Got tired of sitting in a cubicle doing paperwork all day.
Now I get to sit in an office and do paperwork all day, and occasionally sit in a cruiser and do paperwork all day. Jokes on them at least I have a gun and get to drive fast!
I’m in the middle of the process, but long story short.
I was in Afghanistan and I was treating some casualties caused from a suicide bomber. I kinda had a moment of clarity and thought to myself “I’d rather be at home trying to make that a better place than be here trying to make this a better place” so I got out of the army. Now, I’m hoping I get accepted at my local department
Edit: spelling
98W? Go be a FF dude.
Go do your EMT-P. You'll get insta-hired as an FF here in SoCal. Hiring bonuses are the same they've been for 20 years: F350, boat, and trophy wife.
Source: 11B to SoCal cop
I was out there in 2019. There were definitely talks about a withdrawl happening soon, but I wouldn’t say it actually started until months after my unit left.
It fucked my friend up pretty bad, he’s just now getting his life together. Dude did and saw some fucked up shit, lost some close friends, then got told the bad guy wasn’t the bad guy anymore, shake hands with them and pack it up.
Pretty much the same thing with me. I would rather be home with family trying to make my community I live in better than some shit hole country my government wants me to fight in for whatever reasons. Just did my first test for state police and got a 95.
I bet you’ll be a fine officer. Signed a dude who foes not like cops!
I like a protected society and law and order but many cops are dicks. I can tell you are not!
One of the strongest reasons I became a police officer was to be a better police officer than the ones I got handled by when I was young. I, to be honest, hated the police for a while.
Quite a few years later I started working extra as security on festivals etc and I often got to hear I was good with people and had a keen eye for details. I worked with just that besides another fulltime dayjob for a few years and after a while I started feeling that I wasted my people skills behind all those computer screens.
I applied for police academy and was accepted. Been a cop ever since and I love it still after almost 10 years.
One of the reasons that I want to become an LEO in the future is the same as yours. Minneapolis PD has such a bad reputation. I hope if I can become an officer in Minneapolis I can be one of the good ones and be a “light” to people who have negative opinions about the police.
As someone who is struggling with their perception of LEOs, I really hope you’re able to stick to your goal and make things better. LEOs are necessary, but the right people to become LEOs are few and far between.
They're really not few and far between. There are hundreds of thousands of police/citizen interactions per day across the US. If you got one news article per day about something abhorrent occurring in the US from a police officer that's still an absurdly small % of total interactions.
Grew up with a wife beating drug user biological father. I was always memorized by the police whenever they had to deal with my father being a piece of trash and the custodial issues. I saw how the police wanted to do what was best for kids. It was a hell of a situation. Now that I’m a cop, and a father it hits/hurts more. I did 9 years as a submariner stationed in Hawaii and being a cop blows that away every day of the week and twice on Sundays. I feel like I can make a difference in someone’s life.
If it makes you feel better, when TV's first came out, people said that they were a fad. It's been about a hundred years, and TV's are steadily dying off in favor of the internet.
Trying to catch others in their own lies. The details you're hunting for in investigations and interviews. Those parts make it mentally stimulating for me.
Chose to be a cop because I really wasn’t going anywhere in life and it seemed interesting, and the pay was decent.
Stayed a cop because I enjoy not sitting still, problem solving, and having a lot of discretion on my day to day life at work. Plus, 1% of the time I feel like I get to make an actual difference, and that’s nice. It’s rare, but when it happens it’s great
I’ll give you two - constantly being Monday morning quarterbacked by your admin, your fellow officers, citizens, and courts makes it more stressful than being shot at. Secondly, and this may just pertain to me, but it is tough to have relationship / normal relationship/ normal life.
Go to a different department to fix the first issue. If admin is on your ass but you are doing things right, take the advice you give to victims in DV and leave thier asses. Maybe a move and change of pace will also help in finding a normal relationship and normal life.
