“Observe And Report” Behind the Scenes With Security

April 30, 2009

Coming Soon- How to Earn 30-70K in Security, Without a Degree

Make 30-70k In Security

Make 30-70k In Security

This book is not for you if you enjoy horrible working conditions for minimal wages. It cannot help you if you really believe that Security Professionals are actually nothing more than “Rent-A-Cops”, or that you need years of experience to succeed.

 

This book is not for you if being the butt of joke from your friends about working as a Security Guard. If you don’t mind riding the bus while in uniform just to get to your job site, then this is not a book that can help you.

 

If you enjoy protecting lives and millions of dollars worth of equipment while only making minimal wage then continue what you are doing and leave this book on the shelve. If working for a company that will not provide you with the equipment and training to do the job is your idea of success then you do not need this book.

 

If you are ok with Hollywoods potrayal of security in movies such as “Mall Cop” then you shouldn’t read this book. If you have resigned your fate to working in a parking lot dealing with heat and fumes and do not want to get a better security job, then this book is not the answer.

 

Now, for those of you who want to actually get paid for what you are worth, get prepared because this book was written to show you exactly how to make this dream a reality.

 

Discover these secrets and more:

 

How to land just about any Security Job you apply for.

 

Which Companies are the best to work for and why.

 

How working in one certain area of security will put you on the fast track to success.

 

How to get free training that you can utilize to make more money and move up.

 

Which companies you can transfer positions from coast to coast or overseas.

 

How to get a position on the famous Las Vegas Strip by meeting one special lady.

 

How to turn in your uniform and make more money working undercover.

 

How to turn your Security knowledge into you own Security Company for less than you think.

 

These are just a few of the Secrets you will learn about Security that are inside this book. If you are tired of working tons of overtime just to make ends meet, then this book is for you. In order to earn a good wage, you have to work smarter, not harder. Right?

 

What if you suddenly knew where to position yourself so that employees contacted you instead of the other way around for security positions? Wouldn’t that make things a whole lot easier?

 

How would you like to know which security position that could net you 30-70K per year, starting tomorrow? Yes, this position exists and it can be your if you know where to look for it.

 

I’ve been in the Security career field for over 20 years and trust me when I say that things have changed. Especially when it comes to compensation. In 1987 after getting out of the US Air Force, my first job in Security paid me a whopping $6.00 per hour. To make matters worse, I lived in Hawaii and anyone who has ever lived there will tell you that $6.00 will not go very far on the Islands, even in the late 80’s.

 

During this time I had to make a decision, the one I made turned out to be a good one and that is why all these years later I am still working in Security. I chose not to go into Law Enforcement when I discovered that 2 years later I was earning almost the same as rookie police officers.

 

I’ve worked as a Guard, Loss Prevention, Investigations, Consulting, Force Protection and other areas within the career field. I’ve loved every minute of it and just like you, there have been times when I’ve doubted my decision to get into security. However, I perservered and moved forward and up the ladder of success in this field. You can too!

 

I’ve taken proven steps that I have utilized throughout my career and I’ve put it inside this book in laymen terms so that anyone can read it and make the proper adjustments to succeed, if they really want to. That’s what it really takes, commitment and determination to acheive a goal, just like iin every other aspect of life.

 

I’ve helped many young officer and even seasoned officers over the years to move up to make their share of the unlimited amounts of income in security. Will you be next?

 

Real Testimonials:

 

I haven’t read the book yet, but I plan to buy it anyway. Over the years Mike has assisted me in obtaining several high paying security jobs, to include one in the Middle-East. He told me exactly what to do and following his instructions I was given a position in Kuwait that I had no previous experience for, while there I was properly trained and I excelled at it. I earned over seventy thousand dollars per year while I was there. Thanks Mike, my family and I are still in your debt for your assistance with that one.

 

J. L. Turner, jlt232@yahoo.com

 

Mike found me working in a restuarant and convinced me that as a woman I could make a whole lot of money working in Loss Prevention. I had no experience and didn’t even know what asset protection was, let alone what they did on the job. But, I trusted his judgement and accepted his guidence and by simply taking the position I got a pay raise from the amount I was making serving food. Today I’ve parlayed the experience I obtained in LP to a great position with TSA.

