Bill and all,
I get these bail related story alerts everyday. It saddens me to see a 10 negative stories for every 1 positive.
It reminds me of when I was an "innocent" average citizen and my mother in law asked me to get my bail license 14 or 15 ago.
I told her that I didn't want to work with those scummy criminals. Little did I know then that there were scummy bail agents too. I was naive and thought that bail agents must be the most up standing people around.
But once I did start working in bail, I found that most of the "criminals" weren't all that bad. Most made stupid decisions. Some were drug users, another stupid decision in my opinion. And the rest are just hard core criminals.
What I was not prepared for, was the scumbag bail agents. The back stabbing, under cutting, illegal, unethical doings of just a few. That shocked me.
When I went to my first PBUS convention in Las Vegas, I was in awe of the many bail agents that had decades of experience. To me, they were the cream of the crop. The smartest, brightest, most knowledgable and professional. Only later to find out that there were some among them, that would stab you in the back to make a buck.
That was also true for the California agent convention. Mostly good agents but few bad that as the saying goes, "will smile in your face and stab you in the back when it is turned."
So, I too often feel like quiting and getting a respectable job or just live off the Boss. She makes enough to support the both of us.
However, after meeting all of you men and women on here, other forums and in person, I believe there is hope for the profession. I truly believe this. It is not just talk.
As Scott has said, we may not benefit greatly from NABBI and what ever other work we do in educating the public about bail and bail recovery but, hopefully the work we do will keep the profession alive and our children or others will be able to work in a profession that will some day be respected.
AND BE FREE OF THE A$$HOLES THAT ARE CURRENTLY RUINING IT!
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