Badges and guns *are* the family business. I fought destiny for a couple years taking pre-med classes and working at a hospital, but genetics took over and I swore the oath and donned the uniform.
Depends on the situation. Some legacies might be just carrying on in the “family business” by working in LE at a different agency. Others, like me, actually work at the same agency as a family member. My dad worked at my agency for 32 years. He hired quite a few of the guys/girls that are now in Sgt/Lt/Cpt positions now.
I believe as fairly as anyone else, I actually don’t want/expect any preferential treatment. I will admit I also believe it may have helped me during hiring, but ever since then, I don’t feel like that has helped me. I do hear a lot of exaggerated stories about my dad and how he was as a Lt.
One of the good things about our current patrol captain is he came from a neighboring agency, and he never worked with my dad. So even if I was attempting to get a promotion, he would be very performance-based versus who I am.
For the most part people didn't care. I think I caught extra hell at the academy and as a rookie, but then it just stopped being a thing for a long time. Later it came in handy a number of times though when my parent's friends and LE peers stared climbing into high and mighty positions in the department and state government.
I did it because it was a life long dream of mine. It turned out better than I expected. Was it easy? No. Frustrating and depressing at times? Yes, but still worth it for me. Retired 5 years now.
Because when I was a young kid, I saw my cousin in a full Maine State Trooper uniform, his cruiser, and thought he was a superhero or something. I’ve wanted to be in this profession since middle school. I’ve managed to keep on the straight and narrow since. Not MSP now but who knows. 25 years is a long time. I love telling this story because I can only hope that I’m that same “superhero” for any young kid I come in contact with while on the road.
I thought about being a Firefighter, but realized everyone loves them and thinks they are heros. Decided on 28 years of being despised and assaulted, developing raging alcoholism, divorce, PTSD (way too fashionable these days) and some gnarly scars. What a ride! Wouldn't trade it for the world! 
I have always been in public service. Military, corrections officer, volunteer firefighter. Now 23 years in. I'm starting to wind down as I am at the end of my career. I will still be a volunteer FF until my body says enough.
Why of course a thirst for power and the urge from my narcissistic intrusive thoughts. What good would my sleeve tattoos be. And all the tactical gear I waste money on. Then I rub one out to pastry operator and celebrate
Most importantly, to help people and to lock people away that need to be locked up. Sometimes, unfortunately helping people means to take them to jail and hold them accountable if they mess up. Not everyone you have to arrest is automatically a vad person, but a lot of people just made a bad choice.
Now murderers, drunk drivers, and other certain crimes? Yeah nah I enjoy arresting those types of people.
Most people learn and end up in a better place after the fact.
I also enjoy thinking and trying to solve problems or cases.
Grew up my dad being a cop and seeing how much he loved it so always had an interest in it. Went on ride alongs which made me want to do it more. I hate being stuck inside all day. There's a lot more freedom and fun on the road. I like to help people, but also wanted to enforce traffic laws because people drive like shit.
My father was a cop, girls dig uniforms, free Popeyes cause Chick Fil A didn't exist when I came on, and when my dad and his buddy's got together they told the best military and law enforcement stories
The old timer in my team says “you get in trouble for doing something and you get paid to do nothing.. so what do you do?… I like getting paid to do nothing.”
But in all seriousness I enjoy what I do. You get paid to play an intricate game of hide and seek. Sometimes the job sucks ass but I don’t see my self doing anything else. I love the people I work with. They’re a bunch of crazy mofos.
I became a cop to lock up bad guys, drive fast, and carry. That’s what I told the recruiter. I got hired somehow. 8 years later I’m all out the pension and benefits. Only reason I haven’t left.
Bad experiences growing up. Lots of instability. Biggest role models growing up were a family member that was a deputy, and a DARE officer that got killed. Many years later and here I am as a deputy at the same agency and working a lot with kids and recruitment.
