My Quest: Becoming a Sheriff

By: Eric Johnson

Not so long ago I realized that I had let my years in high school slip by and I was very unsatisfied with just being a burger flipping minimum wage earning citizen. Instead I started working towards the profession I wanted. I soon found that my local police sheriff was up for reelection and I soon realized that becoming a sheriff was a profession I was into.

I did some background research and soon found that this profession is most definitely not as hard as I had initially thought. Actually, it was harder than I thought but I then realized that it could be done moderately easily if a person started doing it in steps.

You see, the first thing I had to do was become a police officer. Now obviously this is harder than it sounds, becoming a member of the police force is hard enough in itself without any other aspirations. However, if you break the task down into the steps you'll soon find it's only hard on paper. So the first step to it is going to college and becoming an officer of the law.

To do this it should be noted that you will of course need a squeaky clean record (they do not accept cops with prior convictions and in fact look down on people who have arrests or even holding periods on their record). So if this is the case than you should most definitely check with your police department (think New York Police Department or Los Angeles Police Department) and find out if your record is as clean as you hope it is. Also find out if any spots you have can be resolved and if anything you have on your record is admissible by police officer standards.

Additionally, keep going and finding out what else needs to be done. Sheriff is not like CEO or head police chief. No, becoming a police sheriff means becoming elected. That means that in order to become a sheriff you need to run a political campaign and try to figure out how to win your particular county over. Now the problem with this is that some of us, no matter how good we may be at a job or how devoted we may be, might be really awful politicians.

In this case, you are probably better off hoping to go for some high level of police duty and trying your best to achieve this first. Another con is that there is only one sheriff per county. So your reigning sheriff might be around for quite some time and may be quite reluctant to give up his or her position.

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Eric has been working to build a blog around showing people how to become a sheriff and other related careers. You can read more about his work and about his journey where he is on his way to becoming a sheriff.

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