Recent content by ash

Thanks for reminding me that the money winds up being pretty much the same no matter where you live. I find it's mostly the entry-level code-monkey sorts of programming jobs that are being outsourced. If I somehow gained 2-3 years of job experience being a programmer, I could get a job as a...

WEMT is a wilderness EMT. It's basically EMT-B plus a few extra bits about retreiving people from the middle of the woods instead of just driving them to a nice urban hospital. EMT-B is a subset of WEMT training.

No, I'm not getting into this for the money. If I wanted a lot of money, I would have gotten a job out in California, programming, or gone to business school or something. But I do need to pay rent, and buy food, and stuff like that. I'm in Chicago, and from the Internet searching I did...

I'm thinking of getting WEMT-certified through NOLS, which would include EMT-B certification. However, what would I do after that? Can I work with just EMT-B certification, or do I have to enroll in a program to get EMT-P? Do they have such programs where you work as you go along? I guess I'm...