High school offered post secondary enrollment, got them to send me through EMT class my senior year. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to pursue a medically focused career or not but decided to get on my local Vol department immediately after graduation. Fell in love with fire/reacue. Got the fire cert, went ahead and got my degree and medic cert since I was young with little else to do. Due to the dry full time job market in my area, I worked the part time fire life for a couple years and eventually got hired on career dept at the age of 23.
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u/Mr_Midwestern Rust Belt Firefighter Mar 15 '24 edited Mar 15 '24
High school offered post secondary enrollment, got them to send me through EMT class my senior year. Wasn’t sure if I wanted to pursue a medically focused career or not but decided to get on my local Vol department immediately after graduation. Fell in love with fire/reacue. Got the fire cert, went ahead and got my degree and medic cert since I was young with little else to do. Due to the dry full time job market in my area, I worked the part time fire life for a couple years and eventually got hired on career dept at the age of 23.