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I just wanted to see what some others have done after retirement as I am leaving this year. I started back in 2004, did one year of patrol, 8 years of K9, 5 years as a detective, and my last 6 years I have done everything admin (POST Training Coordinator, Range, Armory/Firearms, Budgets, Vehicles, Body Cams, Dash Cams, Internal Inv., contract negotiations, radios, blah, blah, blah) for an agency with a 15 million dollar budget (kinda small agency) While I was K9 I purchased 5 years of retirement, so I am getting out at age 43 with a full retirement starting the next month of approximately $4500 to $4750 after taxes. I just wanted to see what others may have gone to OUTSIDE of Law Enforcement. I have dabbled in insurance, and have some promising prospects with a large corporation that works with LE across the country. My wife works full time and makes great money, but I am just looking to see if I can help pad the household and help get my kids college get funded (my wife wants $150,000 each by the time the hit college we have 40k in one and 35k in the other) Both of my kids are still in elementary school, so me being retired I can focus on them. Also to throw a huge monkey wrench into everything I have to relocate due to family issues (nothing bad, taking care to our elderly parents) upon my retirement, so I cannot even double dip working for another LE agency as I am going from Nevada to the East Coast near Quantico VA. I never really thought about leaving LE until this family thing came up, and I really don't want to start over with another agency or go to another academy  even though I am still in decent shape (my ribcage is still larger than my waist ) Though my skills are lacking outside of LE, I have no degree since I went in very young. I just dont know what I can do outside of gov work.Just kinda lost here and vomiting thoughts. |
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Seems you have a very impressive amount of training. See if you can leverage your training and experience into college credits. Then go and sell your teaching skills. You're moving near to Quantico? Why not contact the FBI and see if they can use your experience? |
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Quantico and vicinity is an expensive real estate market. If you want to try the analyst side of LE, there's the Baltimore - Washington HIDTA in Reston, VA. I'm pretty sure a train connects from the base at Quantico. I temporarily worked at some HIDTAs, and there were tons of retired LE in them, including as directors. I also worked with retired LE who were employed as contract analysts while I was at another facility. There's probably tons of security related jobs in the AO, as well as the FBI academy on Quantico - they may have contractor positions, but I'm just guessing there. |
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https://www.staffordsheriff.com/content/employment/currentpositions.cfm https://www.dcjs.virginia.gov/sites/dcjs.virginia.gov/files/law-enforcement/forms/option-5-waiver-form.pdf https://fcsocareers.org/opportunities/out-of-state-lateral-program/ https://www.governmentjobs.com/jobs/3615349-0/part-time-certified-school-resource-officer-sro Plenty of LEO jobs in the area. Here are just some examples. It would "Academy lite" @ most for you and they generally respect prior LEOs around here. School resources officers have summers/ weekends off, or go be a bailiff, easy schedule as well. At 43, you can easily get vested in another pension system. |
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Pulled the plug ten months ago, after thirty five years. Hadn't planned on going until next month but I'd been having some regular disagreements with the current administration and realized that it was time to go. I've been leading a day hiking group several days a week for a few years now. This week I was voted back onto the executive committee for a local nonprofit. In about a month I'll be starting a six month through hike on the Appalachian trail. I'm finding ways to stay occupied |
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I’ve had a lot of training and ended my career as an administrator, I really didn’t want to sit behind a desk again so….i ended up at our local VA police. It’s laid back, typically you don’t have confrontations with people but it does happen (so I’ve been told). You do get to do some police work here and there but there is virtually no stress! It’s a good job and I know a few people that went to the Vegas VA and one recently retired from metro and he likes it. @NVcarbine Come June if you’ve had 15 or 20 years they are going to waive the academy. I just got out of there last month….lol…. |
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| Just a thought, moving to the DC/NOVA area, I would keep an eye out for security management positions with corporations like Boeing, Amazon, General Dynamics, etc. The pay is going to be more lucrative than anything in LE, and you have done your time in the trenches. If you browse around LinkedIn there are a bunch of former LE who have transitioned into those roles at a high level. |
| I'm teaching for a government contractor so getting to travel about 1-2 times a month and just signed up for my state forestry department to do wildfire season. With your law enforcement experience if your willing to do wildfires they are looking for Security Managers for the big wildfire camps. Pay is somewhere around $50-60 / hr plus per diem. |
