That would be a hard goodbye after almost four decades of service. This Arizona highway patrolman is giving his final radio call as an officer after 37 years of serving on the same force, and you can see in his face the anguish it’s causing as he signs off for the final time. How could you not tear up during such a moment? The product of nearly forty years of your life finally ends, and another journey is hopefully to begin when he arrives home to a no doubt grateful family and community. Few people every really give a lot of thought about what happens to cops that retire and how they feel about when the final day comes. It’s something that many people don’t give too much consideration largely because the sympathy for cops in this nation at the moment is a very uncertain thing as more and more of them are being reviled due to the actions of the few.
To ride the same stretch of highway year after year, to watch things change as the years progress, and to have to finally part ways with the same place that made you who you are today, is something that a lot of people couldn’t possibly understand. That kind of dedication to a job, a career, is something uniquely impressive as it shows that he was in it no matter what it took, that he was going to stick with it and make it work. There are too many folks out there today that will quit jobs after just a short amount of time, citing many reasons as to why they can’t work at that particular place any longer. This kind of staying power is rare anymore and yet it’s still awesome to witness. This man should be extremely proud and honored to call himself a patrolman for so long. He’s done what many of us never seem to do in our lifetime, enjoy a long and storied career that he’s proud of and will actually be sorry to walk away from.
How many people can really say this about their retirement? It’s easy enough to say that a lot of people out there might genuinely like their job, but a good number wouldn’t be reduced to tears when it comes time to end their last shift. There aren’t a lot of people out there that would think this much of their job, or even career, to break down when it came time to clock out once again and realize that they weren’t going to be coming back. This man obviously loved his job, no matter how hard it likely got at times and no matter how much stress it could have caused him. He didn’t want to leave, you could see it in his eyes, though a part of him no doubt was looking forward to the retirement years. That would come later no doubt, the realization that he now had an abundance of free time.
It’s just awesome to see someone that loves their job this much.
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