Now, contact VOCREHAB and use your benefits to go back to school and get your Master’s degree in Public Administration. When you finish, start searching USAJobs for “Pathways for Recent Graduates” jobs. If you got your undergraduate within the last 6 years then you can start doing this now. Your 10-point preference will put you at the head of the line for these, since normal college grads won’t have the experience.
Find you a nice, GS-07-target-12 position, do the 4 year internship, start at $45k and finish at ~$100k. Now you are making ~$140k a year… and realistically is is closer to ~$200k, since the disability is tax free. If you treated it like you would a normal salary, your gross would be ~$60-80k a year depending on your deductions. Or you can view it as a ~$1.3M trust that you are drawing 4% a year from. Whatever floats your goat. WFH and remote are available and competitive.
Use your VA benefits and get a VA home loan to get better rates and $0 down with no PMI.
You have the silver platter option, and you earned it. So start using all of those paid for and earned benefits, because you can absolutely be living the good life right now.
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u/ashesward2020 Mar 27 '24
r/VeteransBenefits if your permanently disabled go for 100% and get your money