Damn I'm tired

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I took on a 2nd job as a juvenile transport backup agent a couple months ago. In other words if a teen gets in a enough trouble they are sent to a bording school or bootcamp and the agency I work for is hired to escort the teen.

When I get a case this means I'll be meeting another agent at LAX at 2 or 3 in the morning. Since its a 40 minute drive for me and accounting for time to shit, shower, and shave I'm getting up as early as 12:30 am. Also the night before I have to pick up a rental car for the case after I get off my fulltime job. So IF I'm able to go to sleep early I'm getting a max of 5 hours sleep. I had two cases in the last two days and only 6 hours of sleep total.

A typical "day" is 6 or 7 hours of work afterwhich I goto my fulltime job and work another 9 hours.


So work entails...

-Meet Lead agent at airport.
-travel to child's home
-wake child up
-convince child to cooperate and come along quietly
-travel back to airport
-wait for the child's and lead agent's plane to take off.
-notify parent/s
-return rental car

Seems pretty boring when I list it like that but boring is what we want. Every child wants to fight or flight and our verbal judo skills are extremely important. ?These kids are not stupid and many times they want to put us at ease to look for an opportunity. Also many of them have disorders requiring medication and are known to be violent. Sometimes we get files that state the juvenile is a gang banger and may be armed. If that's the case then we get physical from the get go to get the cuffs on them so they don't harm us or themselves.

This job is fun as hell and everytime I feel like we're on a mission to retrieve a package and then deliver said package unharmed. Except this package has fists, feet, and a mouth and doesn't want to go with us. The lack of sleep is worth it!

www.FourWheelerHB.com

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sounds very exciting.... I have high respect for anyone who works to help out the kids...in whatever fashion that may be....

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That is one aspect that is very rewarding. The agency can also be hired to track runaways. I hope to get involved with that in the future.

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That is one aspect that is very rewarding. The agency can also be hired to track runaways. I hope to get involved with that in the future.

Im currently pursuing a 2nd degree, a BSn. But I am seriously thinking about switching to sociology or something else that I could use to help kids. I just graduated as an EMT too. I have a huge desire to help people, anyway I can...

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I've never really wanted to help people on a professional level. It's really surprised me how much I come to care for these teens even though I only spend a few hours with them. I guess I've discovered a new side of myself.

I have also thought about going to school for socialogy thanks to this job. I'm really good at dealing with people as well as kids and I should probably seriously consider work that will allow me to use that skill.

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I've never really wanted to help people on a professional level. It's really surprised me how much I come to care for these teens even though I only spend a few hours with them. I guess I've discovered a new side of myself.

I have also thought about going to school for socialogy thanks to this job. I'm really good at dealing with people as well as kids and I should probably seriously consider work that will allow me to use that skill.

Go for it

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If you really want to go into social work of some kind, talk to a counselor first, because social work is probably the major that you want, not sociology.

Sociology is kind of like the theory, while social work is the practical. Kind of like the difference between economics and business.

How do I know? My degree is in sociology , and when I first started looking for work after college I discovered that my Spanish was far more important (in Houston) than my degree, which was useless.

So now I'm a project manager for a NASA contractor . But if I were to win the Lotto, I'd probably go back into social work. And that sounds like a cool job; all about being ready to meet whatever you're dealt at the moment.

Wendy W.

There is nothing more dangerous than breaking a basic safety rule and getting away with it. It removes fear of the consequences and builds false confidence. (tbrown)