The Story So Far...

    So, it's already been a looooong as year, with many good and bad things. I guess the major good thing is that I am no longer single and very happy. I found an amazing woman, who I have been dating now for the past few months.

    So, I guess I'll start it all out now...lol. As you all may well have known, I was gone for a while I attended the Police Reserve Officer Academy. While I was attending, I returned to a contract security job that I had left six months ago, because I was going through severe financial troubles. I worked there for 3 days after they hired me back and then I was fired. What happened was, I had caught one of their officers violating people's civil rights, so I followed the proper procedure of reporting him to the administration. I even had threatened to arrest him myself if he didn't quit his current course of action. Well, the company that I work for, suspended me, and then ultimately fired me.

    So, after I had been fired. The company's vice president (whom never liked me to begin with), had himself and two other people call the department I was in the academy for, and filed complaints against me to IA (Internal Affairs, they investigate complaints on officers, corruption, stuff like that). Well, since I'm not a full time employee, I was a volunteer, I was seperated from the Academy and subsiquently fired. Now, before ya'll get pissed, the Agency that I worked for was very cool about it. They offered me other jobs within the Department (Corrections, Dispatch, stuff like that), one of which I applied for. They also told me that I could come back and attend the next academy class when it starts in the summer. I had completed 310 of the mandated 350 hours (the course is 35 weeks). I completed 31. I was only four weeks away from graduation. So now, here I stand, unemployed, bills piling up, but I'm still happy and I'm still standing, only because I know that I did the right thing.

    Now, the company is currently trying to fight me for unemployment and such, which they feel that they don't owe me.  But, all is not lost, as I cannot wait to plead my case against them, I have CONSIDERABLE amount of evidence backing me, most of which was submitted by the company themselves. So, this will be interested, hopefully, the truth and justice will prevail.

    On a lighter note, I received a call from a local agency today wanting me to come in and interview with the Chief. I really hope that I get this position, I'm so excited to just have a job interview! I've been out of work for 3 months and applied everywhere! McDonald's and Taco Bell both turned me down for being "over-qualified" for the position that I applied for, which basically means "Well, you used to be a cop and half of our staff is all felons that don't like you". lol.
So, Hopefully I will be getting this job tomorrow, I've been so excited that I can't sleep at all! This fucking music keeps skipping and its pissing me off. Laggy fucking computer. Oh well, I hope that everyone that reads this is doing well, if you frequent the RebelMB message boards like I do, then you can go see pictures of me from the Academy and I will get my pursuit tape up at some point...lol. I'm just way too lazy to put the freaking pictures up on here right now. I've just spent most of my evening playing GTA IV and watching Cops. Yeah, I know, what a mix...lol. Well, I'm going to hop on Rebel and post some pictahs up and kill some time, I have to run up to the Police Academy in a couple of hours to get a waiver of training, and then pick up my transcripts. So that should be cool. Well, I will hopefully post some GREAT news tomorrow, but I'm not getting my hopes up. I don't even really care anymore. My dream job will come when it comes. I've decided lately to leave more things up to fate...lol.

Hope that everyone that reads this has a great day!
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    So, another day another dollar. Not much has been going on, some drama, and some boring repetitious routine. I was moved from the Lake Station sector at work due to some bullshit with an employee that I apparently pissed off, and was moved into the unarmed sector at the Pilot Truck Stop in Burns Harbor, which, was coincidentally robbed at 2am. lol ha ha. About two weeks ago, I was moved from there to Briar Ridge to do traffic enforcement. I like it better. I drive around and write tickets all day. although, I have learned some important lessons in trusting people at work. I've gotten back stabbed by a couple of people that I thought were my friends. It's been pretty fucking ridiculous, but oh well, live and learn, right? So nothing much else has been going on at work. Just going in doing my job and going home. I still need to try and find something that pays better. What I am doing now is good experience and I am content for now.

    The Police Academy is going great. We are now in our 15th week and have 10 more weeks to go. I can't wait. Academy is a lot of fun though, I am lucky to be in there with such a great group of people. I am really excited and happy for the opportunity. EVOC was a blast, when I get all the videos together, I will post the video of my high speed pursuit at the academy, I also still need to get some photos developed from when we were down in Plainfield. Right now, I am currently submitting applications to Indianapolis PD and the Marion County Sheriff's Department. I don't know about the SD though, I don't really want to work in a Jail. I think that I might want to move to Indianapolis though. I haven't decided yet!

Nothing new on the love life front. Met a few girls, nothing caught my "fancy though". Most of them just brought completely un-needed and unwanted drama into my life. Although, I haven't really been trying to get out and meet a whole bunch of women. I started talking to some people that I went to high school with though, thats pretty cool, sometimes its weird, because I never really hung out with them then, but now everyone seems so different, but I know of some that are still the same morons that they were back then, with the dope, and booze. I grew out of that shit a long ass time ago. Its pretty cool, I used to have a crush on one of them...lol. The only difference between now and then is that she now recognizes my existence, although she seems to have her share of problems, she is currently getting divorced and seems to be detaching herself socially and burying herself in school work as a way to cope with how she is feeling about her abusive, failing marriage. i try to talk to her about the stuff, try to be a good friend and make her feel better, but she doesn't really talk to me. So, I figured that I would distance myself a little bit and that she may talk when she's ready, or she'll blow me off like pretty much every other female in my life...lol. It's ok, I'm used to it now.

    I think that I am just getting to the point where I am secure in my career and I'm tired of coming home to an empty place. I miss being with someone and sharing experiences, wisdom, philosophy on life, and what I call my "street philosophy". I miss the little things too, like having someone that depends on you, and you in turn depend on them. Someone to talk to, someone to cuddle with, and just someone to well, just spend time with.

Enough about my whiny emotional shit. lol. I haven't been hanging out with most of my friends lately, due to financial constraints, I've had to budget shit like a motherfucker since work started making cutbacks. We supposedly got some new accounts in Indy and supposed to be getting 3 more accounts in Gary. So when the contracts get signed we'll be getting raises. Yeah, I'll believe it when I see it. My laptop keeps fucking up and I had to re-install windows on it like 3 fucking times in the past two days. I kinda just want to take it outside and shoot it a whole bunch of times....lol.

Well, thats whats going on in my world. I hope that you all are doing well, I will try to continue to post more stuff on a regular basis. :-) comment for comment

Well, I'll keep it short. Work has been going ok. Been swimming in bullshit for a while and hopefully today will be getting out and transferring to a different sector. It's driving me nuts working at Pilot. The people that work there have the worst fucking attitudes ever, I don't get paid enough to deal with it.

The love life obviously still fucking sucks. So yeah. Waiting to turn my Sheriff app in to see where I need to show up to for my first Academy class. It starts on Aug 14. I can't wait. I'm thinking of just burying myself in work to better ignore my single life. Now, that I am comfortable in my own shoes, I'd like to have a relationship, but I don't know, maybe over that time I became too picky. I don't know. I'm just about to give up on it altogether anyways.

Well, if anyone has any advice let me know.

I've also been talking to a recruiter about the service. If the Sheriff job falls through, I'm enlisting.

    Well, I finally broke my cherry at work. After 3 weeks and 4 days, I made my first arrest for Public Intoxication on 6-17-07 at 0610.

And yes, he resisted (until I helped him calm down by introducing his face to the back windshield of his car), and no, he didn't get tased......YET. lol.

Oh yeah, until I found out that Gary PD who was supposed to take him into custody, DIDN'T, they took him home...and the charge should have been OWI because the vehicle was running. I guess I am a little overzealous rookie. I'm just glad no one was hurt.