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A human being must have occupation if he or she is not to become a nuisance to the world.
Dorothy L. Sayers (1893 - 1957)
A career is many different things to different people, but what I've learned for this course is that a career is a number of related work statuses that a person fills over time.
A career can mean professional occupation, also, which is an expert knowledge of one's work and having more control over your work environment as well as exclusive jurisdiction over primary tasks that are yours alone. One must have an education and expertise within the field of professionalism. There is usually a certain amount of respect that follows one in a profession over, say, a laborer position or contingent workers.
One will often stay in their chosen professional occupation a lifetime, as there is upwardly mobile opportunities and usually good pay with benefits and job stability.
The Los Angeles police can be called professionals in some ways, yet unqualifying in other aspects of the job.
A police officer is trained, exclusively, for a certain type of work, unlike any other profession, exactly. It is concentrated and requires expert knowledge in the field. There is definitely room for advancement within the field, from senior officer to detective to chief.
The police however, are not highly paid and put their lives on the line without much social gratification. Police are awed by children and feared by others, as they seem to be their own entity, not socializing with civilians very often. The nature of the work tends to exclude those not privy to it's every day duties, triumphs and disasters.
This leads to high divorce rates and often a lack of diverse friendships and this can lead to feelings of aloneness and despair, also leaving a high suicide rate in its wake.
The career of a police officer can be contradictory in its protean yet stable position. One rarely...
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