River rat is right, use all of the benefits we have earned. If you haven't gotten rated start the process. It will take a long time to get thru the system but it will pay off later not only with a few extra bucks monthly but the VA healthcare system is pretty good and free! I am 70% from multiple deployments to Iraq as well as Afghanistan hence my screen name Brokedik, it's what we called all the old broken down soldiers who couldn't jump anymore (now I'm that guy). Lol

That being said I will get back to your question. First if you haven't already used your GI Bill use it. If you don't have a preference look into University of Phoenix. They have many locations and you only go to campus one night a week for 4 hours. That will get you 2k a month for three years and you can still search and work a day job. You will also look more enticing to future employers.

Second search USAJOBS daily. It has all of the government and state jobs listed every day. I own ,y own company and make a good living but if I had to do it all over that is what I would do. A federal job is the best. Funding almost never gets cut just reassigned, you will have the best benefit package around(it will become important later) and most of all it's usually easy work with good pay. The key to being successful with federal jobs is having a clean record and don't stop with the education until you have a masters degree. Having military experience is a huge plus and will get your foot in the door. Just don't give up, stay in school and milk the GI BILL for all you can.

I know it sounds crazy reading it saying get a masters but trust me its not that hard at Phoenix. I have earned my bachelors and now working on my masters all while raising a family and owning business with 10+ employees. The key is dedication and persistence just doing it one day at a time. Use the skills you have learned in the military to nail your interview. Think of it as a promotion board and you need to explain how you know not only how to give orders but take them as well.

Don't settle now as a civilian cause real life only gets harder. Push yourself to get a career that has good future. If you settle for a job that pays $17/hr as a machinist, in ten years you will be a $17/hr machinist with 3 kids to feed (no offense if anybody out there is a $17/hr machinist ;-/ ).

Anyway that's my .02. I have given this same advise to all of my soldiers and I have already been to 3 graduations with a BA and 2 who got there MBA. All of them (myself included) came from nothing and had nothing when we started. We also all got thru it with no student loans to repay which puts us a leg up on everyone else. The military got their use out of us, now it's our turn to get our use out of them!!!


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any luck with the job hunting?

San Bernardino is still open on the website. BNSF.com probably for a couple more days.....

I applied the other day just waiting to hear back.


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Fedex.com click on Careers at the bottom. New postings every week.

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I was thinking about it. I would really like to get the job with BNSF still waiting to hear back from them. Who's the job with?


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I have a headache now after taking the BNSF railroad online test. I had to use my brain a little, Aint used to that....lol

If you get the job, you'lleven get in a routine and not need to use it as much. DO NOT do that though. That's when guys get killed. Pull up some derailments on youtube. All someone being tired or not thinking. Goodluck though. I love my job.

Thanks I hope I get the job sound interesting and better than sheet metal working. Seems like its more like a career than just a job like what I have now.

Yes we are.

There's a lot of Edison jobs open right now it just depends on what your background is as far as work and degrees I've been with them for goin on 10yrs now in the substation world but as previously stated all three are got to get in with


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I'm hiring if you have a class A.

Well hopefully Bnsf calls soon. Hang in and good luck brother.

Well that's good I really want to work at BMSF or Riverside Sheriff got my test next week.


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