Many, if not most, law enforcement officers retire at a relatively young age. Some are fortunate enough to have padded their pensions and squirrelled away vast sums of money over the years to lead a life of leisure in retirement and not work…

Planning a vacation or trip can cause quite a bit of stress and for some of us, extreme anxiety. Packing, making arrangements for the care of a pet, airport lines, flying (or worse, flying with young children), jet lag, navigating a new or foreign place, are all things that can make the idea of travel less than exciting for some.

Many countries now have some form of terror alert system. The U.S. and U.K. are always raising and lowering them. Many wonder what this exactly means. Tragically, it doesn’t mean a thing. Terror-alert systems are deployed as a show of control over the threat of terrorism. The truth is, we have no control.

Get your own Arnold Schwarzenegger. Wondering how and where? Let me fill you in. There is a new website in town called Officerlist, which provides officers for all kinds of security needs. It’s a website for freelancing officers and those who want to hire them. And all this for free.

Ballpark Estimate: $200 to over $900 per day plus expenses.

You may think that hiring a bodyguard is a privilege restricted for the very rich and very famous. But in fact, today a variety of people of different means and backgrounds are contracting with such trained professionals to receive personal protection from a wide range of potential dangers.