OR IS THAT SCREAM!!!!!!!!
I have REJOINED the work force. I have completed my first week (off tomorrow and every other Friday). I am having to RE-LEARN the patience of dealing with stupid rules and even some STUPID people. I have been fighting for four days trying to get into the office network. That story is for another day. Here is my story about how all this came about.
The Lord continues to richly bless me. As some of you remember, just before my OHS I was laid off work. With my wife working and my military retirement we were able to survive. My wife had an exceptional health insurance plan which covered almost all the medical expenses we experienced leading up to and through the OHS. Coupled with my less than generous Military Medical plan (Tricare--?Tri? meaning three?they only covered as a last resort and not much at that) we came through this (SO FAR?FINGERS CROSSED) without much additional personal debt.
Of course, as some of you have discovered not too many places want to hire over 55 folks. They won?t tell you that's the reason (IT?S AGAINST THE LAW) but most of the time you can?t even get through the front door, must less the back. But to draw the little bit of state unemployment reimbursement you must TRY to find something. To this end, I submitted many job applications; most of the time received no response back at all. Others told me I was either TOO qualified or not qualified enough.
Well, in December of 2005 I get a call from the Marine Corps Base where my wife works wanting to know if I would be interested in being considered for a GS-5 Supply Tech job. My wife working on the base had nothing to do with the job offer?it was based on an application I had submitted a long time ago and had forgotten about. I said ?SURE? figuring I had a snowballs chance in H**L of hearing anything back. Well, in January I receive a call from the personnel office wanting to know if I would be interested in ACCEPTING a Supply Technician job with the Marine Corp Base in Albany, Georgia. I thought they were calling me to let me know I was being CONSIDERED for the position. I asked when I would be interviewed for the job position. After a long pause, the woman said I had been accepted based on my application and the job was mine if I wanted it. Talk about a job just landing in your lap!!!!!!!
I?ve sorta missed the military life since I retired in 1993 (I lived military for 26 years!!!) and this puts me back in?on the civilian side of course. I guess it will cut in to my VR.COM time but I WILL be logging on as time permits (SORRY MARY AND ROSS). So another chapter opens in my life.
I post this to let folks out there know there can be a life AFTER OHS. Thanks for ?listening?.
May God Bless,
Danny
I have REJOINED the work force. I have completed my first week (off tomorrow and every other Friday). I am having to RE-LEARN the patience of dealing with stupid rules and even some STUPID people. I have been fighting for four days trying to get into the office network. That story is for another day. Here is my story about how all this came about.
The Lord continues to richly bless me. As some of you remember, just before my OHS I was laid off work. With my wife working and my military retirement we were able to survive. My wife had an exceptional health insurance plan which covered almost all the medical expenses we experienced leading up to and through the OHS. Coupled with my less than generous Military Medical plan (Tricare--?Tri? meaning three?they only covered as a last resort and not much at that) we came through this (SO FAR?FINGERS CROSSED) without much additional personal debt.
Of course, as some of you have discovered not too many places want to hire over 55 folks. They won?t tell you that's the reason (IT?S AGAINST THE LAW) but most of the time you can?t even get through the front door, must less the back. But to draw the little bit of state unemployment reimbursement you must TRY to find something. To this end, I submitted many job applications; most of the time received no response back at all. Others told me I was either TOO qualified or not qualified enough.
Well, in December of 2005 I get a call from the Marine Corps Base where my wife works wanting to know if I would be interested in being considered for a GS-5 Supply Tech job. My wife working on the base had nothing to do with the job offer?it was based on an application I had submitted a long time ago and had forgotten about. I said ?SURE? figuring I had a snowballs chance in H**L of hearing anything back. Well, in January I receive a call from the personnel office wanting to know if I would be interested in ACCEPTING a Supply Technician job with the Marine Corp Base in Albany, Georgia. I thought they were calling me to let me know I was being CONSIDERED for the position. I asked when I would be interviewed for the job position. After a long pause, the woman said I had been accepted based on my application and the job was mine if I wanted it. Talk about a job just landing in your lap!!!!!!!
I?ve sorta missed the military life since I retired in 1993 (I lived military for 26 years!!!) and this puts me back in?on the civilian side of course. I guess it will cut in to my VR.COM time but I WILL be logging on as time permits (SORRY MARY AND ROSS). So another chapter opens in my life.
I post this to let folks out there know there can be a life AFTER OHS. Thanks for ?listening?.
May God Bless,
Danny