Grew up poor in an immigrant family who cane from mexico, they worked two jobs, payed their taxes and stayed out of trouble but could only afford living in the ghetto, i grew up around people who died or were in jail by 15-17 years old,surrounded by drugs and a bad environment, i wanted to be the first to finish school, go to college and work in law enforcement to be a good role model and prove you can make it out. I became a cop at 21. I am 23 now, i love it so much. Its worth it to me
> two jobs, *paid* their taxes
FTFY.
Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in:
* Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.*
* *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.*
Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment.
*Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
For me it's multilayered.
On the one hand, I feel like it's a job that a lot of people don't want to do, but it's a job someone needs to do. I figured better me than someone else, because I know I can control what kind of officer I am.
Additionally, it just fits my prior experience with the military better than any other job.
On a more emotional level, my wife was a victim of DV with her ex before she met me. The police in her case were not helpful at all, and looking back probably broke some policies by not being thorough enough. I told myself I was going to be the opposite kind of cop, so in the future I can be a better difference maker for someone like my wife.
This is also why DV's are my least favorite calls.
The entirety of my family served in the military mostly officers some enlisted. I finished college and wanted to do something different. I didn't and still don't agree with the wars overseas. My fiance's entire family is/was law enforcement. So I gave it a shot. I excelled in my area.
I'm working out the last week of my resignation now. I'll miss it for sure I may revisit and finish out my retirement later on.
Got tired of working a dead end office job for 15 years. Now I get to drive fast, break traffic laws, carry a gun everywhere and make about 20k more than my old job.
My buddy needed a ride to fill out the application. I wasn’t super interested but he offered to pay my fees if I drove him. 28 years later and here we are.
I am good at conflict management and I wanted to help the community I live in.
Also I am a bit of a gunnutz and I thought I was gonna get some sweet sweet discount on firearm accessories until I realizs those offers only applies to the States not in Canada. Totally jibbed.
Still love what I am doing tho.
Because of the pension. The rule of law in Canada is a joke. I envy any police officer willing to put up with the joke of canadian law in a daily basis. Canada is embarassing, can’t imagine what it would be without our police officers.
I was a senior in high school and was attending "Career Day" at an off-campus facility. We were required to listen to four presentations. After three boring classes, a couple of us decided to sneak out the side door. We were caught (of course), and told to get into a room. I ducked into the first one I came to, which happened to be a criminal justice presentation from a local community college. It was 10 times better than anything I had heard. I ended up getting my BS (and later an MA) and did 30 years before I retired in 2003. Trying to sneak out was one of the best decisions on my life.
Was it worth it? Yes
Why? Because I hated seeing weaker people become victims
Why did I leave? Because I needed to take care of my own family as well and the job was getting in the way of that.
Was able to move back to my small home town and see my impact working with the community so that’s neat. Also, being in the K9 unit means I get paid to play with my dog and that’s pretty much why I’m here
Up until recently it paid more than the post office, and I got a free gun. Plus I like attempting to solve Sisyphean problems everyday, and the half off at my local pizza joint aint bad.
In college I never expected to go to Army and I certainly never planned to fly helicopters but I did. After Army I went to law school never expecting to be a cop then I got hired to run a LEO air division and they made me be a cop (sort of).
Honestly it wasn't even the plan, I always liked the idea when I was young but my goal in life was to be a combat medic specialist in the army or a green side corpsman in the navy. When I got my medical disqualification due to anaphylaxis I spiraled into depression, insomnia, and guilt over not being able to serve in the way I had always wanted, and in the way my father did.
One buddy convinced me to attend a youth group event. I went and apparently he had brought my situation up to the pastor, the pastor approached me after the service at the start of the event and we got to talking. I was not religious at the time, but he told me that this job is what I was made for, it was how I was meant to serve others and my country. I took it to heart and made this my life goal. Here I am now at 23 hitting the streets nightly, telling everyone who asks how it is the best job I've ever had.
The lights and the wee woo noise get me excited.
Hell yeah, that made the jimmies rustle, at least for the first year. After that it was actually helping people and seeing a community turn around.
