Thread: Kinda Serious

So as some of you know I've been with the GBI the past few weeks as an intern. I've really enjoyed it, everyone seems to be very happy with what they due. Sure the pay isn't great, but that's not what doing the job is about, and I understand that. The job just seems always interesting, and fast paced.

I'm about to graduate at KSU with a degree in Information Security, which is a off shoot of a Information Technology degree. There are some elements of criminal justice in our degree, but only a few classes (Criminal Justice 101 and Cyber Crime).

If I remember correctly a few guys here are in the law enforcement sector and I was wondering if I could get some advice about getting into the field. I'm not 100% sure what I want to do within LE, I'm trying to figure out that out with my internship. Being a GBI SA would be great, but I'm not sure if I've got the chops for that yet, and I think I might need some more experience with the GBI first. I've been making some contacts with the GSP, APD, FCPD, and FBI during the past week. I know the GBI is kinda iffy hiring people with apparitions to go federal, but to be honest I'm not sure if I even want to go federal, I love Georgia and don't want to leave. I've been slowly working at getting in shape (eating better, getting sodas out of my diet, etc) but I still need to get into a work out routine.

Right now my plan is just to go eyes wide open at my internship, get my feet wet in anything that they offer me, and figure out what exactly I want to do within LE. Also, building contacts, collecting business cards, following up with people, shaking hands, etc. Any other suggestions would be great.

Don't worry about having the chops yet, they'll give you the chops in the academy. Most of the people applying for fed LE jobs have zero LE experience, no degree in anything related to what LE needs and are doing it as a stepping stone to other things. Go ahead and apply with all the Fed agencies, especially DEA. Most of the alphabet agencies would kill to get someone in there that actually wanted to do the job instead of furthering their political ambitions. But if you go Fed... get your political game face on because there is a ton of that bullshit.

Yeah I will still apply for federal agencies. I already have my application in the NSA system. I'll look into the DEA as well, I haven't thought about that one. On a unrelated note, all those jokes about government and alphabet soup is true. HISN, GEMA, GISAC, GBI, JTTF, GSP, GTIP, APD, DHS, it never stops.

Welcome to government, or I should say WTG. Everything gets bastardized. Just don't go with ATF and everything will be fine. ATF should never have existed. Give the A and the T to DEA and the rest to FBI and shut that shit down. DEA is cool. You still get to go to the FBI academy, but, and this may have changed in the last few years, you get to wear black BDU's instead of khakis and polos.

The one thing that is funny is how the unofficial uniform is khaki cargo pants (5.11 I think) and GBI polos.