I have been thinking about starting an Association for Security Officers for some time now. The main reason that I think we need our Association is because there is not a group out there that represents us THE ?Security Officer?, I have found a couple but as I stated before they are mostly for originations, or unprofessional or they only want to make money from us. In fact, this is the first professional Security officer Forum that I have found.
I have been very lucky in the Security Industry, I love this business I have been in the security business since I was 18, I started out making minimum wage and now I make an excellent salary. I am not saying this to brag, but to let people know that you can do well in this business if you have a place for advice and to network.
I want to give back and help my fellow Security officers in what can be a trying profession to be in. We get very little respect from the public, corporate managers look at us an expense that creates no profit for there company and Public Law Enforcement has varied opinions of us (generally not positive). We need a place where we can band together for the good of the people that work in this industry.
I would like to ask for your help in creating such an origination and I will completely fund the creation of this Association myself.
Here are my ideas:
- The Association will be FREE for all Security Professionals to join, many of us are modestly paid and I will not take advantage of anyone in this business.
-I spoke to a web developer that makes websites that are similar to the website ?friendster.com? I feel that this type of site will best serve us because this type of websites main purpose is to network a group of people with a similar interest together. I have already given him a deposit and the site will be up in a few weeks. This will be a ?bare bones? version of the site, we will work together to make the site into something we can all be proud of (like the colors, text, ect).
-What will be the name of this Association? We need to decide this soon because I need to purchase and register the web domain. An idea I came up with is: American Security Officers Association, What do you think
-The creation of this Association will be an ?Open Project? meaning all Security Officers will have input on the creation of the Association, we will work together to make this into something that represents the ?working man? Security Officer.
What do all of you think?
I have been very lucky in the Security Industry, I love this business I have been in the security business since I was 18, I started out making minimum wage and now I make an excellent salary. I am not saying this to brag, but to let people know that you can do well in this business if you have a place for advice and to network.
I want to give back and help my fellow Security officers in what can be a trying profession to be in. We get very little respect from the public, corporate managers look at us an expense that creates no profit for there company and Public Law Enforcement has varied opinions of us (generally not positive). We need a place where we can band together for the good of the people that work in this industry.
I would like to ask for your help in creating such an origination and I will completely fund the creation of this Association myself.
Here are my ideas:
- The Association will be FREE for all Security Professionals to join, many of us are modestly paid and I will not take advantage of anyone in this business.
-I spoke to a web developer that makes websites that are similar to the website ?friendster.com? I feel that this type of site will best serve us because this type of websites main purpose is to network a group of people with a similar interest together. I have already given him a deposit and the site will be up in a few weeks. This will be a ?bare bones? version of the site, we will work together to make the site into something we can all be proud of (like the colors, text, ect).
-What will be the name of this Association? We need to decide this soon because I need to purchase and register the web domain. An idea I came up with is: American Security Officers Association, What do you think
-The creation of this Association will be an ?Open Project? meaning all Security Officers will have input on the creation of the Association, we will work together to make this into something that represents the ?working man? Security Officer.
What do all of you think?
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