I graduated about it pretty much exactly a year ago at this point.

I felt that I was doing the right thing with, you know, I reached out to a professor I had who worked in the line of work that I thought that I would be able to get into.

I had been communicating with him for probably about four months through email.

It really seemed like that was going to go somewhere.

Then I'd get kind of ghosted a little after, like a month after graduation by the guy.

He just stopped returning my emails after, you know, sending me like a link to actually apply for the job.

He told me the job was coming.

He gave me a link.

I applied for it.

He sent me a link to a different job.

I applied for it. I spent a lot of time kind of bouncing around looking for a link. I applied for it. He sent me a link to a different job. I applied for it.

I spent a lot of time kind of bouncing around looking for jobs in my major,

applying, getting denied over and over and over again.

So eventually I go and work kind of part-time for minimum wage for a while.

And at the place I was working, a lot of the guys there had been ex-law enforcement.

And that was kind of something I majored in was criminal justice.

And they told me that, you know, you're a young guy, you're a fit guy.

You should look at getting in law enforcement.

And I went through that process kind of begrudgingly.

I always thought that wasn't something for me, but I just didn't feel

that there was any other options. So I'd start going through it, start going through it.

And I'm kind of like getting up to the point where I would have been admitted into the police

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