 

Jane Malonzo, Las Vegas

 

The first time I met Mike I was working on the loading docks at a retail company. We talked and he asked if unloading trucks was my idea of success? A few months later I was working with him, learning how to conduct surveillance on foot. He taught me everything I needed to know about working Asset Protection. The thing I like the most about him is that he always pushed me to move up in the career field. Now, 4 years later I am a District LP Manager. Had I not met him this would never have been possible, I am sure. So if his new book has half of what he taught me, the sky is the limit for anyone who wants it.

 

Tim Mosley, Flint Michigan

 

These are just a few of the letters I have receieved from Officers that I have helped over the years. I enjoy working with people who want to learn and have goals in life. Hopefully you will be one of them in the future.

 

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August 29, 2008

The tale of the $6.00 Security Guard

Once, I worked as a guard for a company that had a Government contract.  It was really easy, but the pay was lousy.   I made $6.00 per hour.  Every day, I’d get the paper when I got off and look for another job.  The guys I worked with thought I was crazy. 

             Late night, we’d stand around and talk.  They were basically happy making peasant wages.  Not me, every night, I’d tell them I was getting out of here the first chance I got. 

            Guys would ask me, “Where you going to go and make more money than this working security?” 

             I’d tell them I was worth more than six bucks; I was going to find a job for at least twice that.  They’d all laugh and say, “There are no $12.00 jobs in security,” and that I should stop dreaming and get back to work.

            Then one morning, just about the same time I got into bed after the night shift, the company I worked for called.  The personnel lady informed me that my security clearance papers hadn’t been filled out properly and they wanted me to come in right then and correct them so they could conduct the background check.

            Now, I’m not a fool; I knew that this clearance was going to cost them at least ten thousand dollars and they wanted to pay me six fucking dollars.  I told the lady that there wasn’t a whole lot I’d do for six dollars, and getting out of bed to drive thirty minutes to fill out a form was one of the things I would not do.  I hung up the phone.

            When I got back to work that night, the supervisor came to me and inquired about the forms.  I told him the same thing I’d told the lady on the phone.  Then the asshole asked me why I had to be so belligerent.  At that moment, I gave my two weeks’ notice. 

              Later, we were outside having our normal talk, and all the other officers again told me there were no twelve dollar jobs, and that the company we worked for was a good company, and that I should go fill out the form and stay. 

               I did my two weeks and told them all to take care; I was going to find me a good paying security job. 

              The next day, I landed a job for $13.00!  I worked for a couple of months and, one day, I was on my way home from work when I decided to stop in and check on my old friends.  I pulled up and they all came out and asked how things were going. 

               I explained how I had landed a new job and what it paid.  They all got excited and I told them that there were no more thirteen dollar jobs, I got the last one.  Before I left, I also informed them I was waiting on my weapons permit and that I was in line for another job that paid eighteen dollars an hour.  They almost went into shock.  I laughed all the way home.

               Several months later, after I had started working my new job, I dropped by to check on them again.  This time, I was driving a shiny new 300ZX.  I pulled up and they didn’t have a clue who the fuck I was.  They all stood there looking to see who was in the car.

           I got out and they almost fainted.  I told them about my latest job and its eighteen dollar pay, and they almost shit.  They wanted to know how they could get a position at the new place. “Sorry,” I told them, “they have no more eighteen dollar positions.  I got the last one.” 

            But, before I left, I couldn’t help but explain to them about the new position I had accepted.  I’d taken a position overseas that paid a whopping seventy thousand dollars!  They couldn’t believe it. 

            The moral to this story is, if you feel like six bucks is all you’re worth, then six dollars is all you’ll ever get.

August 8, 2008

“Observe and Report” Book Trailer

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“When asked how did I created such an interesting book about Security, I simply tell people… I took the approach of creating a car wreck. Everyone looks as they pass by (rubbernecking), to recreate this effect for Security I removed the mundane from the job and let the officers tell about the exciting and interesting events of their profession. Events that contain humor, drama, excitement, horror and humility. The readers of my book love this, short to the point stories that keep you entertained. Most readers say that once they pick this book up they simply cannot put it down.” M. Oden

