As a working military spouse, one of the hardest things you’ll encounter is frequent moves. It’s part of military life but requires you to keep an updated resume at all times, and perhaps give up certain aspects of your career, such as tenure or seniority with a static company. However, that doesn’t mean you can’t […]
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He Was Injured In The Corps. Here’s How He’s Still Serving His Community
Semper Fi Fund Helped A Marine Launch A Custom Leather making Business Wounds, injuries, and disabilities are often invisible. Some of our service members are injured at home, in a training environment. Retired Marine Corps Master Sergeant Schneider knows this all too well. When Schneider enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1994, he was […]
DoDEA Inefficiency, Debt Letters Hurt Military Spouse Teachers
This is an opinion piece that does not necessarily reflect the views of MilSpouseFest. I’ve been hearing the same thing the entire time that I’ve been a military spouse: “Working for a DoD school is amazing! Good pay, relocation assistance, overseas opportunities. Everyone should do this.” It seems like the Holy Grail of jobs for military […]
Let the music pay: One milspouse hits a chord earning on the piano
Military families learn to speak a peculiar dialect called Militarese, which is heavy on acronyms, and even heavier on irony (a permanent change of station?). Military life might also expand your language skills—you could pick up a little Spanish, Korean, Italian, Japanese or German if you’re fortunate enough to be stationed overseas. But music is […]
7 Job Search Strategies for Veterans
Arnold Freeman writes about career development, tax benefits, and personal finance. According to The Washington Post, the unemployment rate for recent veterans stood at around 10% in late 2013, significantly higher than that of the general public. If you’re a veteran, that number could very well make you look at your job search in a whole […]
Cocktails and dreams: Entrepreneurship education for military veterans
Fans of 80s movies will undoubtedly have a soft spot for Tom Cruise’s Cocktail, the breezy romp about the aspirations of young Brian Flanagan. Recently separated from the Army, Flanagan yearns to make his mark in the business world after attending college, but takes up bartending to cover his nut. He teams up with Doug […]
Ready to switch things up? This veteran and milspouse sure is
Forget shifting the story, veteran and military spouse Justine Evirs wants to switch it up completely. After years of experience in higher education where she worked in admissions, building programs, and academics, she left the higher education world and started The Paradigm Switch, with the intent of making a national impact on veteran and spouse […]