Archive for December 1st, 2003
by Tom on Dec.01, 2003, under Uncategorized
First, a welcome to the number of you who stumbled across buhner.com looking for your police test scores. They’re not here. However, if you managed to read my article on taking the police exam, thanks. I’ll take any readers I can get, and outside of the people looking for information about Joe Petrosino and people bitter about sports salaries, that test has been bringing people in.
For the record, if you want your scores, this is the link.
How did I do? Well, for the amount that I talked about it, you would have thought I would have done better. I passed, which is good, but just barely, and I’m not really sure if it’s because I screwed up on the questions or didn’t fit the “psychological profile” of what the county is looking for in a police officer. Either way, I’m pissed off at myself, because I do not like doing poorly on exams of any sort.
I guess it turned out ok, though. I have a job now, and I’m not sure that I would have made a good cop. I felt that I would have been a decent detective and had good deductive reasoning, but you don’t necessarily follow a different path for that. Cops start off as regular cops, and it takes a long time to get yourself noticed and promoted to do work like that. I probably wouldn’t have been able to keep doing the low-level work at a high quality level with a smile on my face as people I felt were less qualified (and educated) that me got promoted above me solely because of time serves and who they knew. Then again, it’s that attitude that keeps me from excelling at most professions.
Thanksgiving turned out good, surprisingly enough. Everyone was great over the in-laws, we came back in time for the full meal back here, and I think in the end, everyone was satisfied with the arrangement.
No psycological rambling today. I’ll save that for tomorrow. And I will write tomorrow.
