Post-Military IT Employment

Does anyone here have some insight, or even general advice into transitioning to civilian employment after the military, specifically federal GS jobs?

Some background:
>Separate in 2 years
>Will have 4 years experience in an enterprise-level network ops center
>With any luck will have CCNP completed
>Should have 3/4 of my degree completed

I'm thinking about this far out, so I can be well prepared when the time comes. Should I try to jump right into the job market, or should I take a year and use the GI Bill to go to school?
Any advice about IT, GS jobs, contracting, etc, would be greatly appreciated.

>enlisting
You might as well kill yourself now

Yeah getting college paid for is pretty bad desu.

A lot of companies have very large quantities of veteran employees. There are also a bunch of military head hunters who can put you into some nice positions and really help you figure out where your skills can take you.

You can do that as an officer too retard

>Officer
No thank you. You become an officer one of three ways:
>AF Academy
>Your life fucking sucks for the first 2 years and only kind of sucks for the second 2
>Incur a 6 year ADSC, with 4 years of Academy, 10 year total time commitment

>ROTC
>Go to college on your own dime, try to pick up a contract + get a decent AFSC while balancing college life with ROTC shit
>Incur an ADSC, 8+ years total time

>OTS
>Get a degree on your own dime, 50/50 shot of actually getting an OTS slot, endure 3 months of ass
>Incur 4 year ADSC (not as big of a time sink)

Also, officers do very little hands on technical work and mostly write policy/make decisions.

lol joining as officer to pay for college. it's like a catch 22. I can tell you haven't been in the military.

Go get a job, and try to find a way to do school while you work

They have loan forgiveness, still paying for college but indirectly.

Treasure your Top Secret clearance. It's your key.

If you think you can handle full time schooling while working, do it.

t.former GS