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Should I work as mall security?

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Coog75Coog75


Currently I am working as a administrative assistant for an environmental consulting firm. I was thinking of applying to work mall security, because I am going to become a police officer and I figured this would be some good experience. Plus I think I would be happier with a more exciting job. My current job is pretty cushy( I have a flexible schedule with school, the staff is cool, they pay me really good for what I do and I get paid holidays and sick days). It can be slow and I think I have come to a point where I have learned all I can ( I have been there over 3 years). I graduate from college in December and I will be attending a police academy in September. Should I apply for the security job or just stay where I am?

browncat79
browncat79

What are your financial needs? I'm sure the security job pays less. Personally, I would stick with the job you have since it pays well and is flexible.

nabeel
nabeel

Why don't you find something easier and less time consuming? try this and apply where it suits you freely and you can get hired anywhere you are. http://www.hireonlinetalent.com/

I am doing the same thing.

Draven
Draven

At first I was going to tell you to take the security job. Like you said, the experience will be good and it will look good on your resume. But with your graduation being so close, and your current job situation sounding pretty good, I think you'd be better off staying where you are. It's kind of a "Don't fix what ain't broke" situation.

Good luck.

Monica
Monica

I would suggest you stay where you are. Who knows if you would even succeed in mall security or have enough hours? You could end up fired or not working enough hours at the security job and then what? Enjoy the quiet time while it lasts. Many people would appreciate having it. If you know your job so well, that may just make your job easier and perhaps allow you to have a little more idle time due to increased productivity. Enjoy it, as this is a little bit of time your employer allows you to reclaim in the sense of not working. Now, I'm certainly not advising you to risk your job, and for sure your new occupations should not be noisy, disruptive or making it obvious that you have no real work, or have the potential of creating some legal liability for the employer (don't email jokes, for example) but there may be some ways for you to discreetly employ that time to do something for yourself. As an office worker with a computer and who can have paper on his desk, that may be possible. Just try to disguise your occupations as work (or if you don't even have to, as something not obviously looking like slacking off) and drop them when the real work arrives. For instance, personal reading can be done by reading printouts hidden in the same type of files or binders that are used for real work. If you cannot safely do anything, just be happy that at least your employer is squeezing less of your energy out of you and that at the end of the day, you'll still have some energy left. And remember: your employer can't know if you are still wasting time, but only by thinking or remembering something you memorized earlier (for school, for example), composing music or poems in your head, visualising and planning out in your head something you need to learn or to plan out, etc.


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