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    Be wary of departments with fast hiring processes. That can mean lots of things. One of them being a high turnover rate.

    I know one place where it isn’t unusual for some people to be hired in one week after submitting an application. Almost half of the employees have less than two years on the job. Not two years or less. Less than two years experience. Another place has almost an identical experience issue, but they do take longer to process applications.

    In this day of social media almost every single LE agency in the country has a FB page. Read through every page of any department you’re interested in. If they have large groups of new hires every couple of weeks and they only have a few hundred people, that might be a problem. If it’s a huge place then it might not be the same kind of problem.

    There has already been quite a bit written about retirement in this thread. I wish I had paid more attention to our retirement system when I started. I would have been making maximum contributions to an optional 401K or sought out another place to work very quickly if I had it to do over. Our retirement improved some a couple of years ago when we started a bridge program. I can retire at 55 years of age as long as I have 25 years on the job. I will be closer to 30 years at age 55 though. Mandatory retirement happens at age 62.

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    No. People and lawyers have ruined this job. Going to work is a liability and don't ever think that your actions or decisions have any bearing on what befalls you. That is all.
    Even though work-wise I've been doing okay and I shouldn't complain too much despite leaving TX; lately the itch that I had in 2016 that prompted me to move there and lose weight and try to become a cop in 2017 is starting to come back.

    It's been over two years since I last interviewed/applied/etc and since I've had more life experience and more responsibilities at my jobs.

    It's just that commentary such as the above has me weary after hearing it repeated so often.

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    Quote Originally Posted by rojocorsa View Post
    Even though work-wise I've been doing okay and I shouldn't complain too much despite leaving TX; lately the itch that I had in 2016 that prompted me to move there and lose weight and try to become a cop in 2017 is starting to come back.

    It's been over two years since I last interviewed/applied/etc and since I've had more life experience and more responsibilities at my jobs.

    It's just that commentary such as the above has me weary after hearing it repeated so often.
    I think you mean leery, unless you're tired of hearing about it.

    I suppose you can actually be both leery and weary.
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    There's nothing civil about this war.

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    Quote Originally Posted by blues View Post
    I think you mean leery, unless you're tired of hearing about it.

    I suppose you can actually be both leery and weary.
    Good catch, and I confused the spelling for "wary" with "weary."

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    Any job that involves making people do things they don’t want to do (like get locked up) will involve legal liability. This is not a career to choose for optimal risk-avoidance, whether legal, physical, or mental.

    If you land a job with good pay and benefits in an area where the population and judicial system largely support the police, and where the work is busy and varied enough to keep you interested for 20-30 years, this can be a great career.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Français View Post
    Any job that involves making people do things they don’t want to do (like get locked up) will involve legal liability. This is not a career to choose for optimal risk-avoidance, whether legal, physical, or mental.

    If you land a job with good pay and benefits in an area where the population and judicial system largely support the police, and where the work is busy and varied enough to keep you interested for 20-30 years, this can be a great career.


    If—
    BY RUDYARD KIPLING


    If you can keep your head when all about you
    Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
    If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
    But make allowance for their doubting too;
    If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
    Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
    Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
    And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:

    If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
    If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
    If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
    And treat those two impostors just the same;
    If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
    Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
    Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
    And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:

    If you can make one heap of all your winnings
    And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
    And lose, and start again at your beginnings
    And never breathe a word about your loss;
    If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
    To serve your turn long after they are gone,
    And so hold on when there is nothing in you
    Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’

    If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
    Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
    If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
    If all men count with you, but none too much;
    If you can fill the unforgiving minute
    With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
    Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
    And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
    There's nothing civil about this war.

    Read: Harrison Bergeron

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    Great poem, but I don’t think getting a good LE job is THAT difficult. They’re out there, although they may not be in NYC or S. Florida.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Le Français View Post
    Great poem, but I don’t think getting a good LE job is THAT difficult. They’re out there, although they may not be in NYC or S. Florida.
    Point awarded.
    There's nothing civil about this war.

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