DEA (Drug Enforcement Administration)

Jason Harvey5-7-2014Hour: 4

Career Technology/ Foundations

Introduction• “Big thinking precedes great achievement.”- Wilferd A.

Paterson.• I do not like the impact that drugs have had on people that I

know and people I have just seen or heard about. The drugs can mess up your whole life or kill you just from trying it one time. If I can keep the drugs away from someone, that'll help them stay clean, and could save someone's life.

• In order to get a better understanding of my chosen career field as a DEA Agent, I will be researching (nature of work, working conditions, training, job outlook, earnings, and a back up career)

Nature of Work (Responsibilities)

Investigate crimes Collect and secure evidence from crime

scenes Conduct interviews with suspects and

witnesses Obtain warrants and arrest suspects Prepare cases and testify in court

Working Condition

• Physical: needs patience, courageous, and physically fit

• Outdoors: in the field making arrests• Indoors: testifying in court, doing paperwork• Hours: can constantly be called in, usually 8

hour shifts• Conditions: Stressful, Potential of bodily harm,

physically demanding

Training, Qualifications, Advancement (Education)

• Education: GED or gradated from high school and graduate of their agency’s training academy

• Graduate from high school then go to college• Where I am going: The University of Toledo for

criminal justice• High school classes I took: Business law, Law

Enforcement (East Detroit High School), Criminal Justice (Pankow center)

Job Outlook

• Employment rate: 5% rising from 2012-2022• Where I want to find this opening: Detroit ,

MI• Competitive?: The better degree, the higher

position• Destination: Somewhere along the Mexican

boarder or Detroit Michigan

Earnings

• Median Earnings: (depends on the department) $56,980 per year $27.40 per hour

• Life Goal #1: Sky Diving, costs $249.99 (+)• Life Goal #2: Own a cottage on a lake, costs

$34,900 (+)• Life Goal #3: Go to the super bowl, costs

$1,767(+)

Back up career- lawyer

• Responsibility- Interpret laws, rulings, and regulations for individuals and businesses

• Degree- have a law degree and pass state BAR exam

• Outlook- 10% rise, any court with defendants and prosecutors needs a lawyers

• Median earnings- $113,530 per year $54.58 per hour

Conclusion

After researching this field, I would still like to be a DEA agent. One thing I really am looking forward to is getting the drugs off the streets. The one thing I am not going to enjoy that much is testifying in court with the lawyers questioning me. Over all I have learned that I need to get a good education and be dedicated to get in that field. I have also learned that a back up plan is always good to have.

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