Field Training Book Sense and Street Sense are two totally different things. Get ready to ride along with a supervisor for the next few weeks, or even months depending on how you do, and how fast you learn. This could be a few months or even a year. This is one word you will become to know very well. You will need to learn how to manage it or thrive on it.
Police work is one of the most stressful jobs in the world.
You will see things that most people could not start to handle, and do things that most people would run from. It takes a different type of person when someone comes and tells you there is a man with a gun outside. Most people would try to do as much as they can to stay as far away from the man with the gun. You on the other hand will have to be the type that will head right to him. Family It can be very hard to balance family and job.