Jimmy Thompson:  

Life Where to begin? I always hate doing these kind of things. Guess I'll just start from after I left Biloxi. We moved to central California. I hated that. It was like Redneckville, USA. Out in the middle of nowhere. In the middle of my junior year we moved back home (northwest WA). After graduation I moved to Victoria, BC, Canada for three years. I was going to college and tryin my hand at a degree in chemistry. I had too much freedom and not enough discipline. I ended up losing my funding and quit school in 2001. I moved back home and worked for AmeriCorps for a year in the school here. After that I did odd jobs until I found my current job: a police officer. I started June of 2003. I quit in 2004 and worked for a security company in Auburn, WA (a few minutes south of Tacoma). I left because of personal feelings against a bunch of my coworkers. But eventually realized I wanted to be a cop here and hated the security gig (flashlight cop...lol). So November last year (2004) I was hired again as an officer. At the end of March I was shipped off to Artesia, NM (southwest New Mexico) to attend the Indian Police Academy at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center. That was 16 weeks that I would not trade for anything in the world. I hated doing it at the time, it was a lot of hard work. But looking back it was a blast and I really miss my classmates from there. Now I have training to get an entry level police officer position just about anywhere. But I can see myself working here as an officer for a long time to come. I haven't had too many serious relationships to speak of since high school. A few that I thought were really going somewhere but turned out being dead ends. I had a son when I was 19. I don't get to see him much. I broke up with his mother right before she was going to tell me she was pregnant, and she's always thought that was why I did it. So she's been very vindictive about the whole thing. So I don't see him much. In fact it's been a few years since I have seen him. I've come to terms with it and figure one day he'll want to know who I am. I thought I had something really great at the be...Expand for more