Welcome to "The Hired Veteran". I write about my experience as a veteran and the job search. My hope is that my adventures in job hunting help veterans find purpose and meaningful employment after they leave the uniform. Please reach out to me and share your thoughts on what you think of the site!
Cheers,
Tommy
Non AI Tommy here. I asked ChatGPT to write this post using the prompt below. I have felt that what ChatGPT produces tends to lack “soul” or “feeling”. However, it provides interesting information and ideas. The utility here is not having the AI write my posts, but maybe next time I will ask it for an outline and use that to produce content…
When I “restarted” this experiment called “The Hired Veteran” I told myself that I would get one post out a week. So far I haven’t kept up with that. And that is ok.
IF YOU OR ANYONE YOU KNOW IS STRUGGLING THERE IS HELP. CALL 988 TO BE CONNECTED TO THE SUICIDE AND CRISIS LINE RIGHT AWAY, CALL SOMEONE IF YOU ARE STRUGGLING, ANYONE, JUST REACH OUT. YOU ARE LOVED AND YOU ARE VALUED NO MATTER THE PAIN YOU FEEL IN THIS MOMENT. THE WORLD NEEDS YOU.
I want my LinkedIn to be a place where I can genuinely connect with people in a professional way and know that if someone needs me to reach out to a connection I can do that in a real way.
Dall-e prompt: Follow this person!
Do yourself a favor, go follow Jason Politte on LinkedIn right now. It doesn’t matter if you are veteran, not a veteran, active duty, anyone. His content and posts around the concept of empathy will provide insight to anyone in any industry.
I am no stranger to working on cars. I have rebuilt a couple engines, replaced the fuel pumps on one of my trucks, swapped out wheel bearings, etc. I am fairly confident I can do most projects. This one seemed really easy…
Focusing on one thing is important, but not getting so myopic that you miss the bigger picture is equally important. I walked right past the pond last night at 11pm and surely saw it was full and could have turned the water off then. I had the thought earlier in the day that I needed to not forget to turn the water off and could have set a reminder or alarm on my phone, I didn’t…I thought I would remember…I didn’t.
I left active duty in 2014, in June of this year I will have officially been out of the Marines longer than I was in the Marines. That in and of itself doesn’t really mean anything, it’s just an arbitrary statistic. However, it does mean that my military service is largely irrelevant.
Each time I start it I think “I’m going to keep it going this time, this is the one!”. And some short time later I realize it has been months (or years) between work on the project.
I do see and believe in the nature of advancing technology. Although “crypto” may be in its extreme infancy it is springing forward some amazing projects and goals that I don’t believe would have had any life without technology backing them.
