Last week I attended the MOAA Spouse Symposium on careers. The day was full of information, some new, some not, but overall it was a day full of learning.
The day started off with a panel discussion about what employers want to know about you. We also heard from Senator Patty Murray, a number of employment experts in various sessions, military spouses that have made their own careers, and policy officials on what states and the country are doing to support military spouses. Here are my top takeaways from the day: Continue reading “Lessons from the MOAA Spouse Symposium”
This week the Military Officers Association of America (MOAA) is holding the 2013 Spouse Symposium at the University of Washington Tacoma. The topic? Keeping a Career on the Move, I am so excited! I am looking forward to learning how other spouses have moved their careers and just general tips on getting jobs.
I’ve been lucky that I’ve been able to find work but as I’ve talked about before, I’m still figuring out what to do with my life. You can follow my day via Twitter where I’ll be tweeting from the various keynotes and workshops. I’ll also do a recap next week (probably Tuesday to be honest, we’ve got a wedding this weekend of a dear friend, my birthday, and a busy work/school day Monday). Let me know what you are curious about and want to know and I will share with you here!
If only I knew what I wanted to do when I grew up. I know that sounds silly but I thought that I had life figured out to some extent two years ago. I graduated from college, got a job in magazines, had a great relationship, etc. But looking back on it now I’m not sure that even then I knew what I wanted to do. Even then I knew that I was soon to be an Army wife. I turned down interviews for other positions because I was moving in about a year. I regret still not knowing what my niche is. And here I am in graduate school, in a program that is exactly what I want to learn about to succeed, but I feel like the fact that I will move again stops me from getting a real job.
Honestly. It scares me that someone won’t hire me because I’m not in this area forever. After a personal reflection of my resume: lots of experience, lots of internships. When do I get out of the internship lull? When do I trust myself to just apply for jobs that I know I am qualified to do? What do those people need to see in my resume to say “yeah, we should interview this one.”
Me on the job as a newspaper reporter. Photo by Scott Hansen