February 17, 2008

Security and Ghosts

We were assigned to  Kunia Point Satellite tracking station on the Island of Oahu in Hawaii.  It was about a thirty minute drive from our regular base.  When you get there, there’s a guard shack at the bottom of the entrance near the beach.
 The guard shack is usually manned by two DOD (Department of Defense) guards.  We manned the top portion.  From the bottom of the hill to the top, it takes about ten minutes to drive along a narrow winding roadway.  Once on the top, the view is breathtaking; it’s beautiful. 
 On any given day, you could actually drive through the clouds.  The point sits so high on the mountain top that the clouds cover it some days.  The first time you see this, you feel like a kid.  Walking in the clouds is something I’ll never forget; it feels damp, like fog.
 Our job was to patrol the area on top which housed all the satellite buildings.  They tracked everything coming and going from airplanes to missiles.  It’s really a boring job once you get over the beauty of the place.
 However, with all that beauty comes something else, and I learned it the hard way.  One night, both the DOD guards called in sick; instead of just one security specialist, they sent two of us. 
 Since I had the higher rank, I assigned my co-worker to work the guard shack on the bottom of the hill and I took the top.  I did this primarily because I wanted to get some sleep. 
 At the top, I found a clearing where I could park my truck.  Then I prepared for some serious shut eye.  But, for some reason, I couldn’t sleep and the wind kept blowing the truck back and forth.  I don’t know why, but I also had an eerie feeling that I wasn’t alone.  I rolled up the windows of the truck and locked the doors, and tried again to settle down for a little sleep. 
 I nodded off for about an hour, but, for some reason, I awoke.  I remember looking at my watch, perturbed.  It was only 0200 hours and I still had six hours to go before we’d be relieved. 
 Out of the corner of my eye, I saw some movement.  Once I got my eyes focused, I observed a man on a black horse riding down the side of the mountain.
 The crazy thing wasn’t that he was there; it was the strange way I reacted.  I remember saying to myself, “What the hell is this idiot doing in a restricted area at two o’clock in the morning on a damn horse?”  Then, I unlocked my door as the horseman got nearer, and I exited the truck.  I looked over the truck and he was standing, still looking at me.  I reached down to grab my m-16 rifle.  When I lifted my head to check on him, he was gone!  Disappeared!   
 Hell, I did the exact same thing.  I jumped back into that truck and hauled ass.  By the time I arrived at the gate shack at the bottom, the truck’s brakes were smoking.
 I slid up to the gate shack and ran inside where my co-worker was busy typing out the shift blotter.  I think I scared him by the way I came in because his eyes were big as mine.  He later asked me what had happened.  But I couldn’t tell anyone; I didn’t know how to explain it.
 Later, when we got back to our regular base, I located my boss and requested that I return to the Point for the next several nights.  I never told him why but he approved it.  I had to know for myself if I’d actually seen what I thought. 
 One thing bothered me the most.  When I replayed the image in my mind, I realized the man on the horse looked like one of the old Hawaiian Warriors from the paintings I’d seen.  No shirt, a black cape and a wooden helmet. 
 The next night, I returned to the Point.  This time, the two DOD guards were back.  Before I headed for the top, I also checked out a pistol from the shack.  This, with my m-16, made me feel a little better.
 I was using an old patrol car since the truck, because of its brakes, was due for maintenance.  After a little chit chat with the guards, I slowly made my way to the top of the mountain.  I went back to the place where I’d seen the man on the horse.  Of course, I saw nothing this time.  So, I decided to make my rounds. 
 I was on my way up to the water tower when, off in the distance, in the bushes, I heard something moving toward me.  The closer it got, the louder the sound became.  I could tell it was big because the bushes were moving.  I stopped the car and I knew I couldn’t get my M16 because it was under my legs.  So, I was trying to get my revolver out, but, my seatbelt was over it.  I was tried like hell to get that seatbelt off as this thing got closer and closer to the vehicle.  I started screaming when it was a few feet away in the bushes and I kept screaming while I tried to pull my revolver out!  All of a sudden, a large wild Hawaiian Pig came out of the brush.  The pig ran across the road, in front of my car, and into the bushes on the other side.  The thing was so damned big it had to have been four feet high to the top of his back.  When it was all over, I almost fainted.  In my mind, I thought something was really going to get me.
 After that scare, I felt I needed some human companionship.  I drove back down to the guard shack.  The DOD guards were Hawaiian and they’d been working the post for a very long time.  I told them about the pig incident and they were a little depressed because I didn’t shoot it so they could eat it.  The rest of the night went without incident.
 On the third night, the DOD guards called me to return to the gate shack because they wanted to talk to me.  I returned and was told that they knew why I was there so many days in a row.
 They said they knew I had seen something on the mountain.  They also assured me that I wasn’t the only person ever to see something they couldn’t explain.  I was told that the location was the point where spirits left this world for the next and that, sometimes, they didn’t go. 
 I guess I should have felt better but, actually, it made me feel a little more uneasy.  I still had two more days at the point and the last thing I wanted was to see someone who refused to be where he was supposed to be.<a href=”http://www.observeandreport.net