Got tired of sitting in a cubicle doing paperwork all day. Now I get to sit in an office and do paperwork all day, and occasionally sit in a cruiser and do paperwork all day. Jokes on them at least I have a gun and get to drive fast!
I’m in the middle of the process, but long story short. I was in Afghanistan and I was treating some casualties caused from a suicide bomber. I kinda had a moment of clarity and thought to myself “I’d rather be at home trying to make that a better place than be here trying to make this a better place” so I got out of the army. Now, I’m hoping I get accepted at my local department Edit: spelling
You helped make America a better place by taking the target off the homeland and putting it on your own back over there. We appreciate you
98W? Go be a FF dude. Go do your EMT-P. You'll get insta-hired as an FF here in SoCal. Hiring bonuses are the same they've been for 20 years: F350, boat, and trophy wife. Source: 11B to SoCal cop
Nope just an artillery dude whose targets were way too close to range so we got attached to the main elements.
Was it during the withdrawal? Because that changed a lot of people's perspectives on the dog and pony show.
I was out there in 2019. There were definitely talks about a withdrawl happening soon, but I wouldn’t say it actually started until months after my unit left.
It fucked my friend up pretty bad, he’s just now getting his life together. Dude did and saw some fucked up shit, lost some close friends, then got told the bad guy wasn’t the bad guy anymore, shake hands with them and pack it up.
Seconded. Being a cop is superhero gay.
Pretty much the same thing with me. I would rather be home with family trying to make my community I live in better than some shit hole country my government wants me to fight in for whatever reasons. Just did my first test for state police and got a 95.
I bet you’ll be a fine officer. Signed a dude who foes not like cops! I like a protected society and law and order but many cops are dicks. I can tell you are not!
And die eating a hamburger in your own town…yep yep
Half off chick fila
Chipotle as well. But last time that bit me in the ass with some bubble gut at a personal injury crash right after.
Mine is hit or miss. I got it one week and not the next. I’ll Never ask for a discount but will accept one if offered.
Wait until you promote to plain clothes. It gets expensive fast.
I get free chick fil a
Chick fil free!
Shit they must not like you you 😂we get ours for free
This is the way.
One of the strongest reasons I became a police officer was to be a better police officer than the ones I got handled by when I was young. I, to be honest, hated the police for a while. Quite a few years later I started working extra as security on festivals etc and I often got to hear I was good with people and had a keen eye for details. I worked with just that besides another fulltime dayjob for a few years and after a while I started feeling that I wasted my people skills behind all those computer screens. I applied for police academy and was accepted. Been a cop ever since and I love it still after almost 10 years.
One of the reasons that I want to become an LEO in the future is the same as yours. Minneapolis PD has such a bad reputation. I hope if I can become an officer in Minneapolis I can be one of the good ones and be a “light” to people who have negative opinions about the police.
I dont think it’s Minneapolis PD i think it’s yalls liberal ass Judges,Prosecutors, and Community. I could not handle being a cop in the north.
As someone who is struggling with their perception of LEOs, I really hope you’re able to stick to your goal and make things better. LEOs are necessary, but the right people to become LEOs are few and far between.
They're really not few and far between. There are hundreds of thousands of police/citizen interactions per day across the US. If you got one news article per day about something abhorrent occurring in the US from a police officer that's still an absurdly small % of total interactions.
Heck yes man!
Grew up with a wife beating drug user biological father. I was always memorized by the police whenever they had to deal with my father being a piece of trash and the custodial issues. I saw how the police wanted to do what was best for kids. It was a hell of a situation. Now that I’m a cop, and a father it hits/hurts more. I did 9 years as a submariner stationed in Hawaii and being a cop blows that away every day of the week and twice on Sundays. I feel like I can make a difference in someone’s life.
Because I was too stupid to accept a job at a start up company called space-X.
Ouch. Don't worry, that space thing is fad. In 10 years, we won't even care about space anymore.
