Re: 911:: Years in Dispatch

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At 11:58 01/18/2002 -0500, my great friend Kathy from the Colorado

mountains wrote:

>ummm.. All I'll say is I'm in my 4th decade !!!!!

>Kathy

IN DISPATCH??? Or on this earth???? Goodness, I'm a few years further

into that 4th decade but I've only been dispatching since 1977! (And I

thought *I* teethed on a Plantronics headset!)

<grin>

Happy to be here, proud to serve.

Olmstead

Communications Supervisor

~on the Central California coastline~

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12 years and love it, I would love it more with more pay but wouldn't

everyone

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Kathy...that means you started as a baby!!

Almost 4 years for me, the last one as supervisor.

And Welcome to all the new members..hope you enjoy the list as much as I do.

Freida

LaVergne, TN

> ummm.. All I'll say is I'm in my 4th decade !!!!!

> Kathy

>

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3rd year here and loving every minute of it

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7 1/2 years and still loving my job.

Amy

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I've been doing the job for 13 1/2 years and wouldnt want to do anything else.

Most of us just got a 13.3 % raise. Cant ask for much more than that.

Kim

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Been in the ole market for 11 yrs now. Love it...work the midnites...and

wouldnt have it any other way.

From the drac Cin in good ole Ohio

happy day...be safe!~~

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I'm just a rookie, been doing this 19 months now. I love every minute of

it. I think I have found my calling. We also use 10 codes. My personal

favorite is 10-45 (animal carcass at...), I use that one just to make our

guys have to look it up.

Terri

Rantoul IL PD

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Been dispatching for 6 months and I dont think I'll ever stop!!!!

Anyone have any advise for a long wonderful career?

Blount Co., TN

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2-1/2 -- the last 3 months have been the best.

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<<Anyone have any advise for a long wonderful career? >>

Don't take it to heart....you are only a cog....a very important cog, but,

nontheless, just a cog.

Don't sweat the petty stuff.

Bob

Dispatcher

http://www.lesa.net

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After 19 1/2 years, including 10 years as a trainer, 1 as a training

supervisor and 2 as a communications supervisor. I still love this job

because you see something new every day. I just interviewed and tested 22

apps for 1 position and only 12 passed the written. Some didn't even pass the

initial interview because they had pending criminal cases. Why in the world

would anyone come to the PD to apply for a job there ESPECIALLY when thats

the agency that holds the criminal case. I was really dumbfounded but

then..................this is dispatch and every day brings something

different.

Clyde Walters Communications Supervisor

Pinellas Park PD

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i'm going on 15 years dispatching

Peggy

Beverly Ma FD

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I've been here for going on 12 years. People here

think that's a really long time, but after reading

this list, I'm just a baby.

Owens

Kane County Dispatch

Kanab, UT

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I've disptched for 3 1/2 years, the last 7months as Comm Manager.

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18 1/2 years, Remember why you started and leave it there when you go home!

P46

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JEANNE, WHICH STATE?

PAWNEE OHP

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I had 14 1/2 years in Dispatch - 7 as a Supervisor. Someone else said it,

I think it was Frieda....Dispatch is easy, it's the supervising that

bites. That was also true for me. But really, the hours is what finally

kicked my butt. Or was it the administration? Being shorthanded? Feeling

like a burr on my director's backside? The lack of technological

advances? Lack of training offerings? It was a combination of all of

these.

I felt burn out one time and that was right after a department move. I

worked 6 months hard labor getting everything moved and organized - and

that was just a result of the actual move! Doesn't count the number of

weeks spend planning the silly thing! Once everything got organized, I

took an on-duty sabatical for a few months. I went to work, but only did

what was required - nothing extra. Took me a couple of years to get a

jumpstart on my motivation, and I was never back up to my pre-move level.

4 months ago I got a " normal " job with normal hours. Last night my husband

told me that he had two out-of-town conferences scheduled for the next

week. I shrugged my shoulders and said " okay " . Previously, I would have

panicked about my work schedule and " what do I do with my daughter if I

have to work while you are gone " ! It took me a bit to realize that I

wasn't even concerned about my work schedule. It took 4 months, but I

think I'm finally there - stress free! Yeah!

I always liked dispatching. I miss the interaction I had with the people

on the phone and the officers. I can't say that I would have stayed longer

if I was dispatching. I actually would have changed jobs long ago if I had

to dispatch. And that was because of the hours - not the job. As a

supervisor, more stresses are placed upon you. Sometimes they just get to

be too much for too long.

annette hallmark

tamu utilities (formerly UPD)

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I had 14 1/2 years in Dispatch - 7 as a Supervisor. Someone else said it,

I think it was Frieda....Dispatch is easy, it's the supervising that

bites. That was also true for me. But really, the hours is what finally

kicked my butt. Or was it the administration? Being shorthanded? Feeling

like a burr on my director's backside? The lack of technological

advances? Lack of training offerings? It was a combination of all of

these.

I felt burn out one time and that was right after a department move. I

worked 6 months hard labor getting everything moved and organized - and

that was just a result of the actual move! Doesn't count the number of

weeks spend planning the silly thing! Once everything got organized, I

took an on-duty sabatical for a few months. I went to work, but only did

what was required - nothing extra. Took me a couple of years to get a

jumpstart on my motivation, and I was never back up to my pre-move level.

4 months ago I got a " normal " job with normal hours. Last night my husband

told me that he had two out-of-town conferences scheduled for the next

week. I shrugged my shoulders and said " okay " . Previously, I would have

panicked about my work schedule and " what do I do with my daughter if I

have to work while you are gone " ! It took me a bit to realize that I

wasn't even concerned about my work schedule. It took 4 months, but I

think I'm finally there - stress free! Yeah!

I always liked dispatching. I miss the interaction I had with the people

on the phone and the officers. I can't say that I would have stayed longer

if I was dispatching. I actually would have changed jobs long ago if I had

to dispatch. And that was because of the hours - not the job. As a

supervisor, more stresses are placed upon you. Sometimes they just get to

be too much for too long.

annette hallmark

tamu utilities (formerly UPD)

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12 days and having a ball!!! LOL

Deb

Illinois

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you would do that!! LOL

<My personal favorite is 10-45 (animal carcass at...), I use that one

just to make our guys have to look it up. Terri Rantoul IL PD>

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23 years

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