Re: 911:: Years of experience

[Guest guest]

I have 15 yrs in at my present agency-Sebastopol PD (CA) and 4 yrs at two

previous agencies....I must be nuts! HA!

L. Camden

Sebastopol PD

Sebastopol, CA

[Guest guest]

How many people reading this list have more than 10 years of

> employment at a 911 PSAP ?

I have 14 yrs at my agency......concurrent with it is EMS background and Law

enforcement.

I like to think (actually, I know) my experience helps tremendously with my

job. I love it.

Cin in good ole Ohio

[Guest guest]

In a message dated 6/12/2004 7:34:44 PM Pacific Daylight Time,

dsptchmom@... writes:

How many people reading this list have more than 10 years of

>employment at a 911 PSAP

20 years this October. And what a long strange trip it's been... !

Randall Larson

San Fire, Calif

City of Mountain View Comms, Calif

Santa Clara County Communications, Calif

Editor, 9-1-1 Magazine

www.9-1-1magazine.com

[Guest guest]

In a few months, I'll have 23 years at the same place. Only 23 more until I

can afford to retire (just kidding).

I'm outa here in May of 2008. It sounds so far away, but it's close enough

to be scary. I've been fortunate enough to never have had to work on my

birthday, but I will show up on my birthday in 2008, because that's gonna be

my last day. I can actually retire in October of 2007, but I'm gonna hang in

there until my birthday for personal reasons as well as the fact that it

will get me an additional 1% on my retirement check. Every little bit helps.

Then I'm gonna go drive the little red cart with all the flashing lights in

the Wal-Mart parking lot. See ya' there.

Ed

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> How many people reading this list have more than 10 years of

> employment at a 911 PSAP ?

[Guest guest]

I have 23 years, 4 months, and 11 days, which leaves me 29 months and 17 days

til I can retire!!!!! Actually, I think I am going to work 3 months after my 25

years so I can take a month off before I plan on going to work elsewhere.

Dora

Orlando, FL PD

[Guest guest]

Twenty seven years in February.

Sharona911

[Guest guest]

Me x 3

[Guest guest]

Started March 31, 1986 can retire March 31, 2004 gona stay for at least another

10 after that get 2.5 pct multiplier each year for retirement that way will

leave with 75 % pay and I will only be 54 yrs old. And the biggist thing I

still like the job.

[Guest guest]

,

You are always the comedian!!!! Actually I will work somewhere else for about

10 years, where it is still warm and sunny, and then retire for good. Hopefully

somewhere in teh middle bewtween Orlando and Gettysburg. I don't want to be

THAT CLOSE to my sister!!!!! I do miss the snow right now, it has been in the

mid 90's for several weeks now. Too bad they quit taking names for Vancouver or

we could all pile into a big blue van and head North of the Border!!!!

Dora

[Guest guest]

I have 12 years in the FDNY, and 17 total with the city. Thanks to the

25 & out/no age limit pension, I can be out of here September 13, 2012 (but I'm

not

counting the days).

Of course, that's assuming I survive the onset of teenagers. (This is where

that song about " Dispatcher's Little Helper " starts playing.)

Raffa

Supv. Dispatcher, FDNY

Borough of Brooklyn

www.FDNewYork.com

[Guest guest]

Sharona - and you are still working because.......?

[Guest guest]

27 years at South Bay Communications and 7 years before that at LAPD.

Retirement looks better every day!!!

[Guest guest]

Ok,

In conjunction with this, what led you to think this was the job for you?

Not the " I want to help people " answer, WHAT was it about the job that appealed

to you and, is that still a valid reason.

[Guest guest]

I'm still working because I love the job.

I love the people I work with....and I have

to pay the bills somehow....

[Guest guest]

I have 6 years experience here at Hopkins County Sheriffs Office with

about 4 years as supervisor and then 4.5 years previous at local EMS

dispatch and during that all and before that even I have been a

volunteer FF and First Responder about 12.5 years.

Story

[Guest guest]

am leaving this Oct......been 911 dispatcher 36 years.....quite a ride....

Steve Bristow #39

Oakland PD

[Guest guest]

I have 12.5 years in with a lonnnnngggggg way to go. :-)

fpoppy

[Guest guest]

28 years

Bob

http://www.lesa.net

[Guest guest]

>>In conjunction with this, what led you to think this was the job for you?

Not the " I want to help people " answer, WHAT was it about the job that appealed

to you and, is that still a valid reason.<<<

It was 1974, I was on unemployment and applying for jobs everywhere to keep the

benefits coming in. I took the civil service test for dispatcher and passed

somewhere near the top of the list. Went in for the oral interview and was

asked if I was offered any other job compared to dispatch if I would take the

dispatch job. I said no. Well, that sent me down to the bottom of the list. I

didn't know much about it. I was just trying to keep the unemployment $$ coming

in. They got to me at the bottom of the list before it expired.

And the rest is history...............

Bob

[Guest guest]

I probably shouldn't answer this... It gives away far

too much about my age.

I started dispatching at an agency BEFORE the

community even had 9-1-1.

I no longer dispatch... but I'm still a Dispatcher.

Weintraut

[Guest guest]

25 years and counting

Tom C

Cahokia IL

[Guest guest]

I am super nosey and a control freak. I get my fix at work.

mkatt

[Guest guest]

I have been in the business at the same agency since March 1977.... eligible for

retirement October 2005.

Steve

Steve son

Manager - Communications & Technical Services

Lenexa KS Police Department (a Kansas City suburb)

sdavidson@...

www.lenexapd.org

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From: swfla911

Sent: Sat 6/12/2004 04:46

To: 911console

Subject: 911:: Years of experience

How many people reading this list have more than 10 years of

employment at a 911 PSAP ?

[Guest guest]

Started in Palm Springs, Ca 22 years ago....Been here in Florida for the last

8 years... and I still love going to work everyday.

A good dispatcher does what is expected

A great dispatcher anticipates the unexpected

Clyde Walters

Communications Supervisor

Pinellas Park Police

Pinellas Park, Fl

[Guest guest]

Will be 16 years this September for me.