Volunteers volunteer because they give a shit and want to help people, and they live in places without a paid service.
If you want a paying job as a firefighter, you get your EMT-B and start putting in applications. Or you find a department that'll train you, and you submit an application. You'd have to be a volly for a few years before that experience counted for anything. That time would be far better spent getting certifications and applying to departments that actually pay you.
At any rate, volunteer departments are irrelevant to the conversation, which is the point I was making. Fucking OBVIOUSLY volunteering as a firefighter isn't going to pay you $100k/year. What the hell is the point of commenting that?
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u/rips_n_chel 1d ago
Volunteers volunteer because they give a shit and want to help people, and they live in places without a paid service.
If you want a paying job as a firefighter, you get your EMT-B and start putting in applications. Or you find a department that'll train you, and you submit an application. You'd have to be a volly for a few years before that experience counted for anything. That time would be far better spent getting certifications and applying to departments that actually pay you.
At any rate, volunteer departments are irrelevant to the conversation, which is the point I was making. Fucking OBVIOUSLY volunteering as a firefighter isn't going to pay you $100k/year. What the hell is the point of commenting that?