How rewarding is your career?

[180ls1]

How rewarding is your career an law enforcement and what do you wish you did differently?

[IA300]

Not sure there is much I would change. I got pretty lucky with my path and haven't regretted anything. A move my old agency made recently validated why I left...

[Samuelx]

Different - starting earlier in life.

[9mmepiphany]

Things I would have done differently -
1. Taken the shortcuts I passed up because I wanted to follow the path everyone else did.
2. Not derived as much pleasure in pointing out supervisor's errors in logic and reasoning, I should have just let the failures speak for themselves.
3. Gotten my college degree sooner to access the educational incentives
4. Maxed out my donations into Deferred Comp sooner

[Falconis]

Different -Not breaking myself.

[tahoetarga]

My 30 years were all I thought it would be...sure, some rough spots, but very rewarding!

Different? Worked harder at becoming fluent in Spanish...

[Notorious]

Rewarding, but with more pitfalls and disappointments than I could have imagined, but nothing that would make me regret going into it in the first place. If I can do it all over again, I would have done it earlier and done some things a little different from the get go so I would end up in a different place.

[Ron-Solo]

Different -Not breaking myself.

This.

I had a blast during my career. Got to do a lot of cool things over the years.

Survived some incidents that could have turned out a lot worse.....gunfights, helicopter crash, riots.

[Raider510]

4. Maxed out my donations into Deferred Comp sooner

I generally get this from LEO's that I know, seems to be the general consensus that more into Deferred comp is better. Good info

[Notorious]

Max out everything, whatever you got, deferred comp, 403, 457, Roth, IRA, name it. Get out of the game as soon as you are able and enjoy retirement.

[RedVines]

Max out everything, whatever you got, deferred comp, 403, 457, Roth, IRA, name it. Get out of the game as soon as you are able and enjoy retirement.

^^^

[emvampyre]

Worked gangs longer, promoted earlier...

[rolncode3]

The only times I haven't enjoyed it are when there was internal drama. I expect the bad guys to treat us like crap. But when coworkers (or worse - management) create internal problems, I was unhappy.

Agreed on saving up and getting out. I will be out on my 50th B-day; hell or highwater. Bought 3.5 years ARC and socking money away in deferred comp too.

[Falconis]

Max out everything, whatever you got, deferred comp, 403, 457, Roth, IRA, name it. Get out of the game as soon as you are able and enjoy retirement.

do it from the start so you don't miss it.

[micro911]

If I start over, I'd rather be a fireman.