5 Key Military Transition Concepts & Tips
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This document provides 5 concepts and 5 tips for life after serving in the Marine Corps. The concepts advise seeing your time in the Corps as a small part of your life, adjusting to having more free time and responsibilities as a civilian, recognizing that transition will be difficult and require independence, and not expecting much from civilians thanking you for your service. The tips are to build a LinkedIn profile, choose a location to live, talk to people for job and education opportunities, ask others for specific help during transition, and start small by setting a date to accomplish one transition task.
5 Key Military Transition Concepts & Tips
- 1. 5 Concepts & 5 Tips You Should Know about Life After the Corps William Treseder william.treseder@gmail.com
- 2. – Jim “Mad Dog” Mattis (USMC, Retired) “You cannot allow any of your people to avoid the brutal facts. If they start living in a dream world, it’s going to be bad.”
- 3. Concept #1 We all need perspective
- 4. The Marine Corps should be a proud part of your life.
- 5. But it shouldn’t be your whole life.
- 6. Your Life in the Corps 25% 75% The Rest of Your Life Marines
- 7. Your Life in the Corps 25% 75% The Rest of Your Life Marines This is for a career Marine
- 8. Perspective on Your Life in the Corps! 5% 95% The Rest of Your Life Marines This is for a 4-year Marine
- 9. Think about all the life in front of you.
- 10. Do something with it!
- 12. Don’t be that guy.
- 13. Concept #2 A Day in the Life
- 14. The daily grind can be rough in the Corps.
- 16. The goal is to make it through the BS.
- 17. The challenge in the civilian world is the opposite.
- 18. You need to figure out how to invest your time.
- 19. Your Daily Life Corps 20% 25% 10% 10% 10% 25% Sleep PT Field Day XBox/PS4 Wait Around Deal with Idiot LCpls
- 20. Your Daily Life Changes! Corps 20% 25% 10% 10% 10% 25% Sleep PT Field Day XBox/PS4 Wait Around Deal with Idiot LCpls Post-Corps 75% 25% Sleep Whatever You Want
- 21. Your Daily Life Changes! Post-Corps 75% 25% Sleep Whatever You Want It’s really easy to waste all this time!
- 22. That’s a new skill you need to build.
- 23. Self-direction in a much wider world of possibilities.
- 24. Everything hinges on the ability to set and pursue priorities.
- 25. Concept #3 The transition trap
- 27. Much harder than you think it is.
- 28. Definitely harder than those split screens images make it seem.
- 30. Transition is a process not an event.
- 31. Life Responsibilities Corps • Don’t get fat* *If you get fat, make sure you can still do 20 pull-ups.
- 32. Life Responsibilities Change! Post-Corps • Employment • Education • Health care • Rent • Food • Anything else that goes wrong Corps • Don’t get fat* *If you get fat, make sure you can still do 20 pull-ups.
- 33. These extra responsibilities are hard to deal with.
- 34. You will struggle to adjust.
- 35. We all do.
- 38. – Arnold Toynbee (emphasis added) “But the military virtues are not in a class apart. They are virtues which are virtues in every walk of life, nonetheless virtues for being jewels set in blood and iron. They include such qualities as courage, fortitude, and loyalty.”
- 39. Transitioning well requires a lot of work.
- 40. Unlike the rest of your military career, you can’t look to the Corps for help.
- 41. 100:5
- 42. Know what that is?
- 43. The ratio of training days in boot camp and SOI versus TAP class.
- 45. Because the Corps is about winning wars.
- 46. Don’t expect it to give you anything…
- 47. Except the skills you already have to make it on your own.
- 49. If you use them well, that’s more than enough.
- 51. Concept #5 Forget about civilians
- 53. Thank you for your service!
- 54. Except not.
- 55. Oh well!
- 56. What does it cost to thank someone?
- 57. $0.00
- 59. Free?
- 60. Try again.
- 61. Worthless.
- 62. So what the heck should you do?
- 63. Tip #1
- 64. Build a LinkedIn profile Start with veterans.linkedin.com. This lets you find people, but also lets people find you!
- 65. Tip #2
- 66. Pick a location Everything else is determined by the place you decide to live.
- 67. Tip #3
- 68. Talk to people Ask them about good jobs and schools.
- 69. Tip #4
- 70. Ask for help Pride is your enemy when you first get out. Be specific about things you need.
- 71. Tip #5
- 72. Start small Clarify one thing that’s important to do for your transition, then set a date to do it.