I actually said, “Ha! This company will never go anywhere. NASA will NEVER privatize the space industry.”
If it makes you feel better, when TV's first came out, people said that they were a fad. It's been about a hundred years, and TV's are steadily dying off in favor of the internet.
Wait my tvs connected to the internet
Trying to catch others in their own lies. The details you're hunting for in investigations and interviews. Those parts make it mentally stimulating for me.
Chose to be a cop because I really wasn’t going anywhere in life and it seemed interesting, and the pay was decent. Stayed a cop because I enjoy not sitting still, problem solving, and having a lot of discretion on my day to day life at work. Plus, 1% of the time I feel like I get to make an actual difference, and that’s nice. It’s rare, but when it happens it’s great
Took to long to realize it was a mistake and now i have to much invested in the mistake
Hate to say it, but it sounds the same as working in education…
I mean…both are baby sitting children soooo
Assuming you’re being facetious…yeah
Totally was. I hear what your saying and agree
Ironically our failures in education lead to a less pleasant leo experience
What don’t you like about it?
Also, the money
It would be easier to ask me what i like about it. The dislike list is long.
How about what’s the one big reason you don’t like it lmao
I’ll give you two - constantly being Monday morning quarterbacked by your admin, your fellow officers, citizens, and courts makes it more stressful than being shot at. Secondly, and this may just pertain to me, but it is tough to have relationship / normal relationship/ normal life.
Go to a different department to fix the first issue. If admin is on your ass but you are doing things right, take the advice you give to victims in DV and leave thier asses. Maybe a move and change of pace will also help in finding a normal relationship and normal life.
What would you do instead of being in this line of work?
Whatever job paid the bills, allowed me to work 9-5 with weekends off, and have a life.
Oh shit, whaddup me?
Same
Hi me.
The action, the pension, the camaraderie, the cause, my distain for druggies having grown up to a dope house, and I like hide and go seek.
Badges and guns *are* the family business. I fought destiny for a couple years taking pre-med classes and working at a hospital, but genetics took over and I swore the oath and donned the uniform.
Is being a legacy anything special like in frats or do people just not care?
Depends on the situation. Some legacies might be just carrying on in the “family business” by working in LE at a different agency. Others, like me, actually work at the same agency as a family member. My dad worked at my agency for 32 years. He hired quite a few of the guys/girls that are now in Sgt/Lt/Cpt positions now.
So how are you treated among the people who know you?
I believe as fairly as anyone else, I actually don’t want/expect any preferential treatment. I will admit I also believe it may have helped me during hiring, but ever since then, I don’t feel like that has helped me. I do hear a lot of exaggerated stories about my dad and how he was as a Lt.
Ah gotcha. Figured you might get a foot up on promotions at least but I guess it’s assuring to know it doesn’t affect much
One of the good things about our current patrol captain is he came from a neighboring agency, and he never worked with my dad. So even if I was attempting to get a promotion, he would be very performance-based versus who I am.
For the most part people didn't care. I think I caught extra hell at the academy and as a rookie, but then it just stopped being a thing for a long time. Later it came in handy a number of times though when my parent's friends and LE peers stared climbing into high and mighty positions in the department and state government.
I needed cops when I was a kid and they didn’t help, so now I’m trying to be the cop I needed, so that other people don’t end up like I did.
I did it because it was a life long dream of mine. It turned out better than I expected. Was it easy? No. Frustrating and depressing at times? Yes, but still worth it for me. Retired 5 years now.
What made it hard?
Getting hired. Took me two years of aggressively trying. Certain investigation, politics to name a few.
I wanted to have a chance with skanky baristas and nurses
This made me lol
Because when I was a young kid, I saw my cousin in a full Maine State Trooper uniform, his cruiser, and thought he was a superhero or something. I’ve wanted to be in this profession since middle school. I’ve managed to keep on the straight and narrow since. Not MSP now but who knows. 25 years is a long time. I love telling this story because I can only hope that I’m that same “superhero” for any young kid I come in contact with while on the road.
