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...county sheriff's office, hovered near the the railroad company's booth, peered at the slightly mangy Aflac duck. Nothing offered at this recent job fair resembles his previous occupation, driving and manning guns on a Stryker armored vehicle in Mosul, Iraq. No matter: what he needs is a paycheck with benefits, his first full-time job since separating from the Army in April 2006. He's 25. He's living with his toddler son and pregnant wife in her parents' house. He's getting way too friendly with his Xbox. It's go time...
...fair was his lucky break. He applied to the local cable company, which called him the next day. After a drug test, he was hired. He started work as a technician April 16. "It's not the most glorious job, but it's steady and it's a paycheck," he says. "I'm happy. My wife's happy." And he's looking ahead. At the job fair, he also came across DeVry University, which had a booth there to entice vets to return to school. Hughes is signing up for online courses to learn to design video games...
...spearheaded by students from the IOP and recently endorsed by the Undergraduate Council. We hope, however, that in working out the details of such a system, administrators will define “public service” as broadly as possible. Students already face strong incentives to take a big paycheck on Wall Street, and the University should not deter students who wish to devote their summer to a nobler cause. Many admirable summer internships and jobs are unpaid, and a student should not have to be forced to select from a limited menu of government and community service jobs...
After 20 Cambridge Police officers appealed to the city council last night— saying that officers who also serve in military combat receive a smaller net paycheck than other city employees pulling double duty—the council passed a measure to give all enlisted employees their full city salary while in combat. Surrounded by supporters and colleagues in police uniform, Detectives Thomas Glynn and Brian Branley—each of whom served in the Massachusetts Army National Guard—said “other city employees have received full pay during their deployments?...
...most actors, though, including the most distinguished, playing a rotter offers a holiday from more serious fare; a nice paycheck after all those worthy little independent films; a chance to retune the actor's instrument and play it in a darker, bolder key; or just the fun of being in a movie everyone will see. We heard from a dozen of them and squirreled out the secrets of their craft: the Seven Rules of Movie Villainy...