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I’m reposting completely since I butchered my prior post, I need help getting my wife on board with me transferring from the national guard to active duty

The guard interferes with my civilian jobs, I can’t keep a job due to being in the guard and the places that I can hold a job either don’t pay nearly enough or threaten to fire me due to the guard. Most of the time we’re living paycheck to paycheck, I don’t want to have to wonder every month if I’m going to be able to keep my wife and kid fed and keep a roof over their heads.

Her argument against it is PCS and not being able to choose where you live, deployments, rotations, and TDY. She’s not a fan of the idea and me constantly going to the field with me being a 12b

My main talking points are “free” insurance
Community resources
Grocery bill is cut by 1/3 with the commissary (proved at WPAB)
Steady pay including BAH
On post/ off post daycare services
She works in a field that is understaffed

Seeing how active can provide my wife and kid a better future ontop of I would love to go active at this point I feel like it’s the right decision but my wife doesn’t see it that way and in the end it is a family decision.

Ill take a spicy deluxe and a small sprite

I’m wanting to get into the iron workers but something one of the guys I talked to about the apprenticeship bugged me. He said although it won’t effect my schooling at the local I may be prone to being laid off more or be one firsts to get laid off by the contractor due to my guard obligations.
Is this normal practice/ have you’ve seen this before?
Unless I’m wrong it sounds like it violates USERRA Laws (Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Rights Act)

In the Columbus area looking into the apprenticeship

How well do they work with National guardsmen
And how hard is it to get into

I know it’s not ideal but is it allowed and how does it work if I move a few states over? We don’t love the area we’re in but we are stuck in our lease for a little over a year but I’m not wanting to wait any longer to join the union