“JOURNEYMAN: Plays every festival it can, year after year, honing its live act hoping to infect people.”

*If then product, service, or skill is in your garage or long-term memory—& not gathering dust—& you use it once a week or so--you're a journeyman. If it's something you do every day for a small audience--family excluded--just because you enjoy doing it, you're a journeyman."

Journeymen look at the job search when they have to look at the job search. It’s something the do because they have to. It’s something they dread.

This is how the services enable (or disable) members to be ready for their transition. TAPS is mandatory within a year or 18 months of getting out. No one at work is talking about being prepared-because they themselves aren't.

But civilians operate at least at this level every day. They’re one foot in their current life, one foot on the horizon.

Being a journeymen is a start, but there’s more that must be done.

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