Returning Veterans

After experience a whole different world with out of normal challenges than one would experiences in our society, it can be extremely difficult for our military veterans to re-integrate into our world. Depending on what they have been through, it can take time for our soldiers to recover. Both physically and mentally. Then be able to find their footing as a whole new person (almost no one stays the same), and have satisfaction in their new role as a civilian than their life in the military. Especially when they have to find a new career, and overall purpose in life.

According Pew Social Trends (who conducted a survey on 1,853 veterans in 2011), 72% stated that they had a easy re-adjustment to civilian life. A 27% stated the opposite and said they had a very difficult time readjusting, and 44% of those veterans had served after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. They studied these veterans and concluded on various factors that would predict whether a veteran would have difficulty readjusting back into society or not. These factors include: educational background, understanding of their missions, serving time experience, or psychological trauma, etc.. Again it pinpoints back to the source of what they experienced during their service, if they got injured, or/ and how much they were traumatized. 

So how do we deal with veterans that have great psychological trauma or simply can’t pull away from military life? According to Military Advantage, we have not mentor and counsel them back in civilian readjustment but strive to find their successful and satisfying CAREERS. Not just providing them with jobs that will pay the rent. More effort and help has to be involved that will assist them, step by step, and successfully re-integrate these veterans. And that is what programs like  the American Corporate Partners (ACP, www.acp-usa.org) are working hard to achieve. As much help as they need, whether it is severe PTSD or injuries and simple education challenges. Employers have to keep these and mind and meet with what these programs are doing in the middle in order achieve the goal or successfully bringing back our soldiers. Really back.

Sources:

http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2011/12/08/the-difficult-transition-from-military-to-civilian-life/

http://www.military.com/veteran-jobs/career-advice/military-transition/returning-vets-not-jobs-careers.html

Best and Worse Job

The worst job I ever had title would have to go to my temporary position as a babysitter. I was in high school and I wanted some extra money for something I don’t even remember anymore. As the oldest of three girls, I was always taking care of my younger sister and became very good at it. My mother heard form our neighbor the she was going back to work, and needed someone to care of her kids. My mom immediately recommended me and we gave it a try. It was horrible, and I only lasted a month. Now don’t get me wrong, I love children.  It just wasn’t something I loved doing taking care of the certain children I had to take care of. They were a neighbor’s kids, and all three were between the ages of 4-8. These three children were rowdy and all around misbehaving kids. I know well-behaved and quiet kids exist, but I didn’t the luck of taking care of them. It would have made a big different during my junior year in high school. I would have been less stressed. I’m sure it was just a phase, but I simply had the worst time watching and taking care of those kids. Simply put: chaos.

My best one so far...was actually not a a paying job. It would have be my job at the animal foundation. I was volunteering for my high school credit graduation requirement. I love animals, so I really enjoyed taking care of them. It didn’t feel like a requirement. I had to make sure that they were taken care of. Make sure they were happy. So they asked me to walk them, feed them, play with them, and look after them. You could choose the dogs you wanted to look after, and for good reason. Not every dog was immediately taken with you, and they wanted to avoid any accidents. Once you got to know the dogs, you were able to help the people that came and interested in adopting. Making it easier to choose the right dog for them. It felt good seeing them go to a great family. Not chaos.

My Voice

Fashion is more than the clothes and glamour. So much work and thought goes behind the glamour and vanity the industry gives off as a fist impression. That it is closed minded and cut edge.

 

Fashion is art. It is history. It is the colorful, and creative expression of the world we experience everyday. It represents the way we interpret the world and the way we want the world to interpret us. Whether it is something that is exactly what you see or it can make you visualize a whole different vision and opinion.

 

From every collection in every season, of every year, one gets an inside look into the creative minds of the designers and what they are able to create of a vision or a past creations. They are able to impress people all over the world time and time and again with their creations, their art. Art that we may be able to connect and relate to as a form of representing who we are. They are whole new worlds and going through these collections gives an amazing and limitless.

 

I love that. I love that way it never sits within certain standards. Yes they have differentiations because people create on different viewpoints. Yet they never stop changing and the end results are endless amount of apparel to love or dislike, and still having the options of what makes you and the way you think.

 

I am precise and prefer organization, but I am also open-minded and creative. I offer both sides of what makes the fashion industry amazing. I can have and spontaneity of working outside the box, as well as the ambition and discipline of keeping and improving my work and abilities. Fashion is timeless and inspiring. It has changed and impacted history and it will continue to do so.