Nick Ford
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I left law enforcement about two years prior to me actually leaving.
I started an ATM machine business.
Starting that ATM business definitely gave me a safety net for when I was deciding to leave law enforcement.
And it wasn't necessarily about like the finances coming in.
It was the fact that I actually created a business, got customers, made sales, and I was actually bringing in revenue.
That is what helped to finally make that jump out of law enforcement.
Thanks, Paul.
Thanks for having me.
Pleasure to be here, man.
So there was actually quite the gap between military and law enforcement.
So I got out of active duty military in 2007 and I entered law enforcement in 2012.
Um, but in Massachusetts back, back then, everybody wanted to be a police officer.
Right.
So I had to take the civil service exam twice and it's only given every two years.
And there were like thousands of people that took it.
Right.
I scored a 99.
I had veterans preference.
Didn't even get a call the first time.
Um,