Author Topic: My job application... (Read 910 times)

BlueJ1 · « **on:** January 22, 2008, 09:46:20 PM »

...in 4 years. Upon my Honorable Discharge from the Navy in less then 4 years I will be searching for a new job. Ive been looking on monster and other job websites for a job that would fit my field. Sadly there are very few or due to my age I do not know the right way to look. I know its early yet and a good deal can change in 4 years, but I like to plan ahead for my future. So anyone here, being a aviation (of sorts) community I figured would increase my odds.

I am a Aviation Electrician. Meaning I fix the wiring and electrical systems on aircraft. I will also soon be attending a school for fiber optics which is the future of our systems. I will also be trained in repair and troubleshooting of the computers themselves on the aircraft. The computer part of the aircraft is another rate, Aviation Technician, but My rate and that rate share a shop and jobs. So both rates cross train each other to spread out the workload and benefit our education. I am also training the the rate of Aviation Ordnance, mostly CADs (Cartridge Activated Devices). More aircraft specific I am trained to work and fix the MH-60S Knighthawk and the MH-60R Seahawk. Both of the aircraft are the newest helicopters introduced to the Navy and will be replacing almost all other versions of helicopters we utilize.

Anyone with a tip on where to start looking or a company will be very much appreciated.

Thank you kindly ahead of time.

~~Blue~~

Wolfala · « **Reply #1 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:48:33 PM »

Get your A&P, and you can apply just about anywhere. Hell, go troubleshoot engines for GE.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #2 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:50:50 PM »

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Originally posted by Wolfala
Get your A&P, and you can apply just about anywhere. Hell, go troubleshoot engines for GE.

Dumb question. What does A&P stand for? I got military acronyms down, its the real life ones that give me trouble.

Thankyou.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #3 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:52:47 PM »

Airframe & Powerplant...I think.

Wolfala · « **Reply #4 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:53:20 PM »

Civilian name for it would be an Airframe and Powerplant mechanics license.

You can test out for it with equivalent military experience when you are released to the world, but make sure your MOS says Aircraft Maintenance, etc.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #5 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:54:56 PM »

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Originally posted by DiabloTX
Airframe & Powerplant...I think.

Wolfala answered this part. Thankyou.

I dont blame the Navy for not educating us on jobs when we get out and what we'll need. It keeps those of us who joined in our teens in because we're lost when it comes to adapting to real life. Might just be me tho.

john9001 · « **Reply #6 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:55:09 PM »

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Originally posted by BlueJ1
Dumb question. What does A&P stand for? I got military acronyms down, its the real life ones that give me trouble.

Thankyou.

airframe and power plant, they are two separate certifications.

ASTAC · « **Reply #7 on:** January 22, 2008, 09:55:27 PM »

Already thinking about getting out? This time last year you sounded like a career guy.

Thats okay, after 14 years I'm calling it quits myself. Navy's just not what it used to be.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #8 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:02:19 PM »

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Originally posted by ASTAC
Already thinking about getting out? This time last year you sounded like a career guy.

Thats okay, after 14 years I'm calling it quits myself. Navy's just not what it used to be.

Its not what I signed up for. Im aching to actually DO something. I joined to protect my friends and family. So far Ive been in alittle over a year now and Ive done nothing but sit on my arse. The first 8 months of my life after boot I sat around waiting for one school and then another. Miss my E-4 exam by a fraction of a point. I figure now Im finally in my job and the fleet of sorts, shore duty for 2 years

, and I'll really learn my job and whats what. No longer then 2 months at my squadron they send me TAD to the barracks for at least 4 months. The same old bs I was doing waiting for school. Ive heard it everytime I say I want to go to the real fleet, that Im lucky Im shore duty and will be wishing I was back there. But really, I dont. Over 3 years of my 5 year contract I'll be stateside. Now Im within driving distance of my home in NY on a weekend. I feel like Im screwing over the people of the U.S. and my family. I put a package in last month to go IA to Iraq or Afghanistan. It was turned down because I was "needed" to go TAD to the barracks.

But like I said, alot can change in 4 years. Im still young and dumb. Tomorrow I may want to stay in the rest of my life as a E-3.

ASTAC, are you active? If you dont me asking.

Ripsnort · « **Reply #9 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:07:56 PM »

https://jobs.boeing.com/JobSeeker/JobSearch?visited=true

DiabloTX · « **Reply #10 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:14:24 PM »

I feel what you're going through Blue. That was exactly me 22 years ago. I signed up in the ET "A" program, signed on for a 6 year contract and then started 2 years of BEE, A, and C schools. I never made it past BEE. After 9 months I was going stir crazy and voluntarily dropped out of school to go to the fleet undesignated. I got really lucky though. I spent exactly 10 hours in deck department before I got recruited to go to the cargo division.

Hang in there. It goes by MUCH faster than you think. It only seems like yesterday I was leaving the quarterdeck in Naples, Italy to process out. But it was 17 and half years ago.

I did go back in the Navy in an active reserve status after 9/11 and the first 3 years of that were a lot of fun. We worked hard and did our jobs and were left alone for the most part, very minimal mickey mouse BS. The last 3 years sucked as everything was micro-managed and went to hell in a handbasket. When my contract was up last September I chose not to re-up. My Chief's were like "Wagner, you're not re-upping??!?!?!??!" I said hell no, not now, not ever. Navy has definitely gotten worse since I was active duty.

Wolfala · « **Reply #11 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:14:27 PM »

Rip,

If I told you how many jobs I applied to at Boeing, (Its over 50 by now) you would **** yourself. Haven't heard a damn thing back from any one of them.

ASTAC · « **Reply #12 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:19:10 PM »

Yeah...14 Years in so far. almost 11 of that is sea duty. E-6 with no hopes of ever making Chief (I run my mouth too much these days)

I think what has really done me in is the year turn around between deployments. I don't mind that so much, but when they fill up that year with a bunch of misc. underway time, a 3 month yard period(when the ship needs 6), then expect the ship to meet all our deployment certifications compressed into a few weeks which leaves no room for any mistakes. The pace is getting crazy.
with so much money going into new shipbuilding programs and the war on terror, we can't get much needed repairs. The ship was designed for a 15 year service life and we are going on 30. This thing leaks like crazy. The paint is quite literally keeping the water out. Add to that the constant threat of an IA hanging over your head (which not really a problem, but quite disruptive if you are not a volunteer).

Granted I know that the army and marines have it much worse having to actually be in Iraq all the time, but most of them live for that stuff. My ship is stuck doing counter narcotics a useless job in the big scheme of things, so I guess you can add that it feels like our mission isn't important.no matter how much you capture since for every ton we get 100 tons gets through.

BlueJ1 · « **Reply #13 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:42:49 PM »

Thankyou guys. I appreciate it. Nice to know its not just me as a booter thats seeing something wrong these days. The soon to come downsizing our higher ups keep threatening us with are not helping my enthusiasm very much. Seems to me all the older guys I like are getting out now before its to late leaving us booters with the left overs. My LPO ,SH1, for instance...but he's another story.

DiabloTX · « **Reply #14 on:** January 22, 2008, 10:47:04 PM »

Well, at least you aren't in the position I was in at your age. The girl I dated all through high school had promised to be with me through my Navy times and get married after I got out was actually out whoring herself to any guy with a heartbeat while I was proudly serving and protecting her right to be as much of a slut and a ***potato as she wanted to be.

Not that I am bitter about it.