A busy guy now!

I just started a new job here in SoSoCal. Lemme begin first by saying that once a position is applied for in the public sector, it may take some time for them to respond to your inquiry. This is a case of how I got this job. I first applied about a year ago seeing the position open up on the city’s website (a great way to find a job) and saw a police related job. Well just a month ago, they hollered via cell and said they wanted to interview me for a new position. Heck, I was sitting at home and doing my homework part-time and kicking ass on Call of Duty part-time as well. I think I could fit in a new job. I went to the interview, impressed the hell outta them =D, went through background investigations with lightning speed, and POW I’m hired.

This position is basically support staff to officers, but not with full authority as an officer. Normal duties include: (1) filing paper work, (2) processing detainees, (3) writing reports and (4) being the first contact the public makes when entering a station. This position is called Community Service Officer (CSO). However, instead of being placed in an office, they needed another person to work in their new jail facility on the lower dungeonous level of the department. Needing a job, I whipped a big smile and took the offer. Now your boy Gary has a firm foot in the criminal justice field as a jailer!

I always told everyone that working in a prison like facility was NOT the type of branch that I was looking into. However, this is a far smaller facility housing approximately 40 people. I see this as a research opportunity for my Master’s thesis, I am hoping to improve a detention facility’s resource efficiency with policy changes. But that’ll be next semester.

As for now, I got two full time jobs now. If I didn’t think about apply for a position a year ago, I think id still be a student. I encourage everyone to visit a city of working potential and look for the human resources section on their website. A bunch of good jobs out there, you just have to find it!