Shaking things up...life change

[fickman]

Our country needs more engineers. IMO, you're about to serve the community in a different, but still critical role.

Now you need to try and influence some high school grads to pick challenging majors in college and apply their brains!

Congrats. . . I did grad school while working a full time job, so I know the commitment in long hours and other social sacrifices. Make sure to take a nap when after you get moved! Heck, sleep a whole weekend away.

[FL450]

Congratulations on fulfilling a very large dream. I have never been a LEO but I was a pilot in the Marine Corps. When I left active duty to go to my dream job (airline pilot), I found the thing I missed the most about the military was the camaraderie.
No activity since can compare to the friendships I had there. I have been told by LEO friends that they have a very similar
camaraderie. I encourage you to persue the reserve Deputy opportunity. There will be times when that College degree and the secure/safe job will not feel like enough in your life. Be safe out there.

Howdy, your post reminds me of the husband of an acquaintance of mine. He was a former Airedale, and is now a Captain with American Airlines. She told me the story of her husband's getting ready to board a post 9/11 flight to Europe, where he was the plane's Captain. As he was going through the TSA Theater for flight crews, they discovered a small pair of nail clippers in his pants pocket which he had forgotten was there. The TSA guy said they were going to have to confiscated it, because he could not be allowed to board the flight with it. When the Captain said that he didn't understand what the big deal was about, the idiot held the little clippers up in a dramatic flourish, and he told my friend's husband with great authority: "with THIS, you can take control of the aircraft!"

{DAT Da DAAAAAAA!!!! }

The husband, who was going to be piloting the aircraft, just looked at the idiot and didn't bother debating with him whether or not he required the clippers to fly the airplane. There are some kinds of stupid for which there is not only no cure, but for which the penalties are simply not painful enough. You can only hope that they don't vote and that they're sterile.

Carry on.

Lets not worry about the crash ax in the cockpit.

[chuck j]

Congratulations and if you belive the lord has guided you then you will do well .