rmace1234
11-30-1999, 12:00 AM
im going to be turning 21 in August, and I am currently scheduled to take my written test on April 22nd. If things were to end up well, and I manage to make it all the way to the QAP interview, there are somethings that I am wondering about if they will hurt my chances.
One question I have is that the fact that I am only 20 right now looked at as a bad thing?
I havent always lived the best life I could. At 16 I got into smoking pot (which I will fully disclose) but have grown out of that partying lifestyle, and am currently settled down, and recently married to the love of my life. Even before I knew I wanted to join the CHP I have tried to live my life in a postive way. But another question I have is that it has been three years since i have smoked pot (and that is the only drug I ever did), is that grounds for an automatic DQ, no matter how my life has turned around.
Also one last question I have is on education. I graduated high school fine, but I have not been able to fully go into college full-time, due to the fact that I have to work 60 hrs a week to help support my wife while she finishes up cosmotology school. She graduates in a month and from then on im going back full-time, but will the panel look at that as a negative thing, the fact that I have taken so many semester's off, and have not concentrated on school? And should I wait to try to go through with the hiring process until I have a couple years of schooling under my belt?
Sorry at the long post, but just have a couple questions on my mind. The academy is something i want to pursue extremly bad, so thinking about these things has got me kind of worried.
One question I have is that the fact that I am only 20 right now looked at as a bad thing?
I havent always lived the best life I could. At 16 I got into smoking pot (which I will fully disclose) but have grown out of that partying lifestyle, and am currently settled down, and recently married to the love of my life. Even before I knew I wanted to join the CHP I have tried to live my life in a postive way. But another question I have is that it has been three years since i have smoked pot (and that is the only drug I ever did), is that grounds for an automatic DQ, no matter how my life has turned around.
Also one last question I have is on education. I graduated high school fine, but I have not been able to fully go into college full-time, due to the fact that I have to work 60 hrs a week to help support my wife while she finishes up cosmotology school. She graduates in a month and from then on im going back full-time, but will the panel look at that as a negative thing, the fact that I have taken so many semester's off, and have not concentrated on school? And should I wait to try to go through with the hiring process until I have a couple years of schooling under my belt?
Sorry at the long post, but just have a couple questions on my mind. The academy is something i want to pursue extremly bad, so thinking about these things has got me kind of worried.