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Your Military Experience Can Be Your Key To A Bright Future

By J. Jones, Expat-Adventures

 

Military experience is in huge demand on government contracts.  If you had a job in the military that gave you experience in the filed you are applying for or you have sense picked up a certificate in the field they will move you to the top of there list.  Having the military as a customer the company wants employees who know how the military dose business.  Like all companies out there customer satisfaction is important to continued business with that customer.  The companies out there want employees who can do their job but also know how to keep there customer happy.  By being prior enlisted you already know what the military wants and you know what kind of red tape you will have to go through to get things done.  One of the big bonuses to being prior enlisted is you have seen all kinds of attitudes and know how to handle them.  Many times I have seen civilians who never spent anytime in the military get all bent out of shape when someone rubs them the wrong way or a regulation dose not make sense to them.

For the most part people who have been in the military have a little thicker skin then someone who has not.  The ability to brush off personality conflicts and keep everything professional is something very important on a military contract.  I have worked both in the civilian sector and on military contracts and I have notice that the military contracts have a much more professional working environment.  In the military you did not just learn your job you learned how to work with people from different environments.  If you spent any time overseas you also learned how to handle your self in a foreign country.  It is important to always keep your knowledge updated so if you are reading this and are still enlisted take as many courses in the field you want to have a career in.  There are people who have spent twenty years in the military but have nothing to show for it experience wise.  It is hard for me to believe them when they say they have no experience they can put on there resume from the military because we were constantly training while I was enlisted.  But if your job in the military is something you will have a hard time finding a career in when you get out you better be taking classes or getting certificates while you are in.

There are contractors who have retired from the military who get a pension and make the money as a contactor.  They do very well but in some ways if you got out after four years you could be better off if you invested what you made.  Either way is good and if you are retired military contacting is a great way to cap off your nest egg.  One of the big benefits retirees have is medical insurance.  Medical insurance is something you have to remember to plan for if you are not retired military.  The company will have a medical plan but you need to plan for your own retirement and that could be a lot sooner then you would think.  A contactor that had a good savings and investment plan could see retirement by the age of forty our sooner.