What is the worst part of your job?

What is the worst part of your job?

Will Geddes (Close Protection Officer) gives expert video advice on: What's the difference between a close protection officer and a bodyguard?; Do I have the right to kill someone?; Am I bound by criminal law if I hurt someone? and more...

The one thing about this job is that people have this romantic notion of Kevin Costner and Whitney Houston, or Denzel Washington and Dakota Fanning. People have this impression that they are given from TV and from movies. Unfortunately, and the dark reality and the boring reality is that it is 90% boredom and 10% excitement. And the vast majority of your time is set about in planning, in preparation, in training and ensuring that you're not putting your principal at risk or putting him in to a situation which is going to further endanger him.So, it's all down to very careful thinking and planning to ensure that those problems don't materialize. But when they do, they're usually fast and furious. You have to be quick to react to them.