Day Eight, 3/21/12

Today was another boring day for you guys because it wasn’t a very eventful.  The very first thing we did was Christian and I got into a great discussion about what I should study in college.  He was saying that in order to become a cop or detective, which is my desired career path, there was really no required college degree.  All that is required is Police Academy training which I already knew I was going to take regardless of college.  College isn’t a requirement but it for sure helps a lot.  Christian gave me a great visual, that there was this great big oval, and he drew out an oval, that represents all of the Academy graduates.  Then he drew a coupe small circles above the oval, these represented the officers, generals, and chiefs of police that would be observing over the oval.  If I wanted to look good, and be at the top of the oval, a college degree in criminology, psychology, writing, would greatly improve my chances at getting the attention of those circles.  That was a real eye opener because I thought I would need a degree on order to be accepted to a police department.  That was a valuable conversation, thanks Christian. After that Christian had “Cattle Call” which is basically going through all of the low key cases and discussing it with the Δ and deciding what their options are.  They call it cattle call because of the amount of cases that come through the court.  There are about 30-50 cases during cattle call so 4-5 attorneys speedily go through each case and try to get those done very methodically and fast.  After that I worked on my project until I left at noon.  I had a half day today because I didn’t really have a lot to do today.  Christian is leaving tomorrow and I was finished, for the time being, with my project so the rest of the day would have consisted of me watching Christian working.