When I sat down with Dr. Houlihan, I learned that he hadn't planned to be a special agent. After the military, no one had given him the information needed to prepare his future out of the military. At first he turned down two because he didn't know that the agency paid for the out of state training. After a couple of years with a job he hated doing, he was finally able to become a special agent. The hardest part of his job was putting people away that he didn't truly feel belonged in prison or he didn't feel were necessarily guilty. One of the most dangerous things he had to deal with was having guns pointed in his face and having to get out of them not knowing what could happen. When I asked him how he dealt with the difficult challenges he faced and the more greusome assignments he simply said "By thinking". He continued to tell me that you had to use your smarts, what you learned and what you simply have always known to get yourself out of those situations and deal with the more rough cases that were hard on you emotionally. The most rewarding thing on his job was putting the bad guys away. When I had asked Dr. Houlihan about discrimination of women he said towards the beginning there was rarely any women agents. However, as time went on some women became his bosses. He had mentioned that he believes in every job opportunity there is discrimiantion against women in the work force. He said he didn't notice it too much possibly because he never looked at women as inferior. As our interview came to an end he had told me to prepare himself, he stayed healthy, did the basic training, and worked out at least twice a week. One of the best feelings he ever had was when he would train agents himself at the basic training camp, and they would be some of the top agents out of the training.
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