Friday, March 14, 2014

Passed the fitness test

Oh man am I out of shape or what. I pride myself on my physical ability and determination to stay as fit as possible. How the hell did I barely make it through today's testing.

Lucky for me that I lost such a dramatic amount of weight these last few months or I'd have bombed out in the middle of the testing they give you.

I just didn't have the muscle. I don't do much exercise or cardio these days so when I push these tiny muscles they're taxed to the max.

And I payed for it...

But because I weight only 169 pounds, I wasn't like feeling the burn as much. I'm honestly very light now vs at 226 pounds before. So doing all kinds of physical activity is a breeze for me these days because I'm actually like thin and light on my feet.

Hope I get this job. I mean it's a double edged sword. If all is good and GOD blesses me, I'll get my ass in to CBP, get paid a billions dollars and never regret leaving this security job. Or the other side of the track, I get into CBP and it's horrible. They treat you like shit and you work really hard. One thing that struck me was how they test your lifting ability. What's that got to do with border patrol. Most likely, this job's going to be A LOT like TSA. Where on the surface, it looks very easy and not as burdensome, then you get into it and you're doing some heavy ass lifiting all day instead. But that doesn't make sense to me. If you have to go through some serious academy training and learning spanish, and fucking learning to shoot guns, how does that lead to huffing and puffing and lifiting bags or whatever.

I know that in like some videos CBP officers have to lift shit and search through things. Maybe that's all it is. It's not that you'll lift all day, but occasionally you'll lift a box or two. I goddamn hope so.

What can I say. I should have asked the cbp guys in the medical facility what the fuck they do. Is it that they are working hard or basically what I witness cbp officers doing which is standing around a lot and not really getting their hands dirty.


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