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HulkXD · 05-01-2008, 10:21 PM

How many of you have side jobs that you do off-duty? Around here, owning a Lawn Care Business is the side job of choice for the police. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller?

danp · 05-01-2008, 11:18 PM

One of our guys owns a wake-boarding school, another owns an airport shuttle service. Our department actually contracts out cops to the school district for sporting events and to apartment complexs for security. Its a pretty good deal all around; the cops get paid their overtime rate and the client gets a real cop instead of an underpaid, overworked security guard.

dasanii19 · 05-01-2008, 11:28 PM

I just did a "walk though" of my new job with a cop, he says he needed a part time job. The place we will be working at is a sporting good store. (Scheels)

x_out86 · 05-02-2008, 06:20 PM

Once I get everything squared away with my new job, the sheriff's department for the county I am working in lets you work part time for them.

They are always looking for people to pick up transport runs or work the occasional jail shift. Pay is good for the part-timer, and better for the SO since they dont have to pay as much out as for a full timer (especially OT pay), and dont have to pay out the benefits they would have to if they hired another full time position.

jeepinbanditrider · 05-02-2008, 07:05 PM

My dad is a Sherriff's Deputy and works like 3 side jobs for security. Football and Baseball games for the local schools and a movie theater in Fort Worth.

Arps · 05-02-2008, 07:17 PM

I see LEO's working security, and at our local gun range quite often. I always feel bad that the folks we trust to keep us safe dont get paid enough to only have that one job.

jeepinbanditrider · 05-02-2008, 07:21 PM

Well my dad gets enough money to live off of. He works the other jobs to have spending money for his motorcycle habit

Raptor1956 · 05-02-2008, 08:39 PM

I heard somewhere that some of the cops in LI NY make close to $100K. If that's true I'd call that pretty liveable even without a second job.

Still, with the risks one has to take and the caliber of people you have to deal with even $100K is hardly out of line.

Brian

xcpd69 · 05-02-2008, 09:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Raptor1956

I heard somewhere that some of the cops in LI NY make close to $100K. If that's true I'd call that pretty liveable even without a second job.

Still, with the risks one has to take and the caliber of people you have to deal with even $100K is hardly out of line.

Brian

$100K sounds good until you research the cost of living on Long Island.

Quite likely you could live much better someplace else on half that or less.

The Tengu · 05-02-2008, 11:25 PM

Most of us work security, an assload of overtime details, or have a courtesy officer job at an apartment complex to save on rent.

05-01-2008, 10:21 PM	#1
HulkXD XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Doing Covert Ops somewhere in KY Posts: 622	Side jobs for Cops? How many of you have side jobs that you do off-duty? Around here, owning a Lawn Care Business is the side job of choice for the police. Anyone? Anyone? Bueller? __________________ You tell 'em I'm coming, and Hell's coming with me, you hear? Hell's coming with me! Shane Smash!!! What the deuce?

05-01-2008, 11:18 PM	#2
danp XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Sacramento, California Posts: 1,251	One of our guys owns a wake-boarding school, another owns an airport shuttle service. Our department actually contracts out cops to the school district for sporting events and to apartment complexs for security. Its a pretty good deal all around; the cops get paid their overtime rate and the client gets a real cop instead of an underpaid, overworked security guard. __________________ God made cops so that firefighters could have heros too. "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway

05-01-2008, 11:28 PM	#3
dasanii19 XDTalk 3K Member Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Nevada Posts: 3,261	I just did a "walk though" of my new job with a cop, he says he needed a part time job. The place we will be working at is a sporting good store. (Scheels) __________________ MY NAME IS SUE!!! HOW DO YOU DO!!! "I started out with nothing, and I still have most of it."

05-02-2008, 06:20 PM	#4
x_out86 XDTalk 500 Member Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 521	Once I get everything squared away with my new job, the sheriff's department for the county I am working in lets you work part time for them. They are always looking for people to pick up transport runs or work the occasional jail shift. Pay is good for the part-timer, and better for the SO since they dont have to pay as much out as for a full timer (especially OT pay), and dont have to pay out the benefits they would have to if they hired another full time position. __________________ Hellen Keller: I long to accomplish a great and noble tasks, but it is my chief duty to accomplish humble tasks as though they were great and noble. The world is moved along, not only by the mighty shoves of its heroes, but also by the aggregate of the tiny pushes of each honest worker. Bruce Lee: Showing off is the fool's idea of glory.

05-02-2008, 07:05 PM	#5
jeepinbanditrider XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mineral Wells, Tx Posts: 4,177	My dad is a Sherriff's Deputy and works like 3 side jobs for security. Football and Baseball games for the local schools and a movie theater in Fort Worth. __________________ Stuff USPSA-A59201

05-02-2008, 07:17 PM	#6
Arps XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Indiana Posts: 1,059	I see LEO's working security, and at our local gun range quite often. I always feel bad that the folks we trust to keep us safe dont get paid enough to only have that one job. __________________ "You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -Frank Zappa

05-02-2008, 07:21 PM	#7
jeepinbanditrider XDTalk 4K Member Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Mineral Wells, Tx Posts: 4,177	Well my dad gets enough money to live off of. He works the other jobs to have spending money for his motorcycle habit __________________ Stuff USPSA-A59201

05-02-2008, 08:39 PM	#8
Raptor1956 XDTalk 100 Member Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: Salt Lake City, UT Posts: 254	I heard somewhere that some of the cops in LI NY make close to $100K. If that's true I'd call that pretty liveable even without a second job. Still, with the risks one has to take and the caliber of people you have to deal with even $100K is hardly out of line. Brian

05-02-2008, 11:25 PM	#10
The Tengu XDTalk 1K Member Join Date: Apr 2003 Location: Memphis, TN Posts: 1,709	Most of us work security, an assload of overtime details, or have a courtesy officer job at an apartment complex to save on rent. __________________ The militia of the United States consists of all able-bodied males at least 17 years of age and, except as provided in section 313 of title 32, under 45 years of age who are, or who have made a declaration of intention to become, citizens of the United States and of female citizens of the United States who are members of the National Guard. United States Code, Title 10, section 311, paragraph (a)

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