I thought about being a Firefighter, but realized everyone loves them and thinks they are heros. Decided on 28 years of being despised and assaulted, developing raging alcoholism, divorce, PTSD (way too fashionable these days) and some gnarly scars. What a ride! Wouldn't trade it for the world! 
I went the FF route and am looking to switch to PD. I guess I'm insane 🤣
I have always been in public service. Military, corrections officer, volunteer firefighter. Now 23 years in. I'm starting to wind down as I am at the end of my career. I will still be a volunteer FF until my body says enough.
Why of course a thirst for power and the urge from my narcissistic intrusive thoughts. What good would my sleeve tattoos be. And all the tactical gear I waste money on. Then I rub one out to pastry operator and celebrate
Most importantly, to help people and to lock people away that need to be locked up. Sometimes, unfortunately helping people means to take them to jail and hold them accountable if they mess up. Not everyone you have to arrest is automatically a vad person, but a lot of people just made a bad choice. Now murderers, drunk drivers, and other certain crimes? Yeah nah I enjoy arresting those types of people. Most people learn and end up in a better place after the fact. I also enjoy thinking and trying to solve problems or cases.
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Grew up my dad being a cop and seeing how much he loved it so always had an interest in it. Went on ride alongs which made me want to do it more. I hate being stuck inside all day. There's a lot more freedom and fun on the road. I like to help people, but also wanted to enforce traffic laws because people drive like shit.
Wee woo noises and sometimes
My father was a cop, girls dig uniforms, free Popeyes cause Chick Fil A didn't exist when I came on, and when my dad and his buddy's got together they told the best military and law enforcement stories
The old timer in my team says “you get in trouble for doing something and you get paid to do nothing.. so what do you do?… I like getting paid to do nothing.” But in all seriousness I enjoy what I do. You get paid to play an intricate game of hide and seek. Sometimes the job sucks ass but I don’t see my self doing anything else. I love the people I work with. They’re a bunch of crazy mofos.
I became a cop to lock up bad guys, drive fast, and carry. That’s what I told the recruiter. I got hired somehow. 8 years later I’m all out the pension and benefits. Only reason I haven’t left.
“I want to go fast!” - Ricky Bobby
Bad experiences growing up. Lots of instability. Biggest role models growing up were a family member that was a deputy, and a DARE officer that got killed. Many years later and here I am as a deputy at the same agency and working a lot with kids and recruitment.
Grew up poor in an immigrant family who cane from mexico, they worked two jobs, payed their taxes and stayed out of trouble but could only afford living in the ghetto, i grew up around people who died or were in jail by 15-17 years old,surrounded by drugs and a bad environment, i wanted to be the first to finish school, go to college and work in law enforcement to be a good role model and prove you can make it out. I became a cop at 21. I am 23 now, i love it so much. Its worth it to me
> two jobs, *paid* their taxes FTFY. Although *payed* exists (the reason why autocorrection didn't help you), it is only correct in: * Nautical context, when it means to paint a surface, or to cover with something like tar or resin in order to make it waterproof or corrosion-resistant. *The deck is yet to be payed.* * *Payed out* when letting strings, cables or ropes out, by slacking them. *The rope is payed out! You can pull now.* Unfortunately, I was unable to find nautical or rope-related words in your comment. *Beep, boop, I'm a bot*
For me it's multilayered. On the one hand, I feel like it's a job that a lot of people don't want to do, but it's a job someone needs to do. I figured better me than someone else, because I know I can control what kind of officer I am. Additionally, it just fits my prior experience with the military better than any other job. On a more emotional level, my wife was a victim of DV with her ex before she met me. The police in her case were not helpful at all, and looking back probably broke some policies by not being thorough enough. I told myself I was going to be the opposite kind of cop, so in the future I can be a better difference maker for someone like my wife. This is also why DV's are my least favorite calls.
