Episode 3: Grow Anyway: How to Lead and Advance in 911 Dispatch

That's a great point, Ashley, because I would also say back when I was in college, you know, when you were in grade school, same thing.

I changed my major a couple times and it didn't pan out how I thought my college career was going to go.

And I took a class and like loved my criminal justice.

I loved my professor.

He was great.

He made the class interesting.

And I'm like, I actually might not cut class and come to this class.

Like, and

that was like, huh? And that kind of sparked it with me.

So I took another one and I had like two or three really good instructors that really wrote me in.

None of them, although they studied criminal justice, none of them really came from that background.

You But it opened my eyes to the field.

It never specifically mentioned dispatch or anything to that effect.

I just happened to have a college roommate that was like, girl, you need money.

I'm making money.

I'm doing this dispatch thing.

And I was like, what am I going to do with a degree in criminal justice? Like, what am I going to do? And my best friend in college luckily there was a criminal justice club and she was like kind of like let's take this thing and run with it because we were interested in like the FBI not necessarily being an agent but other things you could do for that or you know dispatching as a career or.

I thought I was going to be like a CSI person.

And then I was like, oh, I have to be sworn to do that.

I mean, not every agency, but a lot were right.

There was just not a route for professional staff.

So luckily, she's like, I'll be the president if you be the vice president.

And we just made the we did a bunch of different like field trips and really, really made it our own.

And one of them was experiencing dispatch.

And I was like, huh,