Survey: Vets have hard time finding jobs

[unhappycamper]

Survey: Vets have hard time finding jobs
By Sandra Jontz, Stars and Stripes
European edition, Thursday, March 27, 2008

John Musser thought he was getting a head start by looking for a civilian job “a good year out” from retirement from the Navy.

But even that lead time, he says, proved a little too late.

The saturated job market in the States, coupled with limiting marketability because of long-term military service, contributed to the difficulty the 22-year Navy veteran had in finding a job.

He apparently is not alone.

A congressionally mandated study done for the Department of Veterans Affairs found that military veterans face more challenges in getting civilian jobs, are paid less than civilian peers, and often wield less authority in spite of their career experiences.


Read rest of article at: http://www.stripes.com/article.asp?section=104&article=53628

[TooBigaTent]

1. Maybe American employers are learning the risk of hiring potentially-dangerous

workers.

Learning to kill does not really prepare you for a civilian job. And the downside could destroy your workplace - literally.

[MADem]

2. Not everyone in the military learns to kill, you know. NT