LYNN – Sometimes you have someone to watch over you, like it or not.Whether they are hired to catch a cheating spouse in the act or uncover a criminal scandal, private investigators may secretly be gathering evidence and documenting your every move.James Baker, one of Lynn’s licensed private investigators, said he spends his days chasing down jilted lovers, hoping to capture a moment of passion on camera for proof of their alleged affairs.”You never know when you’re going to get a call for a new case. The cell just goes off and you start moving,” he said. “I got a call today at 6 a.m. and we were off and running right after.”Despite the hectic pace and sometimes dangerous situations, Baker said his job isn’t as glamorous as it is portrayed to be in movies.”We move around a lot,” he quipped. “We aren’t sitting around in our cars for hours drinking coffee with binoculars and our hats pulled down low. We are always on the go.”Baker, a former police officer in Holyoke, said he decided to quit the force after he met his wife and enter the field of investigation.”She was afraid that I would get hurt, so the idea of being an investigator came to me and I put my knowledge of criminal justice to work,” he said.In addition to being a private investigator for the past six years, Baker also works as a constable for Lynn Constables, and is licensed to investigate both criminal and civil cases.”I have a right to collect data, but not to trespass,” he said. “We are basically put under an umbrella by the state police so we don’t need a warrant to get information.”Training for detective work can be obtained from an apprentice-like position, according to Baker, who said most receive certification from a professional organization to determine competency.With a staff consisting of former police officers and detectives, Baker said his investigators know how to get the answers his clients are looking for.”One assumes that if we are contacted, the marriage isn’t very happy to begin with,” he said. “But we are asked for proof, not our opinions or advice.”Pacing back and forth in his living room on Fenton Street, Baker prepared to make a phone call to a woman in the Boston area who he was trying to track down.Disguising his voice, and using a phone number that can’t be traced, Baker called the individual and was told she was not in at the moment. Discouraged, Baker hung up the phone and shrugged his shoulders.”You never know if the person that answered the phone was lying, or if it is the person you’re looking for,” he said. “However, the suspected lovers could have had a fight and ended their relationship, or she could be just at the grocery store. Who knows?”Grabbing equipment and surveillance supplies, Baker and his assistant scramble to get out of their office and hit the road in pursuit of the individual in question.”Jealousy is really a terrible situation,” he said. “It’s very possible that what we are trying to track down doesn’t exist at all, and that none of it is real in the first place. We need to basically find the people in an intimate situation, and that’s sometimes difficult to do.”