805moparkid
Slant and AFX Guy
Sweet burn out City
haha
Sweet burn out City
haha im sure i can... look past some stuff...
All kidding aside....I think it's a great career choice for U and will provide more job security & a future financial stability for U and your family in the long run.
U can always build cars on the side......:burnout:
I truly hope U get hired by the PD and if U need any kind of a character reference email etc. just let me know :cheers:
8-) :nike:
Just happened to think. No one has mentioned highway accidents. You know, men, women, youngsters, children, infants. If you are not prepared to face this, find a different vocation.
Best of luck to you with your application, and please keep us posted as you go through the process. Bear in mind if you have anything questionable in your past, be completely open and candid about what occurred. Nothing gets you disqualified faster than a Lack of Candor response in an interview for a Law Enforcement position. Not implying that you have any issue/issues @ all, just giving unasked for advice.
The comment about responding to crashes and the inevitable gory sights you'll see is (no pun intended) "Dead-on". I was out of the Academy for about a week and on Midnight Shift patrol when I responded to my first traffic fatality as a 22 year-old Trooper. I had to help remove the bodies of two children from a wreck wherein their grandfather underestimated the sharpness of a curve in the road and as a result killed his wife and two grandchildren.
It's one of the realities of being on Patrol.
My grandpappy always said to find the two things you love to do most in life. The very first one make your hobby. The second one make your job.
(I couldn't make it as a **** star so I went to work on cars)
(Boy, did I F that up. Sorry grandpa).
LOL thats awesome...
All kidding aside, the advice holds true. If it's what you truly want, do it. The world will always need your integrity behind the badge.
Great choice going the public safety route for a career. Takes a little luck to get on with most public agencies now days.Talking with a current officer willing to share information seems like a great first step.
I am going to sound stupid here but What is SS/AFX? If it is building cars do that part time and go for the pension.
I say combine both jobs and patrol the highway in a " special police package" hemi dart built by your shop with a six speed manual transmission, twinn turbo, 3.23 gears, AMD any other goodies you like to make it handle like its on rails.
i've been leo since 1984 and would not change anything.
however, be prepared to work graveyard shifts for years as well as working christmas, thanksgiving and every other meaningful holiday.
in the end, it's a calling and you either love it or hate it.
5 years ago I would had said NO WAY. In fact me and some chick once got in to it cause she stated she was thinking of becoming a cop and i went snapping back at her, so you enjoy busting people and screwing up their lives cause they might not be goody goody two shoes--it was bind date, ha ha. Maybe I should had kept my mouth shut till after awhile but nooooo.
But today good jobs are so hard to get. Government jobs are one of the best to get. Heck how would you like to be a capital hill officer.
If you don't smoke weed, pop party pills, do ANYTHING that is illegal, I say GO FOR IT. Aim high and who knows how high you make it.
By the way, I will never ever trust you again, ha ha. Best advice was given to me once in the ghetto, "yeah, cops can be pretty cool sometimes but you never ever trust them"