Pros
you make your own schedule
Cons
*harassment about when a job will be completed, even though its not due yet *no regard for contracts- if you sign up to work in a 100 mile radius, expect to be forced to double that. * if there is no work in the area, you dont get paid unless you take a tdy assignment else where, away from family. * no family time with job as you have to talk to sources in person who dont get home till after 5pm, if your lucky. * you get chewed out because people dont want to answer their phones to schedule the interviews. * review is constantly reopening you for stuff that should be common sense/ simple to understand stuff. for example, "subject makes a short commute from state a to state b" review wants to know how why. * company wants to confront on issues that shouldnt be confronted on case papers, i.e. stuff that happened over 10 or 7 years ago. *you get called in the middle of the night to fix a case because review works at night. *wear and tear on your own vehicle. already killed one car because of this job, and the .56 reimbursement...yea you turn in a travel report and it gets scrutinized and if you are a mile over, its rejected. * not allowed to arm yourself with ANYTHING when doing residential coverage, meaning you are walking around random neighborhoods, knocking on random doors asking strangers if they know this person. ive been grabbed once and had to get stitches. did my team lead care? NO, all he said was, well get back out there and be careful, this HAS to get done.