Why is unemployment higher among ex-military?

Answer 1

Because the military is a cheap way out. You get payed housing, schooling, and everything like that. So people who aren't that smart and therefor can't get a better job turn to the military seeing as they're paying for it all. Once their out of the military, its back to having no money because they don't have the knowledge to get a decent job.

Answer 2

Unemployment rates aren't higher for ex-military in general, but for OIF vets, the unemployment rates are quite a bit higher. It's not necessarily a matter of employers not hiring people who have fought in Iraq though. Considering that one tenth of one percent of the U.S. population are all that is currently in the Army, even the higher unemployment rates don't present a significant number. What is significant is that many of the veterans that have recently separated from the military are using their college benefits and getting an education rather than working at low paying jobs. A large percentage of them are just hanging out at their parents house not working by choice. Very few veterans that are available and willing to work are actually unemployed. The skills gained in the military, whether here in Iraq or stateside are an invaluable resource that employers can and do use every day. If a member is out of the military and the risk of being recalled is slim, they will be hired.
Of course, this place is a **** hole. There are a number of people who have some mental issues. They earned these issues and they need help, not jobs. An entire generation of people made fun of Vietnam vets with their increased rates of alcoholism and homelessness and we didn't understand. Now we do. Hopefully, we don't make the same mistake this time around.

Answer 3

I was in the army for 8.5 years. I served in Operation Desert Storm. Yeah, nothing like what we have now. But, I found that as soon as I told prospective employers that I had been in the Army, the pasty faced civilians turn even whiter. Most civilians in a position of hiring are women, in the HR Department.. When they see military, Army, enlisted, they think, "A friggin killer! Hell NO!! Really, that is what they think. Most unemployed ex-military people were enlisted. You will not find the same statistics among officers. Enlisted anything are considered scum, son. I was enlisted and I've got 4 degrees with honors in Logistics and Finance. I don't even mention it anymore. It gets you passed over. There is no such thing as patriotism in the US. It's all about the money and reducing potential liability to zero. Plus, they think you might get called up as many are in the IRR. They just don't want to deal with that. This ain't John Wayne country.

Answer 4

What a bunch of crap! Even I was only out of work a little over a month when I retired (took a month off, found a job in less than a week and started the next week). Only out of work ex-military are those that don't WANT to work or didn't try for a skill that translated into a civilian job (not much call for SIGNALMEN or NAVIGATORS, in the civilian non-sea going world). I knew of a Senior Chief(E-8) Aviation Electronics Tech who didn't get a job for over a year. He didn't want to start at the bottom...he wanted to start as a boss! HAHAHAHA what an idiot!

Answer 5

The British Army does not do enough to help men re-adjust to civilian life. What soldiers need as they approach the end of their Army service, is a year of re-training. A soldier in a Corps, Royal Engineers, Royal Signals, will have very little difficulty finding a job in civilian life. This is because mostly such people have a 'trade' and sometimes even a 'City and Guilds' certificate.

It is the Infantryman who is much less likely to have a 'trade' who needs re-training. It could be anything, plumbing, bricklaying, etc. These and similar trades are always very much in demand.

Answer 6

Because they have no trades to fall back on,,,,if you go in say as a gunner..all you know is weaponry..cqb orientation. range finding..some basic communication skills...infantry...chieftans warriors..saracens..you could get a job as a farmers batman driving his land rover......by far the best option in the army is the reme if it still exists i think its split ..mechanical and electrical engineering...hgv license..bio chemo nuke upgrades... able to fix your own rig earns Grands on civvie street take a 17 18 year old 7 years...take up karate as a hobby and youd be a 3rd dan to boot

Do both..open up your marital arts school let lesser grades instruct,,..1st kyu brown belts are able to teach....drive nuke waste at 3'' an hour round britain on about 100 an hour and youve made it...if you did the office skills as well ..the skies the limit...

The recruting officers dont advise they fill gaps...
insist...
Get your cv together go in and say... i be Harry Johnson heres my CV and ask for a brew he'd say thats in creddy bull and fasttrack you straight
to Hereford..for a cuppa and a chat.. thats creddy billet tea
right from the start when the picket room major(not a sarge there)
says well? you reply ..must be ok paludrinkit.. after hes got off the floor hell take you to the council..and see how you cope with boddies..and so it goes...you could suggest that if it doesn't work out you could go up the road and be a Slaughterman ... Wholesale Butcher...as its basically the same job description

Get a Trade
And if the cap fits, get one in every colour...

Answer 7

It is not.

The numbers are skewed because most former military take a couple of months off after leaving the service before entering the workforce.

The figures are also distorted by the large number of former military wo go to college rather than immediately joining the workforce.

But - ignoring these things allows you to take a cheap shot at people in the military.

Answer 8

I would say it is because they are trained for the military not for civilian life,if it were possible they should be de-programmed, it should be done.When you are a part of that particular club everything, thinking ,living is geared around it, for someone to come out of that close knit environment must be a nightmare and they should be offered as much help and interest to get out of it as they were given to get in to it.Throughout time it seems to have been the case that people have been disregarded when they are of no further use, in the past, there have been scenes of people selling matches on the street, a little dramatic, but a vision I have seen from old films ect. We should all be eternally grateful to the people who have been a part of our well-being.

Answer 9

You're kidding right? Every business I've worked for has given preference to those who used to be in the military.

Oh, and normally I avoid such vitriol, but I'll make an exception for you Xkimmimonstarx. Go to hell. There are no words to describe the depths of your ignorance.

Answer 10

Its true.
The military life provides job security, accommodation,reasonable pay, a structured life,a strict set of does and donts,great comradeship,loyalty, duty and a sense of purpose and worth.
Life in civvy street can be a bewildering mass of gray areas which for some used to the military lifestyle find difficult to address.

Answer 11

10% of all homeless in london are ex-military, when i came out of service i felt i didn`t belong anywhere. i looked forward to coming out but when i was out i wanted to go back. i went in from school, my mates at the doing time served apprentices plumber, plasterer etc.i came out after having responsibility rank, now i clean toilets and cabins on a building site in stoke-on-trent i wish i was unemployed. i was let down by the country i served for 14 years.