federal, that is. you have to have a 4 year degree (in any major) You first year, you make $18 an hour. second year, $26 an hour. attend a Fed class about being a cook supervisor, you wage goes to $33 an hour. then you get to work $20 hours per week as a regular guard, at overtime 1.5x base pay, $39 an h our. 66k +39k is 105k per year, PLUS complete job security, plus COMPLETE medical insurance for self, spouse and kids (up to 18 years old) and a pension at half of your top pay (clear, no tax) for life, and the med care is for life. You DO gotta be 50 yo to draw the pension ,but the med care is forever, after the 20 years. So, if you start at say, age 22, you'll either have to work 28 years, or wait 8 years on your pension, while doing something else for income. Learn to use Google, guys. Search salaries and job opportunities.
clear 70k per year as a prison guard
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clearing 70k per year, living on 20k and banking 50k per year, you'll be able to retire in 4 years, if you want. no pension, no med insurance, but no 16 years of working, either. Just know what to do with your 200k. You can live in LUXURY on your annual return on that 200k, if it's well invested here and you live in Uruquay, Philippines, Portugal, Panama, several other countries.
as a "LEO", fed prison guards get to CCW a gun in all 50 states and they get their student loans forgiven, too. Once you are a cook supervisor, you're just a foreman, not really a guard anymore. The overtime, they'll probably put you either walking the fence, outside or driving the perimeter patrol pickup truck. Totally boring, but not at all dangerous. Very little of the inside work is dangerous, either. you wear a walkie talkie that you can just slap and 30 guards come running to help you. So, 4 years of college, 5-6 years as a guard, and you're set for life.
as a "LEO", fed prison guards get to CCW a gun in all 50 states and they get their student loans forgiven, too. Once you are a cook supervisor, you're just a foreman, not really a guard anymore. The overtime, they'll probably put you either walking the fence, outside or driving the perimeter patrol pickup truck. Totally boring, but not at all dangerous. Very little of the inside work is dangerous, either. you wear a walkie talkie that you can just slap and 30 guards come running to help you. So, 4 years of college, 5-6 years as a guard, and you're set for life.
I used to work as a prison nurse. I wouldn't wish the job of "prison guard" (they prefer corrections officer by the way, many hate the term "guard") on my worst enemy. In many ways you are doing time too when you are working as an officer. Any job that seems to good to be true probably is.
Not to completely turn you guys off to it. It's a solid way to make money without a lot of education. But keep in mind the incredible amount of stress you will build while telling a thousand guys who hate your guts what to do everyday. You need some serious strength of character to do this job. Also keep in mind many officers DON'T have strong characters and you will be working with some very beaten down, very cruel, very untrustworthy people.
It's no wonder they have sky high suicide rate.
Not to completely turn you guys off to it. It's a solid way to make money without a lot of education. But keep in mind the incredible amount of stress you will build while telling a thousand guys who hate your guts what to do everyday. You need some serious strength of character to do this job. Also keep in mind many officers DON'T have strong characters and you will be working with some very beaten down, very cruel, very untrustworthy people.
It's no wonder they have sky high suicide rate.
you didn't work the FED prison system, obviously. it's a piece of cake. parking lot is full of $40,000 pickup trucks. fed prison guards make twice as much base pay as state guards, and can get much more overtime (at least, in some areas of the US).
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I have a friend who is a Federal prison guard and he loves it. And looking at him he has some muscle but otherwise doesn't have what one would call a tough look to him.
plenty of weak little women work as Fed prison guards. well over half of the inmates are minimum or low security, can be kept in unfenced camps. women are not allowed to work the high security prisons, but that's less than 10% of the system. If you get in your probationary year, take culinary school and move where they need a cook supervisor, you'll be making $32 an hour and have 20 hours of overtime, as a regular guard, at $39 per
yeah, as a petite woman guard, she'd better be a black belt at a SERIOUS striking art, like the one that I teach. But, realistically, the offenders would have been beaten with batons, every day, for a year, in the Fed system. It doesn't happen there. I dont personally know of a single case, in 18 years of experience and never heard of any, on the "grapevine" either. The 2-3 per year that do happen in the Federal system are always on men and almost always, the mofo had it coming in the WORST way. hundreds more such Fed pigs have it coming and it never catches up to them. All that she has to do is slap (or fall upon) a big button on her belt radio and dozens of cops will come running.