Life After Law Enforcement; Leaving behind the addictions
I've debated writing this for some time and it wasn't until speaking to my wife, that I decided it was time to put it into words. My hopes in writing this is that I may help someone thinking about leaving the career and how they can get over the ADDICTIONS that come with the job. My law enforcement career started unlike others, because this was a job I never wanted and never saw myself doing. I am what you call competitive. I hate losing, I hate being showed up, I hate coming in second. When I saw someone who I played basketball with in high school driving a patrol car, I thought to myself, I can do that. I began to seek what it would take and after getting my AA in college, I applied to the police academy in Eureka CA. I was accepted and uprooted my family to move away for the eight months it would take to complete the course. Two months in, the academy was going well until I fell during a run and broke the ball socket in my foot. I...