Just Hired 2 days before freeze!

[IracknBack]

Just got on board with the DoD at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. My 2nd day of inprocessing the hiring freeze went into effect. I'm a workload forecaster in the Strategic Planning Department. Thrilled to be here finally after applying for over 2 years.

Background - 7 years in the Army. 23 months total in Iraq between Jan 2004 and Oct 2006. Med-boarded in 2008. Information systems Analyst while in uniform. Graduated UW with a business degree in 2012 and am now here.

Really excited to have a career instead of another crappy job and really hope to take the advice/knowledge of the people here to build a retirement account I can hopefully use one day. Only 30 years old now so not 100% convinced we'll have a government capable of paying retirement/bills/pensions when I'm finally old enough but gonna try anyway.

can't wait to get on a leader board!

- Jon

 

[James48843]

Welcome Jon- glad you are here.

Yes, you'll do great now that you are working and getting TSP.

Best of luck to you!

 

[RealMoneyIssues]

Just got on board with the DoD at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. My 2nd day of inprocessing the hiring freeze went into effect. I'm a workload forecaster in the Strategic Planning Department. Thrilled to be here finally after applying for over 2 years.

Background - 7 years in the Army. 23 months total in Iraq between Jan 2004 and Oct 2006. Med-boarded in 2008. Information systems Analyst while in uniform. Graduated UW with a business degree in 2012 and am now here.

Really excited to have a career instead of another crappy job and really hope to take the advice/knowledge of the people here to build a retirement account I can hopefully use one day. Only 30 years old now so not 100% convinced we'll have a government capable of paying retirement/bills/pensions when I'm finally old enough but gonna try anyway.

can't wait to get on a leader board!

- Jon

Welcome aboard and congrats for squeeking in

Thank you for your service!!

 

[Scout333]

Welcome aboard! You've already made a great first step! Lots of really smart folks here! Good luck with your investing!

 

[JimmyJoe]

Just got on board with the DoD at the Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Bremerton, WA. My 2nd day of inprocessing the hiring freeze went into effect. I'm a workload forecaster in the Strategic Planning Department. Thrilled to be here finally after applying for over 2 years.

Background - 7 years in the Army. 23 months total in Iraq between Jan 2004 and Oct 2006. Med-boarded in 2008. Information systems Analyst while in uniform. Graduated UW with a business degree in 2012 and am now here.

Really excited to have a career instead of another crappy job and really hope to take the advice/knowledge of the people here to build a retirement account I can hopefully use one day. Only 30 years old now so not 100% convinced we'll have a government capable of paying retirement/bills/pensions when I'm finally old enough but gonna try anyway.

can't wait to get on a leader board!

- Jon

You sound like a person capable of leading the tracker. Welcome.

 

[tsptalk]

Welcome Jon!

 

[Show-me]

Welcome to the fray!

 

[JTH]

Welcome,

 

[wavecoder]

awesome dude, welcome!

 

[99percent]

Welcome! Lots of good info here. Read, read, read!

 

[Frixxxx]

Welcome and Good Luck!

 

[MrJohnRoss]

Thank you for your service, brother.

Wishing you much success in your future investments.

My #1 piece of advice: Sock away as much as you possibly can to get your retirement account built up as quickly as possible.

Good luck,

JR

 

[nnuut]

Welcome to TSPTalk. May you have a great career and build your TSP to it's max.
Best of luck
Norman

 

[Handballer]

Welcome Jon. Good luck on your new job. Thanks for your military service.
Looking forward to you climging up the leader board. I'm way up there at #746.

 

[uscfanhawaii]

Welcome to the boards, iracknback (great name!). Put as much as you can in your TSP....and watch it GROW!