WVOld, I started out my working life, after the Navy, as a veterans counselor under the old Veterans Administration, most specifically helping fellow vets get their GI Bill checks, but any other applicable benefits, from home loan guarantees to dependent educational benefits. I was stationed at several campuses, so it was a good transition from school. Then I found my science writing/editing job. But it was good just to get into the middle class, have a wife, an apartment with a kitchen, and a little vacation money, for examples. I scrimped in the Navy and saved enough to pay out-of-state tuition in grad school and later to buy a new VW bug, and still later, the downpayment on a house.
