Kate Garrison

Welcome! My name is Kate and this is a blog about my job search as a military wife.

Here is a little bit of a background story:
My unemployment dilemma comes from the fact that I have lived in 4 states (going on 5) in the past 2 years. In May, 2011, I graduated from the University of Colorado at Boulder with a degree in Psychology and Linguistics. I moved to California to start my internship at the W Hotel San Francisco in Human Resources one month later. It was fun, I learned a lot, and was even offered a job after my internship was over. That’s when I got the phone call from my soon-to-be-husband, Shelby, who is in the U.S. Coast Guard- We were moving to Virginia.

I moved out there and began my job search, thinking I would have a great career within the month. Well, a few more months went by and I had no leads. Once I finally had a job opportunity at a sister hotel to the W Hotel, we found out we got orders to move once again, this time to North Carolina.

This town had even less opportunities than the last. The problem with living here was that it was a Coast Guard town, so potential employers automatically knew I was a Coast Guard wife and that I would probably be moving again in a few months (which was true). This left me unemployed once again for the duration of our time here.

To keep myself on track despite the lack of job opportunities, I enrolled at the University of California at Berkeley Extension to obtain my Certificate in Marketing. Later, I began Career Coaching with a military spouse named Stacy Swearengen to create a Portable Career Plan and started marketing for a military spouse owned company called Hero On My Arm. I will be finished with my Certificate in Marketing in April and will begin applying the steps I learned from Stacy Swearengen soon, because guess what… We’re moving again! This time to Clearwater, Florida!