You cannot make a lving doing security in SoCal. Right now most of the security companies do not want someone who speaks english. They want a warm body that dosen't complain about being paid minimum wage to do graveyard shifts in the Ghetto. I applied at two companies and was told I was overqualified.
There are two ways to make security work for you.
1. You get a job working at a bar, club, or contract security for concerts WHILE YOU GO TO SCHOOL. You will make decent money but not from your paycheck though. You can get tips at a bar, sneak people in back entrances for money, find wallets on the ground, shake down drug dealers selling on you premises, scalp tickets you get for free etc...
2. You get a job doing contract security at the worst site possible. This is because your "Field Supervisor" would rather not check up on you, at say abondon houses in the ghetto. So he has you check in by phone once an hour. This was my favorite site as an undergrad because you could leave after they checked up on you and they wouldn't notice. Just make sure you get site where you don't get "Relieved". I had this job for a year I would go the site and check in at 8pm(I was supposed to to work until 4am). My boss got off work at midnight. Sometimes he would come by sometimes he wouldn't. At about 9 or 9:30 I would just leave. If he came down and said he couldn't find me I would stall him while I drove back down to the site(site was about 4 city blocks). I eventually took a another job at a club. Just to see if they could ever catch me I quit showing up to the site all together but kept checking by phone as if I was there. I got paid for the next three months!
The important part is to GO TO SCHOOL. I'm working on my masters degree right now while working the front door at two local clubs. I'm also doing an internship. I pay all my bills no problem and have some extra money left over.
Also whenever I have met someone who is trying to make an actual career out of security they are total rejects. No one likes them they just placate them, because they have there little report book that can get regular employees in trouble. Do not try to make security your career unless you enlist in the military or something.
OH YA I ALMOST FORGOT...GO TO SCHOOL!!!
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