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Originally Posted By Genin: My former agency hired me back as a part time firearms instructor. Paid well for two times a month at 4 hours each. I'm currently doing certified volunteer stuff, mostly firearms related. Some of our people want to carry shotgun again, so I've been pattern testing buck and slugs for the past few weeks. Still doing the SQAP's on our Intox 8000 and 9000. Some quartermaster stuff, some armory stuff. They want to bring me back paid for it, 20 hours a week, but we have to wait until July. Jay |
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Biggest advice I can give is find a place that will share your values/sense of humor. After I retired, I went to do marketing for a nonprofit consult firm and hated it because of how politically correct I had to be all the time and I couldn't share any past experiences without "triggering" someone. If you are already pulling retirement, go find a place that will value your service and understand you new found quirks as a former LEO. It will save you a lot of adjusting back to civilian life. |
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My dad showed me the Hughes News; he retired from Hughes Aircraft. He pointed out that every issue there was a death notice that indicated that the decedent had died after 20+ years on the job. The poor guy died less than 2 years after retirement! The job was All. That. He. Had. to live for. THAT is awful! I learned later that if you make it past 2 years, you are GTG. That if your whole life was the job, you'll die very quickly. That if you have a passion for something (fishing, hunting, camping, etc) you should be OK. |
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Originally Posted By NVcarbine: I just wanted to see what some others have done after retirement as I am leaving this year. I started back in 2004, did one year of patrol, 8 years of K9, 5 years as a detective, and my last 6 years I have done everything admin (POST Training Coordinator, Range, Armory/Firearms, Budgets, Vehicles, Body Cams, Dash Cams, Internal Inv., contract negotiations, radios, blah, blah, blah) for an agency with a 15 million dollar budget (kinda small agency) While I was K9 I purchased 5 years of retirement, so I am getting out at age 43 with a full retirement starting the next month of approximately $4500 to $4750 after taxes. I just wanted to see what others may have gone to OUTSIDE of Law Enforcement. I have dabbled in insurance, and have some promising prospects with a large corporation that works with LE across the country. My wife works full time and makes great money, but I am just looking to see if I can help pad the household and help get my kids college get funded (my wife wants $150,000 each by the time the hit college we have 40k in one and 35k in the other) Both of my kids are still in elementary school, so me being retired I can focus on them. Also to throw a huge monkey wrench into everything I have to relocate due to family issues (nothing bad, taking care to our elderly parents) upon my retirement, so I cannot even double dip working for another LE agency as I am going from Nevada to the East Coast near Quantico VA. I never really thought about leaving LE until this family thing came up, and I really don't want to start over with another agency or go to another academy even though I am still in decent shape (my ribcage is still larger than my waist) Though my skills are lacking outside of LE, I have no degree since I went in very young. I just dont know what I can do outside of gov work.Just kinda lost here and vomiting thoughts. I started the same year you did, worked patrol, lake patrol, part time SWAT stuff, investigations and child crimes for 9 years, then an SRO for two. I managed to scrape together a shitty Associate's degree. It's not worth much, but its something. After 20 years, I decided it was time to pull the pin. If they are going to pay me to not come to work, I am not going to argue. I won't make nearly what you do, but that's just the way our shitty retirement plan works. While I was an SRO, I found that I really like that environment and there is a real need there for our skill set and experience base. I was offered a job as a civilian security director with the district I was an SRO in, and have decided to try that hat on for a while. At 44 I am not ready to retire, but I am damn sure ready for a change of scenery. |
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If you want to get out of LE completely and don't mind a 3 weeks on/off schedule away from home I can probably get you on a tugboat as a deckhand. Starts at about $290/day and if you want to work at it in two or three years you can make about $500/day. IM me if interested. I retired from that business about 1.5 years ago and went into a major depression almost immediately. I HAD to retire (at 71)because the body started to give out. I COULD have pulled the pin at 62 but didn't because I just loved what I was doing. I miss the work and I miss the men. It took me about a full year to mentally recover. |
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| I knew a guy that aged out and had to retire. He didn't make any plans on what to do afterwards. That day snuck up to him. On his last day, he suggested the dept made some accommodations to allow him to volunteer & come in to help where he can. He retired on Friday and passed the following Tues. |
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Originally Posted By Juntau: I knew a guy that aged out and had to retire. He didn't make any plans on what to do afterwards. That day snuck up to him. On his last day, he suggested the dept made some accommodations to allow him to volunteer & come in to help where he can. He retired on Friday and passed the following Tues. That’s horrible. |