Shorter interview about Army Reserve Retirement - Recently retired CW3 Glen Mitchell tells us all about his journey through Reserve retirement, doing multiple Reserve retirement briefings, interfacing with Veterans Affairs even after just coming off of 29 days (or more) orders [ get your DD214 === go initiate your VA claims process], the civilian job market abd how to increase your odds of getting hired, beating the boredom by remaining active in the workforce or in your hobbies, and more.

Links and show notes:

MRE - Meal Ready to Eat

Voluntold - The exact opposite of volunteering. Always used in reference to an unpleasant task to which you have been assigned by your boss.

Additional Information:

Co-worker 1: I hear you got a transfer. Co-worker 2: Yeah. I didn't want to, but I was voluntold.

Build a list of contacts / networking in order to position yourself for a job

Keep yourself consistently engaged in something after leaving the military in order to fill the time gap

Affect change through taking action, not through planning

dev/null - This entity is a common inspiration for technical jargon expressions and metaphors by Unix programmers, e.g. "please send complaints to /dev/null", "my mail got archived in /dev/null", and "redirect to /dev/null"—being jocular ways of saying, respectively: "don't bother sending complaints", "my mail was deleted", and "go away".

Buying your spouse a retirement gift instead of buying yourself a retirement gift

Reservists having to do SFL-TAP every time you get a DD214

Build your own camaraderie structure outside of the military

“If it’s not a hobby, it’s going to run you over” - Glen Mitchell

“Choose a job you love, and you will never have to work a day in your life.” - Confucius

Warrant Officer Career Path - Why Warrant Officers have such a tight bond

Warrant Officer Career College - https://armyuniversity.edu/wocc/home

Master Resiliency Training/ Comprehensive Soldier Fitness - https://www.usar.army.mil/CSF/

Army Reserve (and National Guard) - Apply for VA benefits after mobilization - https://www.benefits.va.gov/BENEFITS/benefits-summary/SummaryofVANationalGuardandReserve.pdf

VA website - check the box - Im applying - https://www.va.gov/

Linkedin - https://www.linkedin.com/in/glen-mitchell-7721a95/

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