Posted on Feb 18, 2016
What did you do in the days and weeks afterward when you left the service?
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RP Members, Connections, and Friends one of those Questions that was lost in RP Outer Space, but still a great question.
What did you do in the days and weeks afterward when you left the service
Did you take a vacation?
Do you remember where you were when you left the service?
Did you immeidatley start going to school, look for a job, draw unemployment?
How did you feel?
I drew unemployment and starting looking for a job right away, while attending College immediately - I was married and had to get going!
What did you do in the days and weeks afterward when you left the service
Did you take a vacation?
Do you remember where you were when you left the service?
Did you immeidatley start going to school, look for a job, draw unemployment?
How did you feel?
I drew unemployment and starting looking for a job right away, while attending College immediately - I was married and had to get going!
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I also drew unemployment, continued to send out job applications and network. But the most notable thing was that I took advantage of not having to get up for PT. I slept in for about two weeks. Afternoons were busy, but my mornings were for personal PMCS.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
LTC (Join to see) I wish I could say the same about sleeping in - just can't do it. I drew unemployment for about 3 weeks and got a job back in 1980! Thanks for sharing!
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I found a temp job at an arcade/adventure center, until a better paying job came along. I got my job with the railroad and enlisted in the Air Guard at the same time.
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Went to find a job. Had trouble keeping them, asthma don't fire off as bad now.
But fresh out of military seamed like everything set off my asthma.
Mentally I was quit dejected... I was bitter, angry. Pysical pains went , however, I went from beaming with pride to feeling lower than earthworms. I am part Miamiya, many esteemed warriors in my clain. .. so to be laid low by injuries.
Was a mental burning cynder.
But fresh out of military seamed like everything set off my asthma.
Mentally I was quit dejected... I was bitter, angry. Pysical pains went , however, I went from beaming with pride to feeling lower than earthworms. I am part Miamiya, many esteemed warriors in my clain. .. so to be laid low by injuries.
Was a mental burning cynder.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
PFC Michael Robert Lawrence I hope things have gotten better for you since then. Please feel free to reach out to me on a personal level if you would like to discuss it further. I can be reached at: [login to see] Thanks for sharing the pain you went through - sometimes that can be very healing in itself. Just my opinion! I hope you will connect if you are still feeling the same way! If not, I hope you are doing much better now!
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Even though I had wanted to take some time off my new job wanted me to start the following week. I final out processed on a Tuesday and drove to Texas where I started my new job where I have been for 20 years now the following Monday.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
MSgt Wayne Morris I here what you are saying - I was lucky because I left active duty from and overseas assignment, so when I flew back into the states I had to pick up a car in port and drive across the United States back to Illinois - made a couple scenic stops along the way, but it was short because I needed to find a job and get into school right away, get into my new unit in the National Guard, and so on and so forth. No real vacation per se!
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I was waiting to join my NG unit and I was actively looking for a job. I wanted to take a vacation but I have kids and they take up my time. I was in Savannah GA when I left active duty. I wish I had stayed on active duty I miss the military but not some of the stupid stuff we had to put up with, last minute orders that have to be done by 1700.
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COL Mikel J. Burroughs
SGT (Join to see) Thanks for sharing. I've seen some unusual orders come down on active duty from 1975 to 1980 and then I've seen some unusal ones as a commissions officer from 1983 all the way up to 2012. There is always going to be somebody out there that shoots from the hip.
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The first time I got out after 9 years enlisted service I immediately went to work full-time at a job I had been working occasionally on some weekends. No vacation, no break.
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