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I want a "old school guy", "traditional guy"
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Whenever I see this I assume that it means, among other things, they expect you to pay for everything and I always swipe left.
Am I wrong about this?
Top Comment: I'm a woman and I agree with your stance. Some women want to cosplay the 1950's that they see in movies or the good parts they heard from their grandparents. They don't want to give up their right to a bank account, or to wear pants, or equal pay in a workplace of course, but they do want someone to pay their way without considering why things were the way they were. I said what I said. We’ve come a long way and I’m glad to not be traditional.
I'm not the guy from the news, but I am a School Resource Officer, so IAmA!
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Police officer and full-time school resource officer here for you to vent your frustrations on and ask questions! I did an AMA on a different account a few years back regarding patrol work before I was assigned to a school, and it was pretty popular, so now I'm back for exciting AMA action.
Context: I work in an urban, very low income middle school, and I am stationed there full-time.
I submitted verification to the mods. Unfortunately my PD doesn't allow us to speak publicly about the intracies of the job, so I've gotta stay (mostly) anonymous. Sorry!
Fire away homies.
EDIT: Guys, I gotta punch out, it's 8:22 here and I gotta put my daughter to bed. As my old USMC Sergeant used to say, it's been real and it's been fun but it hasn't been real fun. I hope you guys enjoyed it and had a productive discussion. Thank you all for your time and your comments, and your compliments. I had way fewer death threats on this AMA than my last one.
Since this is a throwaway the chance of me responding to questions after this is pretty small, but you never know! Say, anyone know if I can xfer the (very kind of you all) reddit gold gifts to my _actual_reddit account?
PEACE OUT HOMIES
Top Comment: How do you perceive yourself while on the job? How do you think most of your fellow SROs perceive themselves? By that I mean... I have a kid in the public school system. As a parent I hope that any SROs posted to any schools she attends view themselves as a form of social worker in the way they interact with children. Do you see yourself as a cop first, or a first line resource for children first?
What are the Cool Guy schools or designations for your MOS?
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Example: I'm a 91B and the Cool Guy school for us would be H8, vehicle recovery specialist. What are yours?
Top Comment: Urban Mobility Breacher Course is probably the most badass engineer school, and of course Sapper.
Why does every elementary school go through that yo-yo phase where they sell and have a guy present yo-yos??
Main Post: Why does every elementary school go through that yo-yo phase where they sell and have a guy present yo-yos??
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You mean that wasn't just me? We had this whole presentation in our lunchroom, guy did a whole bunch of tricks. It was pretty sweet.
Adults who admittedly "peaked in high-school," what's life like for you now?
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Edit: Apparently some of you are fans of It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia...
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29 male. Until recently, High-school was the peak of my life. In high school I was good looking, popular, athletic, and a decent student. My parents were rich and I had a BMW. I played varsity soccer all 4 years at a school of 2500 kids and was recruited by division 1 schools all over the country. College was a good experience as well until the very end when I realized I was not good enough to become a pro soccer player. I graduated with a communications degree because I had no idea what I wanted to do. Big Mistake.
After college I had a horrible time finding a job. I ended up working the front desk at the gym near my parents house for 3 years. I would open the gym at 5am 5 days a week. A lot of the people that came in would be people I knew in high school. Sometimes they would act like they didn't know who I was in order to avoid an awkward situation, which just made it worse. There was a girl that I went to a dance with Sophomore year that would come in every morning. My job is to greet anyone that walks in so the first few times I would say hi "name" and she would swipe her card and completely ignore me. At a certain point my parents stopped helping me with money and I couldn't afford to fill my gas tank. I would ride my old bike from when I was a little kid to work. Sometime rain, snow whatever.
Then my father was diagnosed with Pancreatic Cancer and died within 4 months. He was very successful but not the greatest with money. To help my mom pay bills, I sold his car, his vacation home, and had her drop their country club membership.
One day my uncle decided to take me to lunch to discuss my future. I'm actually tearing up about writing this part. He had a contact at a local tech company that had a few openings for customer service reps. I didn't even ask what it paid. I interviewed for it and was hired. It paid 25K and to me that was a ton of money.
5 years later I still work at that company and moved up to an Engineering position after passing certifications. I have a beautiful wife and daughter, and we live in a nice little house.
edit: Thank you all for the comments.