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| Read Our Blog Read Our Blog Blog Moving Forward with Veterans Forward Wenceslao Garcia June 20, 2014 IT Career Lab, Training, Veterans Forward, Workforce 1 Growing up in the Little Village neighborhood the place it has all the time been recognized for having a inhabitants with low earnings, I was all the time informed to do nicely in class because it would help me get right into a excessive paying profession, however today it appears to be detached. I enlisted within the U.S. Navy soon after I graduated from Farragut Career Academy in 2003. In the Navy I was a Logistics Specialist, and loved it because I traveled to far away places. I was honorably discharged 4 years later in November 2007. I got here back to Chicago and rapidly began my job search, on the time the unemployment price was at four.7 p.c which was a lot lower than it is now. At the time I didn’t have a school diploma, and obtaining one was main objective. I was happy to take an element time job as an Administrative Security Guard in downtown Chicago. I enrolled at Northeastern Illinois University in the fall of 2008 and earned my Bachelor’s Degree in the summer of 2012. Soon after graduating, I shortly began my job search once more with the unemployment rate at 7.eight %, which remained regular from September by way of November then raised a bit in December to 7.9 p.c. In November 2012, I started volunteering in the Little Village neighborhood community heart referred to as Universidad Popular as a Digital Literacy Tutor and serving to out in the Youth Uprising program. As a Digital Literacy tutor I assisted the teacher with adults seeking to acquire basic or intermediate laptop expertise. Working in the Youth Uprising program I helped the youth with their 5th -eighth grade level math homework. In March 2013, I was provided two job positions at Universidad Popular as an English as a Second Language teacher for adults and as a Basic Digital Literacy instructor. I labored in each those positions for a year, and I nonetheless ha d my half time administrative safety job downtown. In February 2014 I give up all of them, and determined to focus more on completely different alternatives, at the time the unemployment fee was at 6.7 p.c, my optimism was somewhat bit higher than the prior 12 months. With barely larger optimism I was joyful obtain a couple of telephone calls right here and there for jobs like a customer support consultant, pay roll, and some delivery and receiving positions, however I by no means actually landed a job. At one payroll place, their job posting supplied pay starting at $40,000 a year, but at the interview I was advised that it was full time forty hours per week, starting at only $thirteen.00 an hour. I would sometimes get cellphone calls from for profit organizations that supplied courses in IT certifications which I would later find out through a simple internet search that they'd bad reviews by former students; one scholar reported that the organization had problems with their netwo rk. I by no means followed via with that organization. Today with the newest launch of the employment standing by the Bureau of Labor Statistics indicating that there are 217,000 jobs gained in May 2014, the unemployment price remained the same because the prior month at 6.3 percent. It was reported by media that the economy has recovered all the roles lost during the Great Recession. The underlying fact of course is that many of the jobs being created nowadays are half time and short-term jobs, subsequently they are not high paying jobs. Now I am an intern with theVeterans Forward program at National Able Network, and I even have enrolled in the IT Career Lab to be able to be a Cisco Certified Network Associate. I will full this certification in 14 weeks while persevering with my search for a profession as a Network Technician. One touch upon “Moving Forward with Veterans Forward ” Great article. Thanks for sharing your story. I wish you the most effective of luck. Your email a ddress won't be printed. Required fields are marked * Comment Name * Email * Website Subscribe me to your mailing record Receive our newsletters, breaking information alerts, and more! Veterans Forward Orientation Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Nebraska Residents! Careers by National Able Network: An Online Orientation for Illinois Residents! View More…