Students seeking employment need more access to information about military jobs and career opportunities.

Counselors should encourage all students to look to federal employment in the military as a first choice rather than a last.

With students futures at stake, they should be made aware of many options. The industrial age, where pension and 401-Ks had much significance, is dying.

The development of the information age has left few remnants of the classic 40-year retirement plan.

The military comes with a 20-year retirement plan. Don’t even have to think about takeover or buy out risk. You retire young enough to launch a second career or business.

You receive your pension while getting free training for the transition into your additional income.

Lets face it, the future of social security looks a bit shaky. It might be changing soon, plan B is a good thing.

Although downsizing is at times a concern for marginal performers, job security is pretty much a sure bet for those who apply themselves.

You may have to apply yourself just to get in.

When recruiters ask, ‘do you have what it takes?’ they mean it. More than 70 percent of applicants are turned down.

There is an entrance exam you must pass in order to be considered. Modern American warriors are smarter than the enemy. Would you want them any other way?

Many applicants fail the entrance exam. Insufficient algebra and English skills disqualify many but just as with the Student Aptitude Test there are all sorts of study aids to get you prepared.

Fitness, and believe it or not, drug screening disqualify many more applicants.

If you choose to serve in the military, you will be fit. If you make a career of it you will continue to be fit into your middle age.

If fitness is important to you, consider a career where it is part of the job description. Can you earn the opportunity to be a fitness instructor in the military. That job description is very different than any of the folks working at your local gym.

Rather than transferring to the university system for advanced training, consider the advanced training that’s a part of day-to-day life in the military.

Time served in the military is like a paid investment. You get paid while you get training and getting experience.

It’s only for those who want to step up when they step out into the real world. You can’t get any more real than the military. You grow up quick. It’s a career for those who seek challenge, adventure and achievement.

It’s the real world folks. Are you ready for it? Can you handle reality?

With an honorable discharge or retirement you are a prime target number one for potential employers. You be equipped with the skills and experiences the marketplace is looking for. With discipline, responsibility and many other positive attributes as part of their personalities, veterans are actively sought after for management and leadership positions.

A big bunch of those military scientists and technicians are young people about to enter the job market as your competition. They’ll have first class education and years of hands on training with the very latest technology.

It would boost your income potential to apply for a technology job with years of experience even before that technology is available to the public. Might it grease the skids to department head, middle management or better if you have experience with the latest.

Military recruiters are not just looking for numbers to fill the ranks, they are looking for people with leadership potential. If you find the military life comfortable it can be more than a job choice. It can be a career choice.

After just 20 years, a comfortable pension is available. Depending on how far up the ranks you climb, it can be very comfortable. After discharge, you’re young, trained, experienced and set up for success. Now you offer potential employers leadership and management skills so absent in our education system.

The experience will be intense. You will be in charge. People will depend on you and you will earn the respect you receive.

Some jobs are more dangerous than others. But with any military job you may end up in harms way just because of where we sometimes work.