Yes, AA there is so much that goes into pursuing a career in this area of expertise...ESPECIALLY IF WANTING TO GO ALL THE WAY and eventually work for the federal government specializing in forensics, profiling, etc.. I can attest it is a long tedious road with many and much required to have been done for specific amounts of time along the way.. My ex husband was born to be in the field that he truly knows inside and out with all the teeny nooks amd crannies along the way..
I was about to suggest the very thing you just posted was your intentions to be on the police force within the next couple years.. This IMO and the proof is in the pudding that in going that extra mile throughout working toward your ultimate goal I've seen that just as much experience you can attain along the way the absolute better off you are.. My ex husband after getting his BA in criminal justice and then immediately setting off toward his masters to immediately follow and was still in his early twenties after receiving his masters and which working full time as Measley probation officer for Juvenile courts he then immediately applied to and was accepted to go through the police academy and was well on his way from that point on.. His focus and determination were evident, his work ethic and devotion were paramount and those that mattered took notice.. IMO this is what type things greatly helped him in the long run.. As after gaining the trust and admiration of his superior officers and even their superiors it did seem that this good impression he had made on some important people really made a big difference in smoothly trekking right up that ladder to eventually working in the FBI..
AA I am very certain you are aware of just how tedious a process just being thoroughly investigated by the FBI for the purpose of the absolute incredible lengths that they go to in the hiring process.. It is amazing.. Going as far as to have literally sent out men dressed in black suits to a tiny town that a fraternity brother of my husband's lived in.. They went and even interviewed him tho they'd not even been in touch since their junior year at UT.. It really is a career that one definitely earns their place in finally being hired on.. Then the long road of working one's way up through the Federal government career ladder.. But that alone having made it into being one of the chosen few is an accomplishment in and of itself that the vast majority of us will never know or have a clue about..
One of my ex husbands best buds was among the very elite chosen few that had made his way into the final 2 candidates for the new hire with the actual secret service.. After an even more extensive hiring process(if u can imagine) for this one slot that was open for secret service agent.. We all thought he was a shoe in.. Down to the wire with only 2 of them left vying for the coveted position and no one could even guess what was left for them to have to be tested on, verified thru, or extensively studied complete family tree of backgrounds..EVERYTHING UNDER THE SUN HAD BEEN ASKED OF HIM, REQUIRED OF HIM, etc and he'd *passed everything with flying colors!! Without a doubt we knew he had the job.. But couldn't have been more wrong within about 48 hours of us anticipating what was going to happen, when would they tell the result of who'd been chosen??.. And just like that it was over. He was paid a visit to his home by some very high up individuals who literally raved to him about how very impressed they were with EVERYTHING ABOUT HIM.. they just said in the end the choice was made to go with the other one of the only two of them.. He was crushed and without being given any reason.. What could it have been that went wrong? Or that they saw that they did not like or approve of? *The poor guy was left racking his brain and just no relief.. Just left not knowing..*
You'll not believe what shortly thereafter we learned was the cause for why he was not chosen at that very last step on that very last moment.. It truly was unbelievable what it all boiled down to(but I did tell him that my God if that's the only thing bad that the entire consensus of the US Federal government with all their unlimited resources .. If this was all they could come up with on him then by God he is one mighty fine man)..
In those last 48 hours these field agents that's jobs are to dig up even the smallest hint of a single grain of dirt that can possibly found on one of these candidates for the secret service agent position.. Well these agents will indeed find it.. He'd never been arrested for anything must less charged with any offense so they kept on digging and in those last 48 hours they made a trip to that same small town where my husbands frat brother had been tracked down And interviewed for my husbands process Of being hired on with the FBI.. In that same tiny town they not only found the fraternity brother who the agent that was up for the secret service job was also a former fraternity brother of from UT, but in interviewing this man who had attended college many moons ago with the agent up for hire he during the course of blabbing his mouth comes upon telling them a story of a guys night out in one of the college town local bars that a few too many beers And a bunch of cocky fraternity bros had began what was an All out bar brawl, yes to the horror of this agent about to become secret service this moron from his fraternity many moons ago was now in one single setting by shooting his mouth off stripping this man's chances of being that agent for secret service.. They not only took the frat bro. Story down word for word they also got two other fellows names that could fully corroborate the bar brawl and this agents involvement.. Within 24 hours all that hard work and interviewing nightmare process of attempting to get that secret service job was all for nothing.. Those FBI field agents had 3 full accounts of 3 separate men telling of this agents involvement in a bar fight and much to our surprise they went even one better and were able to contact the sheriffs office of that college town where the bar fight happened and they were actually able to have in their hands a copy of a police report for the incident from the bar fight night.. No one was even arrested for the fight but there was infact not only a report made of the incident but it also listed 6 or 7 guys full names on the report of having somehow had involvement in the bar fight.. As I said no one arrested or charged with anything but the agents name was infact one of those names on that damn incident report!!!!
That beats all, doesn't it??? Sounds too unbelievable to be true but by golly it most definitely is the truth of how this guy came so close, I mean my God down to the final 2 men up for the secret service agent position.. And just like that, in a blink of an eye and a dummy running his mouth.. That poor guy watched it all disappear and never, after coming so damn close, for nothing to have come of it.. It was a big let down as one can imagine.. Lol
AA.. Alls this to say, you've got your work cut out for ya but just from the little I know of you I haven't a doubt that you put your mind to it and you can go all the way!! You seem as tho you were very much born for this exact type career.. Good luck
