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  • Police officer sitting beside a packed box in a locker room, considering leaving the job.
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    Sometimes quitting is the responsible career decision

    Most advice about when to quit a job is really advice about grit, and in law enforcement there’s even more pressure to stick it out because of everything it took to get where you are. You did the academy, collected the certifications, started the retirement clock, got the seniority, worked the bad shifts, and maybe…

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  • Michael Saad at age 42 and age 52, showing two different stages of his life and career.
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    What turning 52 has taught me about starting over

    Starting over sounds like going back to the beginning, but at 52, I don’t think that’s what it means. I have started over in a few different ways over the last several years. I came back to policing after being away from it for a long time. I went through the police academy again, twenty-eight…

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Michael Saad is a law enforcement veteran whose career has taken him around the world and eventually back to where it started.

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