What did you do in the days and weeks afterward when you left the service?

Pretty much went around like a lost puppy for a while because I actually had trouble readjusting to civilian life then started to find a job

Geat question Col., to which I have no response since I have never been in !!!

Went to school and worked full time, almost immediately.
Tried doing that for 2 years with some success.
As a side note.
One of the few things that the Army told me when I left the service was go see the Pennsylvania State Unemployment Office for help with employment. I was a 31M20 at the time that was a "Radio Relay and Carrier Operator, Signal Corps. Now it is different. I had some hopes that my training would have some application in the civilian world.
The veteran's clerk I met with looked at my information. Reached up and pulled a dusty, decrepit 3-ring binder off the shelf. Shuffled through it for a few minutes. Looked up at me and said, "Nothing that matches your MOS is on the books. I asked,"Do you mean at this time?" "No, your MOS is not something that translates to civilian life"
I was dumbfounded. I knew enough to think that maybe the phone company would be interested. He said he looked and NADA!
Long story short. I finally saw and ad in the paper. AT&T Long Lines. I figured, no harm in trying.
AT&T gave me 3 years credit on the PAY SCALE for my service time.
How many lives did this clerk and others screw up? I know of at least one other. Probably hundtreds of others. Grrrrrrrrrrrrr

Husband kicked me out because I was pissed he spent all my money. He took the last 2k out of our account closing it. I lived in my borrowed car, waited tables, tempt as a bud light girl, jager girl, and few other silly talent model gigs. I lost everything. I couldn’t say goodbye to his kids I helped raise. But I made it through. It wasn’t easy sometimes very ugly. That’s just one page in that stupid drama of coming home to be a civilian.

Medically retired because of a back injury, that has, sadly kept on giving every day since. For a while, after the medical board, I was trying to figure out whether to have the spinal fusion or deal with the pain, so I was in a pretty depressing spot for a while.
Now, I think back at the ongoing back pain... when that was the ONLY pain, and I'm thinking , "Oh yea, good times... I could get up without sounding like Rice Crispies getting a serving of milk, the Arthritis hadn't shown up yet... didn't have Fibromyalgia... and I wonder how I could have thought all that was so bad!
If there is anything that cronic pain teaches you, its that you are a lot stronger than you thought, and you gauge your days on how bad the pain is in the morning. Some days are really good, some days are not so good, but you know, if you can get your ass up and keep moving, anything is possible, after all, I made it thru Parris Island, how bad could anything else be?

Cleared post,do they still say that now?Nov.1968 Fort Polk LA.went back home to Boston,Mass where everyone spoke like I do,drank too much had problems adjusting but with the help of my wife and family got straightened out and retired after 44 years at a public utility company, compared to some of these other posts I've been blessed

I was in a coma for a week of it, and I can't remember what I did for a few years after I had come out of it.

First time I was tossed due to DOPMA. No job, no insurance, needed surgery bad. Got VA to do it. Filed for unemployment but with a 6 week lag before you get any benefits, I had a job lined up and went on from there. Went reserves and when I retired from that, I went to Costco and bought the Arnold Palmer golf clubs which I knew would always be better than me. Think how I was handled sometimes affected how I treat people because I know the feeling.

All I did was breastfeed because coincidently I was MEBed 5 weeks before my due date.

Grew a Vandyke, got my ear pierced...those two were things I couldn't do at home with my parents before I joined at 17 and couldn't do for another 26 years so I just thought what the heck. Reconnected with family and three months later, went to work again...too young to stay home. I took the three months to gear down and totally switch gears, becoming fulltime Dad and husband again...I wasn't ready to go to work right away.