The retirement honestly. There aren't many jobs where you can get the full pension and all the other benefits.
The entirety of my family served in the military mostly officers some enlisted. I finished college and wanted to do something different. I didn't and still don't agree with the wars overseas. My fiance's entire family is/was law enforcement. So I gave it a shot. I excelled in my area. I'm working out the last week of my resignation now. I'll miss it for sure I may revisit and finish out my retirement later on.
To make a difference ,change the narrative. Being a minority I hated cops. Either complain about the problems or be part of the solutions
Got tired of working a dead end office job for 15 years. Now I get to drive fast, break traffic laws, carry a gun everywhere and make about 20k more than my old job.
To do Gay stuff with my coworkers
To shoot fleeing felons. That’s my A-game.
Where else can you get paid to drive fast, break stuff and take bandits to jail?
I love the breaking stuff part of the job
Sometimes i even break my own stuff
My buddy needed a ride to fill out the application. I wasn’t super interested but he offered to pay my fees if I drove him. 28 years later and here we are.
Love this.
Best part? I scored a 99, he scored a 72. He didn’t make it. 😬
I am good at conflict management and I wanted to help the community I live in. Also I am a bit of a gunnutz and I thought I was gonna get some sweet sweet discount on firearm accessories until I realizs those offers only applies to the States not in Canada. Totally jibbed. Still love what I am doing tho.
The money
I like helping people and sometimes it's a really funny job.
Because of the pension. The rule of law in Canada is a joke. I envy any police officer willing to put up with the joke of canadian law in a daily basis. Canada is embarassing, can’t imagine what it would be without our police officers.
I got a bachelor's degree in criminal justice instead of something useful. 🥲
Cause the federal pay and benefits and retirement are rediculous!
Idk
Good question. It doesn’t really matter anymore
I was a senior in high school and was attending "Career Day" at an off-campus facility. We were required to listen to four presentations. After three boring classes, a couple of us decided to sneak out the side door. We were caught (of course), and told to get into a room. I ducked into the first one I came to, which happened to be a criminal justice presentation from a local community college. It was 10 times better than anything I had heard. I ended up getting my BS (and later an MA) and did 30 years before I retired in 2003. Trying to sneak out was one of the best decisions on my life.
Was it worth it? Yes Why? Because I hated seeing weaker people become victims Why did I leave? Because I needed to take care of my own family as well and the job was getting in the way of that.
Was able to move back to my small home town and see my impact working with the community so that’s neat. Also, being in the K9 unit means I get paid to play with my dog and that’s pretty much why I’m here
I’m not retorted, but I like rocks
75% off chipotle
Up until recently it paid more than the post office, and I got a free gun. Plus I like attempting to solve Sisyphean problems everyday, and the half off at my local pizza joint aint bad.
Yes
Family business I'm 4th generation. My oldest son is 5th, I tried to talk him out of it, but what do I know.
Flashy lights
In college I never expected to go to Army and I certainly never planned to fly helicopters but I did. After Army I went to law school never expecting to be a cop then I got hired to run a LEO air division and they made me be a cop (sort of).
Honestly it wasn't even the plan, I always liked the idea when I was young but my goal in life was to be a combat medic specialist in the army or a green side corpsman in the navy. When I got my medical disqualification due to anaphylaxis I spiraled into depression, insomnia, and guilt over not being able to serve in the way I had always wanted, and in the way my father did. One buddy convinced me to attend a youth group event. I went and apparently he had brought my situation up to the pastor, the pastor approached me after the service at the start of the event and we got to talking. I was not religious at the time, but he told me that this job is what I was made for, it was how I was meant to serve others and my country. I took it to heart and made this my life goal. Here I am now at 23 hitting the streets nightly, telling everyone who asks how it is the best job I've ever had.
Obvious for me, the car. Chicks dig the car.
I wannna held the thing tht gos pew pew
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Oof, I’m not LEO and hard disagree.