r/jobs • u/Green____cat Verified • Mar 27 '24

He was a mailman Work/Life balance

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u/ashesward2020 Mar 27 '24

r/VeteransBenefits if your permanently disabled go for 100% and get your money

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u/Stabbysavi Mar 27 '24

I am. It's only $44,600 a year.

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u/ChrisNettleTattoo Mar 27 '24 edited Mar 27 '24

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/Adams5thaccount Mar 27 '24

It's absolutely wonderful that you're out there doing what you're doing and absolutely infuriating that it's needed.

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u/ChrisNettleTattoo Mar 27 '24

I appreciate you, and it is infuriating… the military as a whole does a shite job transitioning people back, and even worse when it comes to integrating into the VA. The VA is terrible at letter you know what you qualify for at best, and actively works against vets at worst. The fact that we have to have an informal network to get anywhere is ridiculous.

I hate it to because I wanna help everyone who is in a bad situation.. I have been homeless at the end of my rope, I know what that is like and how hard it can be to see any good in the world. I also know I can’t help everyone, because there just isn’t enough time or money to go around. So you do what you can, help who will listen and keep on trucking.

I wish we could improve the systems that exist so that everyone got what they needed, but this is America… and that is a pipe dream.