Hi everyone! Any veterans here? Wondering what sort of government work you do as a civilian and how your military service skills transferred over.

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I’m a finance director now and held 3 jobs in the Army/Army Reserve. There is very little technical crossover but the management and leadership skills certainly transferred over.

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Thank you all so much for your service to our country 💘 you are amazing, and brave humans.
I SO appreciate you!

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Senior Network Engineer/IT Manager. I was a comm Marine. My clearance and sec + opened the doors wide open. Those plus experience and other certs that I had paid for by the CTC on active duty really helped me get far in IT.

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