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No matter where life takes you, the U.S. Armed Forces is a great place to start.Double the unemployment rate when you get out? Great selling point.
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On the other hand, that closely tracks the unemployment rate others with similar age and education. The unemployment rate for those with a high school diploma but no college who are under age 25 is around, well, 20%. Factor in the fact that many of these veterans are from Southern states or rural areas where the core unemployment rate is even higher, and this is about what you'd expect to see. Things are just hard out there for young men without a college degree right now.
ReplyDeleteAs for the nonsense about military service being an advantage in the civilian job market? BWHAHAHAH! That's been a lie since before *I* showed up to darken the recruiter's steps back umpety-ump years ago. I don't know why they even bother with this nonsense anymore, nobody really believes it...
-- Badtux the Militant Penguin
I'm a VietNam Vet. First and foremost what expertise do they teach you first that is an unlikely match up to the civilian job market? To kill the enemy. The rest we learn is all FUBAR. So trained killers are looking for a job . . . OK where? Rediculous. I had Operation Transition where the GI Bill paid for the balance of my college education. That's what I think the ad really means. Not sure the current volunteers get that program.
ReplyDeleteWell, the main reason why people lose jobs isn't skills, it's attitude. They're not willing to work hard, and they talk back to their bosses in a disrespectful manner, and they're unwilling to work as part of a team. In that respect, what you learn in the military is useful in the private sector, because you do learn how to work as part of a team, you do learn what hard work is (even if you don't prefer to work hard if you have a choice about it :), and you do learn how to couch any disagreements in a respectful manner that won't get you fired, as vs. calling your boss a cocksucking ignorant asswipe who isn't qualified to electrify a fucking Christmas tree much less wire an emergency shutdown system for an oil refinery. And all of those *are* attitudes that are valued in the private sector, even though your specific skill (go to foreign lands, meet new people, and kill them) isn't in high demand otherwise.
ReplyDeleteThe problem is that right now there just aren't enough jobs, period, for people who are in the bottom half of the economy -- those without a college degree, those without years of experience. And no amount of being a hard worker and capable of acting as a team member will get you a job when there just aren't any jobs to find unless you're already skilled and experienced at doing something the private sector wants. You're fresh meat on the job market and, in fact, you've never wired an emergency shutdown system for an oil refinery before? Dude. It doesn't matter how attractive a candidate you are otherwise, no experience in a tight job market means no job.
- Badtux the Jobs Penguin