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How underemployment affects self-respect during military transition

I have been working retail for four months because it was the only job I could get and every day I die a little watching eighteen-year-olds call in sick because they are hungover.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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You're stuck in a job beneath you, and every shift chips away at your sense of who you are.

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