Time flies!

[GB]

As August comes to a crashing completion, it just dawned on me that 50 years ago on Aug.4 at 1500 hrs. I pinned on my first Police Badge and took an oath to protect the citizens of a small town in South Dakota. I wish I could say that I lasted long enough to retire but the truth is I just lasted long enough to get tired, two other small Depts. and 13 years later. As any of you know that worked small towns, local politics is a grind. The Dept. furnished pants, shirts, sap gloves and a baton. Everything else was on me. And all of this for the princely sum of $2.99 cents per hour! GB

 

[lihpster]

Thank you for your (severely underpaid) service to your community. Just to provide context, I started working just 10 years later for the minimum wage of $3.35/ hour. But I was washing dishes in a pizza place. You'd have had to pay me a bit more to potentially get shot at.
I hope you got something other than money out of your career.

 

[Lonestar57]

I've been retired from my agency for 15-years coming up in a few months which is unbelievable to me. Feels like I walked out the door for the last time yesterday. Time has truly gone by in light-speed.