Career Essay: US Customs And Border Protection

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With so many new jobs and job opportunities developing in today's world there is an endless number of careers one can have. To choose my career I had to take many things into consideration like, how the job would fit me and the yearly salary of the job. The career I choose to research is U.S Customs and Border Protection. A Custom officer, also referred to as federal agents or CBP would be in the same category as a police officer or detective. The reason that I would like to be a Custom officer is because I want to be able to protect the people of my country. Stopping crime, drugs and terrorist from entering this country would be very satisfying to me. Also, Custom officers get paid very good with a minimal amount of education and training …show more content…

For instance, to become a Customs officer one will need to pass multiple fitness tests. While training at the FLETC academy one will be required to take a two-hour fitness class each day. Fitness training is required because Customs officers need to have the ability to do rigorous manual labor if needed. Also, while training at FLETC trainees will be taught skills like, how to properly shoot a gun and how to have good aim, along with this they will teach trainees driving skills as if they were in a high-speed chase. Being a Customs officer requires a lot of knowledge about the U.S government and law. Knowing the law is required to pass the training to become a Customs officer. Depending which border the officer is located at, which will be either Mexican or Canadian border, Custom officers will need to have a basic understanding of the language, either French or Spanish (CBPO pay and …show more content…

When deciding what career paths, I wanted to choose, looking at and seeing what the advantages and disadvantages were played a very important part in this decision. There are many advantages that come with being a Customs officer. One of the biggest advantages are the pay and benefits. One can make a lot of money being a Customs officer with just a small amount of college education. Along with this most border ports have a work out facility located in the building which allows the officers to be active and stay in shape. The last advantage is that, working at the border ports can be very satisfying as a job knowing that you are protecting your country from drugs and terrorist. The one thing I hate most about the possibility of working for the government is, shift work. Working shifts would be very hard because shifts are always revolving, which means my sleeping schedule would always be changing, eventually when I have a family I could miss out on important memories because I would be working. I’ve seen from experience how difficult shift work is. My brother has had to work two eight hour shifts in a row because someone didn’t show up. Working sixteen hours straight would be very difficult.
Personality strengths that I match that would make me a good fit to become a Custom officer. I believe that I have very good communication skills which would fit perfectly with being a customs officer, because officers

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