Current Employment and applications..

[SupraRy]

So I currently work as a Network Engineer and cant wait to get out of this field of work. I have been studying for my police test (for about a month now) which is scheduled county wide in December.

I assume after I take the test and hopefully do well, that I will have a choice of a couple agencies which I want to apply. Hoping all goes positive, I will have oral boards, interviews, etc.

My question I guess is how do you do all these things and still maintain a full time 9-5 job? I dont know how much time off I can take and sometimes I understand the interviews are at a moments notice. I was debating on telling my job in December that I was interested in becoming an officer, and I would finish out my time here but I dont want them to fire me, and give me a possible bad reference to the police if they contact them. I have been at my current employer about a year and a half.

Was anyone else faced with this decision? I still have a mortgage to pay.

Thanks guys.. and stay safe.

[TheKansan]

My question I guess is how do you do all these things and still maintain a full time 9-5 job? I dont know how much time off I can take and sometimes I understand the interviews are at a moments notice. I was debating on telling my job in December that I was interested in becoming an officer, and I would finish out my time here but I dont want them to fire me, and give me a possible bad reference to the police if they contact them. I have been at my current employer about a year and a half.

Was anyone else faced with this decision? I still have a mortgage to pay.

Thanks guys.. and stay safe.

Yes I faced the exact same situation. I told my supervisor beforehand my intentions. The PD's will have to contact them anyway for the background investigations. To make things easier, I usually only took a half day off at a time to test or interview. Everyone at work keeps asking me when I'm going to get hired, they all seem supportive and respect my decision. I may just be lucky, but my job and co-workers are just great, several of them volunteered to be references.

[bluemonkey712]

When I first started testing, I was seemingly able to schedule every thing around my work hours. After a while, I just decided to come clean and tell my boss. He ended up being supportive of my decision and let me "book off" when ever I needed to.

Now that I am about to become an officer, my boss begged me not to give him a ticket because I will working in the town he lives in.

Good luck!!!