{"id":29245,"date":"2012-03-23T08:40:39","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:40:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=29245"},"modified":"2012-03-23T08:40:39","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:40:39","slug":"veterans-unemployment-falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=29245","title":{"rendered":"Veterans’ unemployment falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Some of you may not have noticed, but the media is telling us that the unemployment rate for veterans is coming down. The folks at CNN\/Time<\/a> sent us a link to their article on the difficulties some veterans are facing in the world of civvies;<\/p>\n

27-year-old Marcel Rowley, who went from being a combat infantryman in Afghanistan to a minimum-wage busboy in California. Rowley, who had been in firefights with insurgents in the Afghan mountains, had to compete against high school kids to get a restaurant job.<\/p>\n

“It took a lot of self control,” Rowley said, recalling the times when he dealt with difficult customers. “I definitely had times when I wanted to rip people’s faces off.”<\/p>\n

He realized his military experience meant nothing at home. He had gone to boot camp right after high school, and he said that in the eyes of employers it was almost as if he’d been frozen in time.<\/p>\n

Rowley — who is now a full-time student on the GI Bill at South Lake Tahoe Community College in California — and many young vets like him never had a chance to build resumes in the civilian work force.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

When I got out and went to college as a full-time student, I had three teenagers and a wife who depended on me, so I took a job as security guard for Pinkerton. The job allowed me to study on the job, a construction site that was generally closed during my night time hours. I also got a work\/study job in the school’s VA office where I worked between my classes. <\/p>\n

It was a long fall from being an infantry platoon sergeant, but you have to eat a lot of shit in order to get ahead. Yeah, there were people I wanted to choke everyday, they should be sending me thank you cards on their birthdays. But, I took a full load of classes through the summer just to graduate sooner and get away from that life. <\/p>\n

I know there are some of you out there are looking for work, so I’ll post this link to the US Chamber of Commerce which is sponsoring more than 400 job fairs across the country just to get veterans matched up with jobs with their “Hiring Our Heroes<\/a>” program.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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