Posted on Jul 30, 2015
How did you decide what to do with your life after active duty?
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I plan on getting out of the Navy at the end of my enlistment. The sole reason being is I don't want to leave my kids anymore. Sea duty guarantees me I will. My issue is I joined at 17. This is all I know. I can not commit to a future job because I know I have a wide range of skill sets and I can't choose just one. So for my vets, how did you decide what to do after? I need a flexible job that way I can follow my soon to be husband around that's active duty Army. Oh and the end of my enlistment is 2019, so I have time, but we all know how quickly that flies by.
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Don't forget there is always the National Guard. You could continue life in the military with a much less impact on your family life.
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Careers find you. You don't find them...
What you plan to do may not be what you will ultimately end up doing. I was an intel analyst, so I figured I would end up a government contractor. Ended up loathing it. I ended up doing retail management, and later dispatching and office management which I really enjoy.
I use a lot of the skills I learned while I was in though. Communications, time management, supervisory, management, map reading. You will be surprised where the parallels appear.
What you plan to do may not be what you will ultimately end up doing. I was an intel analyst, so I figured I would end up a government contractor. Ended up loathing it. I ended up doing retail management, and later dispatching and office management which I really enjoy.
I use a lot of the skills I learned while I was in though. Communications, time management, supervisory, management, map reading. You will be surprised where the parallels appear.
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PO1 Shahida Virella one thing that may help steer you to find what you will as a civilian is to take the Meyers-Briggs Assessment. (It may be Briggs-Meyers, I can never remember.) It will not tell you what you should do but show you what fields are good for you and which ones you should avoid. The career office at any community college should be able to administer the test or tell where it is administered. The test takes about half an hour. After you get the results you can see what you do fits with what is a good match. Good luck.
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PO1 Shahida Marmol
I've done a few of these assessments, and the problem is I fit into a lot of varying roles. It makes it hard for me to settle on just one lol
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PO2 Peter Klein
PO1 Shahida Marmol - On the bright side you have options. But it is difficult to weed through all of them to find the "right" one. What do you really, really, really like to do? Can you make money at it. You might want to find a copy of a book that has been around for several decades, "Do What You Love, the Money Will Follow." Maybe there are answers there.
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