RE: BuzzSteem Ep. 20 - @bethwheatcraft [Stock Market Dive, Whales Stepping Up, New Year's Fails and Wins]
I think that you will eventually run into a conflict between serving the force and serving Steemit. These spheres are on a head on collision because the police serves state interests whereas the underlying Steem tech is a direct repudiation of those values, and particularly those corrupt centralized interests that the architects of blockchain are attempting disintermediation against.
I have no idea of your motivations for wanting to join the force, but if it's financial, I think you'll do better in Steem in the long run.
I speak from personal experience. Many in my family have been former police and military. My fathers, mothers father was police commissioner for the city of Syracuse (a few decades before I was born). I think this is a picture of him lower right. The family name was Grieb...
I would love to just make money from Steem, but we can hardly live on .65 cent payouts. Haha. Also, it may be a long time before crypto stabilizes, and its value becomes more predictable.
That's an awesome picture! Money is definitely a motivating factor behind joining the police, but I have been interested in law enforcement since I was little. I know it sounds cliche, but I do want to be able to help people. I am especially interested in helping to break up sex trafficking rings. We have a lot of them here in Phoenix because we are so close to the border. (I personally think it would immediately be beneficial to that problem if congress would just legalize prostitution, but since we have so many bible clutchers that ain't never going to happen. It would drastically reduce sex trafficking though, so it's a little disappointing that it's not really an option.)
I definitely can feel the tension between crypto and holding a state position like that, but I also don't feel like I have much of a choice. I am a college drop-out, who has been staying at home with her kids for 7 years, with only work from home experience since then. This job pays well, has benefits, and is ok with my lack of work experience. I also don't think it's such a bad thing to have more ladies on the force! It's a bit of a sausage fest, which doesn't always bode well for the type of position they are in! (That's coming straight from my male detective friend who told me he thought this would be a good position for me.) I also have a lot of Mars in my chart, and Patrick is surprised I wasn't already doing something like this when we met. (Though I had been training prior to having my first child and that just kind of delayed everything.)
I don't think you're not as far away from making it on Steem as you think. Within a year at the pace you're going you will have a self sustaining income.