February 15, 2008

Starting out as a Security Guard

My first guard job, when I came out of the Corps, didn’t last long.  I was hired to work for a company in LA, and they sent me to guard a junk yard.  
 I was just out of the Corps, so, I was still a little bit eaten up.  Regardless of the uniform I was wearing, I had to be all spit and polished.  I arrived at the junk yard and reported to the owner.  Man, was he an asshole.  But, he was a former Marine, like me, and a Viet Nam vet to boot. 
 He took me on a quick tour of the compound and made sure that I paid special attention to his prized possessions.  He had a small area that had nothing but old beat up Cadillac’s; there must have been thirty of them.  He told me that he had people coming at night, stripping those Caddies, and my job was to make sure it didn’t happen again.
 When everyone was gone from the lot and the night got late, it was a good opportunity to evaluate my situation.  A month ago, I was a Marine Corps sniper; now, I was sitting in the middle of a junkyard working as a security guard.  Damn!   
 I was depressed; here I was sitting in my car, and, hell, it looked right at home in this salvage yard.  I had a .38 revolver but only three rounds of ammo.  The radio the company issued me might or might not work in the event of an emergency.  My flashlight stopped working shortly after I left home!   
 Somewhere in the middle of feeling sorry for myself, I fucking fall asleep.  Can you believe it, falling asleep, my first night on the job?  When I woke up, I heard the owner screaming something about those fucking Caddies!  Hell, I knew I was fired, so I started my rusted out car and went home.
 Later that day, while I was going through the want ads again, the guard company called me and said that the owner wasn’t as mad as I thought and they wanted me to go back to the junkyard again. 
  Shit, the classified section of the newspaper didn’t have a whole lot, so I figured I’d better do a good job this time or I might have to go work at McDonalds.  When I arrived, the owner pretty much blew me off.  Which was ok; I was lucky to be working. 
 This time, I stayed out of my car and made rounds of the compound like I was on patrol in the Corps.  But by 1:00 am, I was tired.  Then, I saw what appeared to be movement in the corner of my eye.  Yeah, I thought I saw something; it was the shadows of three guys as they were climbing under the fence.  They hadn’t seen me, so, I moved into the shadows to get the jump on them.  I got to within about twenty feet of them and with my trusty .38 drawn, I shouted “FREEZE!”  They froze alright, but not the two pit bulls they had with them.  Those two dogs chased my ass through the compound and I was screaming like a bitch.  Finally, I jumped up on some crushed cars and the dogs couldn’t get to me. 
 I was on that stack of cars until daylight, but, I didn’t know if they’d left yet.  The whole night, I was trying to make contact with the guard service on the radio they’d given me.  Piece of shit didn’t work!   
 The owner walked through the lot and he was cussing about his fucking caddies being stripped and how pissed off he was.  He didn’t know that I was above him on some cars.  I jumped down right in front of him and scared the shit out of him.  Somewhere, he’d picked up my .38 that I’d dropped when the dogs chased me.  Before he could say anything, I grabbed it out of his hands and ran to my car.  This time I didn’t care if they fired me or not because I’d already made up my mind to quit!<a href=”http://www.observeandreport.net

February 14, 2008

“Observe And Report”

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For the first time you’ll be able to go behind the scenes and see what Security personnel do on the job. Each story is a different officer and they’ll entertain you with funny, witty, amusing, sad and sometimes tragic events from their jobs. All in the line of duty to protect life limb and property, yours!

A great book for anyone contemplating entering this amazing career field, has worked in the field or simply the curious reader whom wants to be entertained. You can order your copy by visiting  www.observeandreport.net

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