Career changes

So Jack left yesterday to go to the Service Academy Career Conference in Savanah. It's kind of like a job fair for people who went to a Service Academy. There were 59 companies there (including Microsoft, Amazon, Lockhead Martin... just to name a few), so it was a great opportunity for Jack to get his foot in the door into the civilian work environment. He obviously won't be getting a job a year in advance, but he was glad he went for networking purposes and to build his own confidence in these little "mini-interviews" since he never had to actually interview in his adult life!

He ran into a guy he graduated from the Academy with (he's gotten passed for promotion twice also for an incident 10 years ago... the Navy sure does know how to hold on to things) and they got to talking. Jack told him that he was going to Afganistan, even though we expected to be out in January for lack of promotion. He informed Jack that by law they have to send you back 90 days before your exit date. That would mean Jack would have be home sometime in November (depending on when we find out that he didn't get promoted). I find it pointless to send someone to Afganistan for 4 months. All that training, all that money to train him and move us and send him would be wasted! Jack is going to talk to his training officers to see if that is actually true and if it is that he might not be promoted (and probably won't be) and will need to be sent home. It'll be interesting to see what happens. I be they say, "but you MIGHT be promoted!" HA! I think after 3 looks, the odds of him getting promoted on the 4th are slim! Things change daily in military life so it'll be interesting to see what really happens at the end of all this. Regardless I hope that 90 day rule really is true because it'll make the transition to civilian life a little less abrupt!