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What is the hardest part of your job? and What is the "easiest" part of your job? Just curious.

 The hardest part of the job, for me, is putting up with all of the stupid stuff.  People that want you to raise their child for them, or want you to go talk to their neighbor about the barking dog that's been recurring for the past week (Really? You cant talk to your own neighbor?)  The easiest part is dealing with co-workers that understand you and where you're coming from.  BS-ing actually becomes an essential part of the day, and we are able to laugh at the people we deal with (privately, of course) and it becomes a real stress reliever.

brooks125 says ...

 The hardest part of the job, for me, is putting up with all of the stupid stuff.  People that want you to raise their child for them, or want you to go talk to their neighbor about the barking dog that's been recurring for the past week (Really? You cant talk to your own neighbor?)  The easiest part is dealing with co-workers that understand you and where you're coming from.  BS-ing actually becomes an essential part of the day, and we are able to laugh at the people we deal with (privately, of course) and it becomes a real stress reliever.

I know what you mean when BS-ing helps deal with your job. I had a job my senior year that was very demanding (for me) mentally. The way I delt with it was joke around with my friends after work, they understood that I didn't want to talk about work and that I just wanted to chill out while joking around. To me out of all the things that I know y'all do I'd say for me it would be anything involving children that are hurt and older people. I have a pretty high tolerance for idiotic people but show me a hurt child I wilt and start trying to protect them. I'm also naturally protective of older people because I have a grandma that's really fragile and is sick, so normally when I see a older person that's hurt I want to help them the best I can, I dunno why it just kicks in and I want to help.

KSP494 says ...

Hardest = dead babies

easiest= going home

 

I'll bump that!   Mine were day-to-days.

Death notifications are the hardest part and training is the easist.

msp1672 says ...

NOW you know why people in LE, Fire, EMS, Dispatchers and such have a crude sense of humor and why these same people have a such a problem with the politically correct crowd.  These officers, fire, EMS and such have seen and done so much that there needs to be a vent and that vent takes on a kind of macabre sense of humor that the politically correct crowd will never understand.  Yet it is important for us to deal with the issues somehow otherwise we can get depressed.  Depending on the type of situation, some of these "heroes" have gone so deep into depression that they have been unable to recover.  Those are the ones that end up with the personal problems, drinking, no friends and then take the ultimate way out.

BUMP

Difficult question because the answer can change every day.

Death notifications are hard.  Doesn't matter how many of them you do and I have done more than my share. 

Dealing with the death of children, really sucks.  The more you see the more they suck.

Dealing with the internal political machine, sucks.  The longer you do this the more this sucks.

Dealing with the same people on a too regular basis.  Sucks from day 2.

Dealing with the petty squabbles of co-workers, sucks.

The easy parts change daily too.

Squad meetings can be the best time you ever have with your coworkers and maybe the last time you'll ever see one of them.

The quiet night when nothing is moving except the steam off of the coffee.

There are a lot less easy things.

How do you deal with the worst of the worst and seeing how evil/bad people can actually be?? or is it just someting you have to learn to deal with on your own...

Investigating bad motor vehicle accidents (MVA) with children involved. Training is a cake walk except right after lunch. La la land.

MIKIESPLACE says ...

hardest part of the job-ANYTHING BAD WITH KIDS INVOLVED breaks your heart sometimes. easiest part - MAKIN BAD PEOPLE GO DIRECTLY TO JAIL.

             Mike it never was easy not even 30 some old years ago, the 70´s gang warfare in the Bronx, the senseless killings on the streets stepping on dead person and burned bodies!

PETE114 says ...

cbrewster3 says ...

How do you deal with the worst of the worst and seeing how evil/bad people can actually be?? or is it just someting you have to learn to deal with on your own...

It takes a emotionally strong person to do this job.  Divorce, suicide, alcoholism, and other problems are common in our field and the rates of these problems are higher than the general public.  It's something that's hard to explain because the job affects everyone differently.  Not a career for the faint of heart.  You have to know what you are getting into this field.  It's not just a 9 to 5 job.

Everyone deals with this in different ways.  Most places have support groups to help.  We are never alone.

Bump.. You always have other officers and support groups.