Why is my military experience worthless?
My military experience is worthless in finding employment. I have never been a student to earn the highest grade in the class, but I am usually pretty close. Whether it was honor graduate at Military Occupational Speciality course or Corporals Course, I always lead as a Marine even if I failed. I wasn’t afraid to fail. Of course, my work ethic and discipline transfers over to my education where I have been consistently a B+/A- student since I was like five years old. However, I cannot find employment with two Bachelor of Arts and ten years of highly decorated Marine Corps service.
I’m literally biking seven miles to and from the VA everyday to wash dishes for ten dollars an hour, because I am too incompetent to find employment, which wouldn’t be a big deal, except I have 2 Bachelor of Arts from The Ohio State University, ten years of decorated Marine Corps service, published two books, and manage seven sub stacks. I have been looking for jobs for years, and I have no clue what I’m doing wrong. Everyone tells me my resume is impressive, but they decided to go with someone else about seventeen thousand times. I am told I am overqualified, and I am under qualified to wash dishes.
I’ve been doing compensated work therapy for four months, and I’ve applied to thousands, if not tens of thousand of LinkedIn and Indeed applications. I applied to hundreds of jobs on USA Jobs. Indeed can fact-check me. USA Jobs can fact check me. I received zero interviews with any company I sent cover letters to, and most of my interviews were for pyramid Ponzi schemes like Globe Life Liberty National. Unfortunately, I tried selling life insurance and Globe Life didn’t pay, so when I got into an accident on the job selling life insurance, I didn’t have means to pay for a new car. I had no car, so I couldn’t Uber, and I couldn’t sell life insurance.
Most of my legit interviews were about my Military Occupational Speciality, which pays extremely well in the civilian sector. I am not kidding. JOPES Action Officers earn six figures and as much as doctors and lawyers, but that’s because JOPES Action Officers require Top Secret clearances, which doctors and lawyers do not have. I do not have a clearance either, so even though I get lots of interviews, I do not receive offers due to my lack of a clearance. If I worked in motor transportation, I could work with vehicles. If I worked in the kitchen, I could get a job n a kitchen. If I worked on aircraft, I could work on aircraft. No clearance. No job.
It has been ten years since leaving the Marine Corps and six years since graduating from OSU with a second Bachelor of Arts, and I still haven’t found a full-time position. I mean any full-time position, not even one. I worked at a gym, a bar, briefly sold life insurance, washed dishes and drove Uber. Why can’t I find employment with my English degree? Why can’t I find employment with my political science degree? Why doesn’t my military experience help me find employment?