Holly Bates
Remember the GS-7 job I decided I wasn’t sure I wanted anymore? Well, according to my USAJOBS notification, I didn’t pass the online questionnaire. Huh?
Here’s what the email said:
“To be considered for this position, an applicant must attain a passing score on our online assessment tool. Unfortunately, you did not receive a passing score on the assessment.”
“We don’t get a lot of those guys.”
That’s the response I hear over and over from veterans who fill the roster at our local VFW, American Legion and Disabled Veterans’ Association.
Those guys. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans. Young members. All of the above.
There are a number of websites that are available when doing research for a paper or project. You can Google any phrase and buckets of information come pouring out.
A military spouse can move herself, her dogs, her kids, her job and her house across the country, all alone.
She can live in a state where she knows no one and nothing. She can start over every few years. She can join a new school board, a new family readiness group, a new cellphone network.
Who needs the spooks and haunted stories of Halloween when you have to deal with the red tape that is the military? Sometimes the things military spouses deal with on a daily basis are enough to scare the bejeezus out of civilian folk.
Christmas is coming, which means some employers will be hiring extra staff to manage larger crowds and demand during the holiday season. Even if seasonal employment is not your ultimate goal, those part-time jobs can be turned into a permanent gig by employees with great attitude and work ethics.
To kick off your holiday-time job search, check out these upcoming, spouse and military-focused hiring fairs. Remember to register as soon as you decide to attend. Some fairs limit the amount of attendees and do not allow walk-ins.
Nov. 1
By Tiffany Shedd
No one ever wants to find out that they or one of their family members has a health problem. But once you know, if you’re like me, you probably go through a process of dealing with that information.
There’s a lot of unbelievable things that we witness as military wives, but sometimes the things we hear are just the stuff of modern fairy tales. Staff writer Sandra Moyer is here to dust the darkness off those closely held, widely believed rumors in our new monthly column, military myth busters.
When my children complain that they do not have their own rooms, I tell them I had my own room for exactly one year.
As a child, I shared with siblings. In college, I shared with roommates. And when I finally moved overseas for my job, then and only then did I have my own sweet, sanctuary of space. My very own room. And then I met my husband.
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