So, I finally decided that I should at least try to go back to full-time work. Everyone in our house is in full-time school. No one really needs my help during the day, and well, let's face it. The extra money would be nice. So I began my search.
The kids are back to school, is it time for you to head back to work?
There are job fairs happening all over the nation this month. The ones listed below are hosted by the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, Hiring Our Heroes initiative. These fairs are specifically designed and held for military members and their spouses.
Congratulations on your promotion. Your superiors selected you over your peers to become the new manager. Navigating this transition into management will be tricky. Having to make that transition and be an effective leader to your former peers will be even trickier. But it's doable.
New school year, new opportunities, new writers here at Salute to Spouses!
As you gather your fresh, new school supplies and back them all neatly into your bag for the first day back to class, we have a fresh, new crop of bloggers to accompany you on your back to school journey!
Just like you, these ladies, all military spouses, have tackled homework assignments with newborn babies, balanced late night homework assignments with late night, overtime hours at work and desperately searched for work after a PCS move.
It is the first PCS (summer) season we haven’t moved in the last three years. It is also the first time since we were first married that we have lived off base. Since we live in a “normal” neighborhood (i.e. a mix of retired, active duty and civilians) I didn’t expect to see much change around the neighborhood. But since we returned from a vacation a couple weeks ago, I am surprised by the number of “for rent or for sale” and “annual rental property” signs around our community. It seems like every other house had been emptied by one family and waiting for a new family to move in.
Do you find that when it comes time to PCS, it seems like there are no less than a million decisions to be made? I know I do!
Do you or your husband travel ahead while the other stays behind or do you go together?
Do you take the kids out of school to move or wait until the break?
How much stuff do you take in your personally owned vehicle?
I read a terrifying study a few weeks back. It determined that babies born at military hospitals were twice as likely to be injured during delivery.
In my tiny Navy town, this news brought about quite the brouhaha.
Elizabeth Jamison has taken the bar exam twice in two different states. And now, she’s preparing to take it again, in a third state. Each time, she has aced it.
Three bar exams? The extra pressure, study time and cost – crazy you say? It’s the life of a dedicated military spouse who is also a dedicated attorney.
I got nothing.
Ever go to work, school, extracurricular activities, heck, even visits with friends and think, yep, I am just a giant blob of unproductive exhaustion.
I know a lot of things.
Seriously. Like, a lot of things. I know how to make lasagna without a recipe, how to tile a bathroom floor and how to be in a tactical aircraft landing without puking. My knowledge is pretty diverse, to be honest.
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