Tamar_Garish said:
Really? For someone who has a house to run, kids, and grandchildren, he certainly has more than enough time to be here himself!
Imagine how many posts he'd have without all those distractions.
I get up about 7AM to get my kids off to school at 7:30. My dad (a retired cop) drives the school bus my kids take in the morning, so he picks them up on the way to work.
Then, sometimes I go to the Sheriff's department and work for a few hours, (I'm part time, between 15 and 30 hours a week) sometimes I go back to bed. It depends on how tired I am and whether they need the help.
If I go in, I get home about 12:00PM and get ready for my full time job as a cop for the military. I leave for work at about 1:00PM to work from 2-10PM.
If I sleep in, I get back up around 10:00AM, surf CNN, TK and a few other sites, have some coffee and enjoy what's left of my morning. Then I got to work.
During the week, my dad has my kids until he's done driving bus. Then he takes them home with him, brings them back to my house around 8PM and gets them ready for bed. I get home about 10:30PM and he leaves. Once in a while, he keeps them over night so they (and I) can sleep later in the morning.
At work, If I'm not in a squad, I'm usually in the dispatch center. It's the militarys 911 dispatch equivalent and requires a lot of training, experience, and multi tasking skills. Things that only a few of us are trained to do right now until we get others up to speed. So I work there a lot. And as I make the postings for the shift, I put myself there a lot because I have the training and experience. However, unlike it's civilian counterpart, I'm answering "911" calls on base, monitoring a crash net for our neighbor the international airport, coordinating with local civilian law enforcement, monitoring alarm systems for the 5 state areas military bases, tracking regional weather info for our flights, supervising our own police force of 12 personnel, doing reports, running emergency checklists, preparing posting assignments for the next duty shift, running background checks though NCIC, maintaining a blotter of the shifts events, approving entry authority lists for civilian personnel coming on base, and about a dozen other things.
When I get home at 10:30PM, I kiss my kids goodnight. Then I log onto my computer to finish the paperwork I didn't get finished at work that day, because, you see, I'd rather do it at home where I can be around if one of my children wake up in the middle of the night than get paid overtime to finish it there. And while I'm doing it, I surf TK and a few other sites. I go to bed myself between 2 and 3AM. so I get between 4 and 6 hours of sleep a night.
So when I'm home at night, my kids are here. They may be sleeping, but I make sure we get a few minutes each day and enjoy as much time with them on Saturdays, my only real day off, as I can.
And this is what I put my wife through for many years before I retired from the military. She's now been activated for close to 2 years and only been home a few short times. So I have no right to complain. And I don't. But it does give me a better appreciation for everything she does and makes me realize I married a woman with an outstanding strength of character.