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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bigdawg90" data-source="post: 3804043" data-attributes="member: 49831">The hardest part about leaving the profession is thinking of anything else that could be as fun.  Plus unless you want to go into the tactical arena, there are few areas to put the skills you learn as a cop.  I work in a very liberal city, I’m educated and I have other skills but it is still very difficult to just up and leave.  Add into that your brothers and sisters that you’ve fought with, trained with and gone through stuff with.  You get your group of four or five, but leaving those guys feels like leaving family.  I don’t ever think, man I’ll miss pushing a black and white.  I think about the kit up time before a high risk search warrant, the times during the fights that you thank God you're not alone, and the times when your in armor riding to a location and you know someone has your back.  My wife has never felt that kind of camaraderie and it shows.  Not many will ever understand.  Just up and leaving is not always an option.  It’d be like saying if your wife and 5 kids get annoying you up and leave.  The problem with OK departments is in most cases they don’t offer reciprocity for other states peace officer certifications.  You go through a decade at one department only to have to restart with an academy and start fresh with a full FTO program.</blockquote>