What if there was an easy introduction to walk you through all the steps of starting your own business? What if someone explained all the technical, legal, and marketing aspects of starting a business, so you could get it right the first time and save yourself a lot of headaches and wasted hours? What if a professional showed you exactly how to make a profit from your business, and how to maximize your client base with social media?
Military spouses face many employment challenges, due to PCS moves, deployments, lack of affordable childcare, and not living near family.
Though I’m “seasoned” now with multiple deployments, over a dozen moves, and several overseas assignments under my belt, thinking of those times brings back a wave of memories and I hope I never forget those feelings. It’s not so far away, after all. And when I meet a fresh new young spouse, with a look of bewilderment in her eyes, I’m taken back, too. Because we’re not so different, you and me.
For a spouse caught in the stormy seas of military life, Jen McDonald’s book “You Are Not Alone” is like a lifeboat. This little book provides 30 days of readings in encourage military spouses through different challenges.
Fly Safe: Letters from the Gulf War and Reflections from Back Home provides a personal, intimate view into a military family’s experiences during wartime deployments. This unique memoir uses a combination of storytelling, letters, and journal entries so you can...
Military Spouse Challenge: How do you measure up to a civilian spouse? Military spouses face unique challenges in their marriages and their daily lives. Most people don't have to move every 3 years, or live without their husband for months at a time, or put up with...
Do you know someone currently deployed? Not everyone does! In the military community, we are used to deployments. Even if we haven't experienced one yet, we still have friends and neighbors who are currently deployed, about to deploy, or just came back from a...
It is unacceptable that military families in base housing are caught as helpless victims between the Housing Office and the energy management company. If old wiring and faulty meters are causing energy problems for the base, military families should not have to foot the bill. Instead, the government should investigate their contracts with YES energy, Lincoln Military Housing, and Hunt Housing to see where and how costs can be reduced.
This Veteran’s Day, the DAV is making it easy for anyone to thank a military veteran. They have created a free video tool where you can upload photos and create your own custom video within a few minutes.
He wanted to get promoted in the field.
It would have been a good plan except that:
1) I did not know how to get to his training area, and
2) I did not know it is illegal to park a civilian vehicle in an active training area.