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In addition to this being our first time living on post, this past year was the first time I let my older daughter ride the school bus. She was so excited to have time with her friends before school. I was so excited that I could save money on gas.
Ms. Practicality over here.
Beyond saving gas, taking Izzy to the bus stop has had another profound impact on my life.
We’re swiftly reaching that long-anticipated change in military status from active duty to retired. Wow.
What comes next? What do we do first? What do we do, period? There are so many questions that need to be answered when we make this change, not just from active to retired status, but from military to civilian, transient to permanent. Options change, opportunities change, everything changes.
One thing I’ve come to love about life in a military setting is that you get to meet people from just about everywhere. I grew up in northern Indiana, and for those of you who haven’t been there, no, it’s not all corn fields. I’m from South Bend, which was named for being on the south bend of the St. Joseph River. It’s most noted for being the home of Notre Dame and is where Studebaker cars were once manufactured.
Being a mom is hard work! Add the additional stress of being a military spouse and then pile school on top of it all and you’re in for an uphill hike. The good news is that online programs have made education much more flexible, allowing you to fit school in around everything else you already have going on. But even with that flexibility (and sometimes because of it) it can still be downright tricky to balance it all.
If you are a practical person (which I am certainly not, but for this article I will pretend to be) you should consider the following two things in your quest for employment:
Is the position I am attempting to occupy a mobile one?
Is the field I am attempting to occupy considered always-in-demand?
Sometimes the hardest part of starting or growing a business is the idea that we don’t know what we don’t know. Failure to understand things like business structure, taxes, and marketing can cause all kinds of problems for a new or growing business. What is a business owner to do? How can they hope to prevent some of the pitfalls that come from simply not knowing everything there is to know about running a business? One of the easiest and most beneficial things a business owner can do is find a mentor.
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