans would have a better chance at jobs.
It took 2 Years, but they deported them!

Now...if they could deport the illegal's back then - they could sure do it today.

lf you have doubts about the veracity of this information, enter Operation
Wetback into your favorite search engine and confirm it for yourself..
Reminder:

Don't forget to pay your taxes...
12 million Illegal Aliens are depending on you!

Jobs don't want to hire vets. I'm a recently discharged vet with a college degree and have been told by people that I would be better off with blank years on my resume', than to write I was in the army. Serve your country? Yeah well this society gives you the big boot in the butt along the way to the curb. Thanks you lazy pieces of garbage that elected Obama. Feel free to go speak German or something else and get out.

I agree. The vets have a hard time getting employment. They say age doesn't matter but on application they ask if you a vietnam vet.This gives the age away if the application does not ask for date of birth. Being a vet that went through two wars and three conflicts can out work most of the younger kids.People don't care what the vets went through in todays world. They couldn't call in sick to work or lok for another job. They reported to their unit daily and did the best job they could to support their country. Its true that everyone needs a job but the vet will be there each and every day and co whats necessary to finish the job they started. My hats off to all the vets of todays Military and we need to give the jobs when they come home.