Changing job, what should I do?

[teatimeplease]

So currently a police officer that doesn't want to be a police officer anymore but I have no idea what I actually want to do!

What job would you think would suit someone with them kind of transferable skills? I'm on about 30k which would go to about 40k so can't really drop below that.

Skills wise ive been a response cop and investigative.

I'd rather not be doing ridiculous shifts too so something more stable for family life

Sorry no advice but thank you for your service. We need good police officers but I can imagine it's pretty stressful.

What do you like most about your job? What parts bring you the most satisfaction? Which aspects of your performance are consistently recognised and valued by colleagues / management?

If you’re a good police officer, I’d imagine you’ll be good at deescalating difficult situations; used to working under pressure / in challenging circumstances; have good people skills; have basic legal knowledge and knowledge of statutory service provision and the differing responsibilities of services; not be phased by sometimes gruesome scenes. If you like and want to continue working with people, all of those are skills which would lend well to anything from say, being a housing or tenancy officer or antisocial behaviour specialist with a council / HA, to working on the support and rehabilitation side with ex offenders and people with complex needs; right through to a completely different sort of role like claims and operations in insurance, where there’s a lot of negotiation and pushing things through and often challenging customers and difficult conversations to be had.

Second this! 😀

As a police officer you will have soooo many transferable skills, once you start looking you'll find there's loads you could walk into. Do you fancy staying in policing but not as an officer? Or there's probation, or something in the courts?

Insurance claims - they love people who have a generous amount of suspicion and investigative skills when it comes to larger claims. DH used to specialise in fraud (which includes things like economic arson) and found it fascinating

Thank you for such a detailed reply! This is great, I'll have a look in to the jobs you've suggested. You've got the skills down to a t, (some I'm better at than others 😅)

@Peachandwatermelon @CaribbeanCupcake

Thank you both!

@CaribbeanCupcake I want to leave altogether- I would have stayed and just moved to a different role but honestly it's such a toxic place to work- being out on the streets is the easy but,dealing with the politics within the station is the issue