Calling JasonJ

[GodsBeast]

Hey JasonJ, I didn't mean to ignore you on the other thread, just got busy preping and checking fluids etc. to take the boat out the next day, etc. plus I wanted to let the other thread die.<br /><br />JasonJ, if you have a good paying other job, and your wife is already in Law Enforcement, and you plan to do the Reserve thing, I'd suggest give the Reserve thing a try. If you later find too many things that you don't like, you can just go home, walk away and still have your paying job to focus on, and pay the bills and keep your boat running! I must confess, some of the things I have encountered in this field, sometimes makes me tell those interested in this, that if I didn't have so much time invested in this, I'd never start this again. It takes a particular (trying not to use the word special) type of person to do this job, and Special people to do this job and hold a marrage together, especially with both parties being in Law Enforcement, in the Marrage! Stress of both situations can be very difficult to keep seperated. <br /> May I suggest that if you really just have to do it, try the Reserve thing, and really get involved. Ask the Old timers, their views on would they do it all again? Or, what would they do different? Follow through on the cases you get involved in when working Reserves, another words find out if they get convicted, plea bargin, or aquited, and why. I find some Reserves just get in it for the action, and never even come to court, or learn some of the down-side things that are frustrating to Law Enforcement, till they have quit their other job, and feel stuck into this job. I was/am still a Journeyman Electrician. I worked in the Plants for 7 years, doing Electrical work, (mostly the bull work) which also included Lineman work. I also put in 1 year in the Oilfield. Sometimes I tell myself I should have just got a haircut and got a real job, HA HA. Well I shaved my head, so I at least got the haircut <br /><br />Anyway JasonJ, it can be an attractive Job that pulls you in. I could go ON and ON giving you advise, that you may or may not want, but in short, the point being, if you decide to give this a try full time, pay particular attention to the part of the job you really like, or want to specialize in, and go for it. I tell the new guys here, if your wanting to go to a bigger agency and do special things, don't invest so much time in a smaller department and get stuck there! Do your couple of required years, and go for the specialized field your interested in or the bigger agency, be it a larger department, or DEA, or FBI, etc. Don't get bogged down and find yourself having so much time invested that you will loose too much by switching agencies. <br /> Also, if you find that Law Enforcement is not your cup of tea, Do yourself, and others a big favor, get out, and find what you really want to do! <br /><br /> Holler if I can be of any help, and good luck on your future, and finding the Job you really like, it is also like a Marrage, you'll be doing it a long long time! <br /><br />GodsBeast

 

[JasonJ]

Re: Calling JasonJ

I only want to do it because I watch Law & Order and it looks like they have fun...Just kidding .<br /><br />Law enforcement has interested me for my entire adult life as well as my youth, despite or maybe because my one trip in the back of a police cruiser when I was thirteen. I won't get into the specifics of that little event, I'll just say I learned a lot that night, and never was in the back of a cruiser since. I have no interest in the "action" or any of that. I think I am driven by a need to be a part of something bigger than the average. I tend to be drawn to the jobs that few people have the guts or desire to do. The only reason I didn't do the full 20 in the Army instead of the 11 I did is because I didn't like the direction it was going (and the fact that I no longer enjoyed being wet, cold, and miserable all the time). While I have always been willing to make the ultimate sacrifice for my country, I didn't want to do it for oil or whatever other poor reason we get oureslves into nowadays. I stil don't know how to feel about the Iraq thing, so I won't even get into that.<br /><br />Law enforcment represents yet another sacrifice of ones self for the greater good, even though a lot of people do not apreciate or understand what is involved. I really don't have the "dream job" in mind. If asked to choose one profession, I always go back to the same one,that is Homicide Detective. I do not know why, it just is, but I actually could win the Lottery tomorrow and never work again and be perfectly fine. I have to do a job that has variety and keeps me outside. I could be a mechanic, I am an accomplished artist, and have host of other skills, but it all involves me sitting in a building all day, and the thought makes me literaly twitch. I have to be outside, and there are not a lot of professions that do this, especially in this computer age where people live like mushrooms, pasty and pale, and fear sunlight due to being locked in a windowless room for years with nothing but the light from their computer screen for company. As far as stress goes, I can't think of much that can be more stressfull than military life. I never had a problem with stress, I have always aproached problems with a level head and solved those problems quickly. If you can think of anything more stressful than being within artillery range of chemical weapons while your old lady is on the other side of the world having countless affairs and ruining your financial life, be my guest. I no longer have to worry about THAT....