Inquire as to whether or not your state requires a license to work as a security guard. You can do this by calling your local job service center or calling a security company.
Find out if any local security companies will pay for all or part of your training, if you're required to have a license. They may take it out of your pay in installments.
Find your best offer as far as helping you get your license and then ask them about uniforms. Most companies provide uniforms and let you pay for them out of your check.
Ask if the company you will work for has armed guards. Armed guards make more than unarmed guards, but sometimes the pay doesn't compensate for the extra responsibility. Some security guard companies pay one dollar more an hour to work in the back of an armored truck. You must ask yourself if this is worth an extra dollar. An armed guard usually needs an additional license.Remember that you're not a police officer, nor do you make the kind of money that a police officer makes. You're usually not required to take any type of binding oath that you will put your life on the line to protect property.

Me i would sooner die than become anything that enforces law.
I guess your one side of the fence or the other.

(03-04-2010 07:20 AM)damink Wrote:  Me i would sooner die than become anything that enforces law.
I guess your one side of the fence or the other.

What is it you are saying......... I know one side protects things..... are you saying the other side of the fence is those that take things ????


Many , many years ago during Uni days, I worked as a Sec Grd. for the Pinkertons..... yea I know guarding nuclear secrets on ths stagecoach