What kind of career should a Marine of 22 years and 8 combat tours transfer too.?

Question

BA degree in History as well. Military job was classified

too old for secret service 22 +18

Kids would run all over me, much different yelling at a Marine i can take his liberty.

FBI CIA are not retired service members they all got out early. 37 years old is the age limit.

Baby shoes has got a good point!! Well i have posted my resume everywhere and all i get is insurance companies/scams

Joust your wrong. i was an Intelligence Analyst and I did do 8 combat tours 5 in Iraq 1 in Afgan dessert storm and Somalia

Post Office/Teacher/Police all start at 24,000 when i left i was making over 60,000 thats hard to bite off.

School is an Option I do have the GI bill to use still. But the retirement pension is crap. And i would still need a very good part time job for full time school

Yes the job force for Vets is really tough out here. Too old for most jobs and employers are intimidated by our leadership styles. Sad thing is i'm in great shape both physically and mentally despite combat. OK i'm lying I suffer from insomnia as you can tell.. But I think it's because I have been job searching for 3 months and nothing. WORSE I sent my resume to Viper who sends it out for you to recruiters 65.00 and all i got was scammers and spammers. Thanks for all the great comments and support I will keep on marching as Marines do because like soldiers we don't know how to quit we just get the mission accomplished and come home.

K3- those are great answers and i am trying both Contracting and GS positions but I have been getting snubbed by the good old boy NETWORK everytime i get an interview. They hire thier buddies and i'm talking very senior officers 05/06's. they are taking the jobs I'm qualified for. As for going over seas i can't do it anymore my daughter is 10 and i missed 8 Bdays and i promised her nomore. But those were great choices thanks

Shadow being a Marine is the greatest pride in the world you will love it. But once it's over the gov just tosses us out to pasture. They need to come up with a better pension plan to protect us..

Answer 1

You can get a job as a security mentor or such, like advising security faults or train and advise future Marines and such...

You could also be a P.E. Teacher, it's not very hard.. Plus you were a former Marine so you would or could know about physical fitness... My PT Teacher is a former Airmen and my English teacher is a former Army Viet. veteran...

You could also work at ROTC or like I said, train and advise future Marines and such..

You could be like Tom Clancy and write your own books, or like the Rogue Warrior guy..

You could work in as a contractor for military related or security related things...

You could be a history teacher with the degree in History.

You could be many things, I'm also planning onto becoming a Marine when I get out of college (9 years or so...). Is it that hard trying to find a job, because I always thought that veterans have VA and such...

Well you can also become a security advisor with that intelligence analyzer.. Or you can or if you can.. Continue serving as an officer and above, like general or work for the department of the Navy/Army/Marine Corp/Air Force.. Etc.

Be a middle school teacher, it's going to be a challenge but not hard as high school.. Oh yeah, my teacher in the Bay Area California gets paid up to 80,000$ per year max I think.. If you teach for while and such then you can get 20,000$ higher then what you used to get paid as, then retire and continue as a substitute teacher... I'm assuming you were an officer since you got paid 60k...

Oh yeah see a therapist or a doctor about insomnia, I once had it and it was helluva annoying, it went away naturally..

Answer 2

Just in case this is serious, go back to school, get a couple of advanced degrees, and then try. The civilian world will generally discount military experience to the point of meaninglessness.

By the way, I suspect you're shining us on, because there are no military JOBS that are "classified." Nor would you be likely to have EIGHT "combat tours." Further, Marines generally don't talk about "tours," they talk about "deployments" or "assignments." Finally, if you really had that kind of experience, you'd be able to study the situation and make a decision without asking about it on yahoo.

And it's DESERT Storm, not dessert, and Intelligence Analyst is not a classified job. Further, if you were in 22 years, you should have at least have been an E-7 or E-8, in which case you almost certainly wouldn't have been working as an intel analyst anymore.

Answer 3

How about working for a contractor in the AOR? I know people who have retired and taken jobs either in Afghanistan or Iraq/Kuwait and are making some serious coin. Most of those guys are logistics folks but I'm sure they need intell guys.

ROTC. I admit I didn't read all of the prior responses, but I know of one guy that retired and went to work in a high school's ROTC program. I see a lot of ads in the Army Times looking for folks to work in ROTC programs in colleges as well. They could use your experience.

How about working with the Department of the Army. From time to time I have seen jobs posted looking for intell guys to work with things like the Army Reserve, not as soldiers, but GS-9's or higher doing homeland security type assessments.

I believe homeland security was already mentioned, but also think about that in terms of disaster planning. A lot of States, especially the Gulf states, are taking a more serious look at this since Katrina hit. The folks to talk to there would be the Emergency Management offices. That goes to even the county and city level as governments learned that putting the mayor's cousin in the EMA director's job doesn't always work out when the hurricane force wind blows the...well you know where I'm going with that.

Answer 4

Why don't you get a job working for one of those private security companies working in war zones? Like Blackwater USA. If you're SAS, DEVGRU, or Delta I heard you pretty much have the run of the place. If you were a marine that was in Force Recon, and retired after 20 years you'd probably pull down a pretty good salary. And you'll still be in the same business. For alot of marines and special warfare vets it's difficult for them to go from the military to a career delivering mail or something.

Answer 5

Post Office!! I'm telling you that's what my Dad did and he was in 26 years. Semper FI Marine Post office is higher then that. My Dad started at 16/hr plus got his Retirement. Hey Shadow there is no such thing as a Former Marine once a Marine always a Marine.

Answer 6

My father retired from the Army with 20 years and I want to say thank you for your service to our country. Have you thought about customs? My Sgt. ( I am a police officer ) retired and moved over to customs. With overtime he makes about 80K.... Customs I think is pretty low stress and make decent money. I don't think they have an age requirement. Also, the MTA police in NYC is hiring (They are responsible for the Long Island Railroad and Metro North Railroad as well as Grand Central Station and Penn Station ) I don't think they have an age requirement and they do very well. Anyways, good luck and God bless.

Answer 7

Well, with classified experience you could go into FBI, CIA, Law Enforcement. The Marines, as well as other military services, give great experience for any position. I know a lot of former military men, I say that because they came from all branches, who became great teachers, one who was a substitute, he liked having his pick of when to work.

Answer 8

Its a shame that someone with such a service record should have to get a job upon retirement from Active Duty.
The government should take care of its veterans a little better.
But "should" and the "blame game" won't get you any answers.
I honestly have no idea, other than maybe some kind of security consulting gig or civilian intel analyst with a government contractor or something.
Best of luck to you.

Answer 9

Join/raise an NGO and campaign against American invasion/intervention in any other country of the world.
The only exceptions can be the ones physically attacking USA.

Answer 10

wow you have a well served &honorable duty to our country- i,m also a vet with 23 years service many dutys and jobs also classified -time has come to retire and move on -as for as a career that is a choice that is to your best skills and abilitys --as always --mission first --men always --carry on