Taking Off the Badge

Thanks for your service. I was really ready to end my career when I did and have never looked back. I started working part-time right after retirement. The jobs kept me in "mad" money for things like guns and reloading components. I held many different jobs after retirement and got to see how the other half lives. After I quit working for good, it took a little adjustment, but now I really like the freedom. May your retirement years be as happy as mine.
 
Congratulations on your retirement, LaVistaBill. You made it!

I only stayed 22 years because I was recruited into a second career. Law enforcement, and the world in general, has changed so much...... I've never missed it at all. The only part I WOULD miss are the folks I served with, and I'm still in contact with many of them.

Enjoy your time! You've earned it.
 
Congrats on making it. I'm 6 years into retirement after 30 years with one agency.
For me, it was several weeks of 'feeling displaced'. I worked in a very busy place with great folks, and it just felt strange to not be there.
Enjoy!
 
Wuzz Fuzz

I found myself on a trip last weekend looking up at signs on the road so I'd know the street I was on and the nearest cross street or house number...old habits...it also feels weird not having a badge and credentials...hopefully I'll get my retirement badge and credential set soon!

WuzzFuzz said:
Bill,

Welcome to the "WuzzFuzz" ranks. As stated by others above, it takes a little while to fully "retire". But you'll like it.

But once a LEO, always a LEO. You'll find that you'll still look over your shoulder, look at car lic plate numbers, and give some characters a second look. But that's ok, it's in your blood for ever now.


Congratulations on your retirement.


WuzzFuzz
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Congratulations! That is one ton of overtime, court time, and reports you did there brother!:D

I only made it 13 years (politics got me down). Left the Patrol 24 years ago and I still watch plates, check cross streets, and alter my way home. Still point out stoners and DWIs to my honey, and yes it irritates her:D! It does get ingrained, don't it?
 
Congrats!

I'm out nearly 20 years. Amongst other things, I ran my division's firearms training program. Immediately after retirement, I was a nervous wreck wondering if my replacement would remember to book the ranges in time, get the ammo ordered, distribute the scheduling memo, prepare the lesson plans, etc.

In time, I relaxed. I never received a call of where's this or that or what comes next. I learned that I was expendable after all. Oh well.

Since retirement, this is what me week looks like: Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday. Yet, I have so many projects that there aren't enough Saturdays in the week.
 
federali said:
I'm out nearly 20 years. Amongst other things, I ran my division's firearms training program. Immediately after retirement, I was a nervous wreck wondering if my replacement would remember to book the ranges in time, get the ammo ordered, distribute the scheduling memo, prepare the lesson plans, etc.

In time, I relaxed. I never received a call of where's this or that or what comes next. I learned that I was expendable after all. Oh well.

Since retirement, this is what me week looks like: Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Saturday, Sunday. Yet, I have so many projects that there aren't enough Saturdays in the week.
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Thats just a nice way of saying that every day is like: Ground Hogs Day--the Bill Murray version. :D
 
I had two mentors in my career: Travis B. Martin, dinosaur extraordinaire ("Son, it ain't for real", and: "I know I can't catch 'em all--but they can't stop me from trying."). The other old dead white guy was a Roman emperor, Marcus Aurelius: "Care not whether you are cold or warm, if you are doing your duty."

I like to think that when we go, and if we can get past St. Peter, one of the first people we'll meet will be St. Michael, patron saint of soldiers and police. He'll say, "I'd like to buy you a beer; what outfit were you with?"

Welcome to the club.
 
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Congrats and thank you for your service!
Myself, retired since July 1 this year and still having trouble thinking I should be doing SOMETHING... Makes a person wonder how they were able to get so much done during the working years. Only have had to set the alarm a couple of times for an early appointment.
 
Wishing you more checks in retirement than you took home OTJ. Eat right, keep your weight down, easy on the alcohol, and exercise. That is to say, DO exercise...not "easy on the exercise". I agree with the guy who said he'd never do the job again knowing what it is today. Body cameras, video and audio everywhere and an attitude by too many jurors thanks to the media, hollywood and the political atmosphere that "If it's not on video or there are no prints on the gun, it didn't happen the way the cop says it happened. If it's not on audio, it's because the cops is lying and turned his audio off."

I learned a long time ago that a community gets the kind of law enforcement it deserves. That about sums it up 99% of the time when you see a major conflict between the police and the community they serve. God bless the young street cops out there. There's no way the dinosaurs could or would want to do the job you have to do now. I saw the writing on the wall many years ago and chose to promote off the road and into the detective bureau rather than deal with it anymore.
 
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