In Episode 3 of McNew: Duty. Grit. Grinds I discuss how I was going to school to be a history teacher and working at Sears mixing paint and selling tools.

As fate would have it, I move into a job with Sears loss prevention, which led to meeting some cops, being recruited, locking myself out of my apartment on test day, climbing three stories up a drain pipe to get my keys, and ends with me hiring the future Chief of Police as a police officer of just nine days.