[lostsoul]

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private investigator/bail enforcment agent, but that is getting less and less.


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Yes! These were my two guesses. To be honest, that was my main question as I read your thread: what kind of job does this guy have? BTW, how did you get into this line of work?

PS - A+ trip reports. Very entertaining.

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I was in the service, got my degree in criminal justice while I was in. I always wanted my own business and with my degree and training this was pretty much the only option. I was in federal law enforcement for a couple of years to get some more training and experience. Then got out and started my own firm. I did a lot of fugitive recovery there so that went along way in the private sector. There is a lot of money to be made in it. Slowly I have slide more and more to the investigating side of it. Less risk involved with it. I still have a few guys that is all they do. Then there are a couple of us that do the background search, missing children, and recovery type cases. No need to carry a weapon and a lot less likely to get your head bashed in. I am getting older and have wised up with age.

Best way to get into it is either law enforcement experience. There are a few bail enforcement acd's out there. The only one where I have hired someone from that was worth a damn in the end is the northwest bail enforcement acd. It is outside of Seattle. Good school. Every state has different laws about it. Hell Kentucky u can't recover anyone in. Each state has there own requirements to getting licensee. Mine was pretty easy being prior law enforcement.