Ok, You’re a nutcake in the eyes of everyone with a b-r-a-i-n because even I know that there are a small amount of jobs in the bio sciences compared to those that majored in them. If your ass wanted job security then you should’ve majored in petroleum engineering, electrical engineering, computer science/DB management, MSN in nursing, etc… heck, an idiot knows that you can’t major in biology and just hop, skip around the word and think you can find a job! Who’s fault is that? VA? Mine? No… it’s your damn fault for not doing your homework, and now you want to come on this site and bitch. Woman, get your sh_t together and major in something that is needed. Biology is great, but it’s the MASTERS DEGREE that means something. An undergraduate degree is nothing but what a high school diploma was a decade or so ago. Wake the hell up and smell the coffee lady! I know, I know, if you went to a decent school you had to take university physics, calculus, chemistry, blah, blah, blah… but if you wanted to WORK, your ass should’ve majored in engineering or something relevant to what is needed in industry… then get a J.D. or MBA in finance just to stay marketable. You know the drill. You can’t just sit on your ho- ho eating fat ass. . . You have to DO something to stay marketable.

The world isn’t against you- but you can’t major in bullsh*t and expect jobs to just pop up everywhere YOU need them to be. Puhleeze…. you need to really take a reality pill in a big way.

The laws are just fine- It’s YOU people that need to wake the hell up to reality! I can’t believe some of this crap that I’m reading here about laws need to change for military spouses, etc., blah, blah.. Didn’t you think about all of this before you got married and pushed out kids? Oh, I guess not- well guess what? That’s YOUR problem Missy! Hmmm… I thought all that stuff out before I got married and had kids. It isn’t a coincidence that I don’t’ have a problem but you all do? No, the reality is that I planned like a mature adult, and you people got marriend, screwed, made babies, and not sit a bitch that life isn’t grand. The law(s) aren’t the problem. It’s you. Get your sh*t together.

I can only address the “military divorce” statement because that was mine. I am the owner of the blog, I have degrees from two Ivy League Universities and my husband is an attorney (he was not JAG, however). There are attorneys that specialize in many areas of law, including military divorce. I did not mean to imply there were laws specifically related to military divorce but rather that there are attorneys experienced in dealing with military couples who are divorcing. And, indeed, there are.

As to the rest of the vitriol, you are making a number of assumptions here about the character of my commenters and attacking their character and intelligence without cause. Personally, I did not apply for the benefits even though I was eligible, because of my own personal political beliefs about this.

You are welcome to share your knowledge and express your opinion here. Please do it with greater civility, however.

Thank you.

You are responsible for finding your ass a new job! Local, state or federal government isn’t your nurse maid- if you quit a job, then your butt should’ve had something in place before you stopped your last job! You don’t have to move at the same time your hubby does. if you don’t go with your hubby, much of the time he can stay in the barracks at his new duty station until you (and the kids if you have them) come to join him. Don’t try to pull the wool over my eyes because I’ve “been there done that in two branches of service as the service member AND the spouse!

If your butt would’ve gotten a college education in a decent major before getting married and pushing kids out, you’d not have to worry much about finding work. That said finding a job is YOUR responsibility NOT that of anyone else on the planet. Can’t hack it? Then your behind should’ve not got married to a services member and should’ve kept your butt working at the local Dairy Queen!

And for the nut-cake poster that mentions someone needs to find a lawyer that specializes in “military divorce” …. there isn’t a such thing! (whew you people are about to drive me to drinking tonight!) Divorce is a CIVIL issue (that’s right… CIVIL) which means the military doesn’t have diddly squat to do with it past enforcement of whatever decree was passed down from the CIVIL court. Lastly, JAG attorneys are not versed in civil matters because most of them got out of law school, have never worked in the civil sector, and are in the mil. as an easy way out or to simply pay for their student loans (same with many military veterinarians … but that’s another thread for another day). Geesh people!

You don’t have to get a divorce in the state your in, nor do you have to have child support decided in the state that you’re in as long as you have a legal “interest” in another state (property, etc.)

heck you can get divorced in one state, and have child support decided in another state. Educated people know this and do it everyday. What’s bad is that many attorneys don’t know this (probably because their not versed in family law because it pays poorly and law students avoid it like the plague). ANYWAY… wake the heck up and do some of your own research because some of you here are so far off base that it’s about to make my head freaking explode!

Ok, look “Lynn” you didn’t HAVE to leave your job. Just because you’re married and your hubby gets relocated doesn’t mean you HAVE to leave your job. If you come down with some debilitating allergy that closes up your airway and you HAVE to move to another state in order to keep from dying… then THAT is *having* to leave your job. Otherwise your butt just **DECIDED** or ELECTED to leave your job. See the difference? Dang woman! You’re killing me with all this drama.

Freaking some lady named “Erica” below quit her poor paying job and all the sudden wants benefits. What? Are you out of your pea brained mind? Benefits are for those who work their buns off and get laid off silly girl. Not for those that up and quit a perfectly good job. I can’t believe the intellect here, you people are wanting something that you’re not even entitled to on a good day.

If I was the receptionist at the unemployment office I’d stand up and tell you to your faces to jump into the hand basket and go straight to hell !