Summer Job as a Rent a Cop, Part 2
While I was in school I took a summer job for a security company. They hired me to be a security guard for a university that had three campuses. Over the summer they had me work all the different shifts on all three campuses filling in for people on vacation. One of the campuses had trouble filling a midnight to 8:00AM shift so that is where I worked most of the time. The students were gone for the summer. From midnight to 8:00AM besides me I assumed there wasn't anybody on campus beside the shift superviser. From what I could tell the supervisor sat in the office, drank coffee and read the newspaper. From time to time he'd check in with me on the radio. My time was divided between sitting in a guard house at the school's main entrance, doing walking patrols through some of the buildings and driving around campus in a patrol car. The hardest part of the job was dealing with the boredom and getting use to the crazy hours. While I was in the guard house I