So, I quit my job yesterday. I'd never really intended to be a cop long term, I just needed a paycheck until I could get a teaching job somewhere. While police work is broadly similar to the military service I'd done previously, it turns out that it isn't enough so for me to like it. It hit me over the weekend that, even on the bad days, I enjoyed the subsitute teaching I'd done before I started working for the PD, whereas every day as a cop was just a matter of "How many more hours 'til we go home? How many days until we get paid?". I decided the pay wasn't worth a job I didn't like. So I'm going back to subbing until a full time teaching position opens up. The pay sucks, but I still live at home with my dad, so it's enough. And the hours are better. And it helps, rather than hinders, the volunteer stuff I do with the district varsity soccer program and my church youth group.
