Was just talking with a guy about this earlier. My wife is a third year medical student. We had to move to a other city for rotations and I took a very short PT job installing conveyer belts at a factory. Four 10 hour days from a Fri to a Monday. Did it suck? Yup! But it would have paid for a...
I agree w/flight medic. I'm working at a telecom place right now while finishing my EMT-P.
Is it what I "want" to do? Not really.
Is it a job that I'm grateful for? Most definitely!
Chin up, man. It will improve.
We'd just cleared from a standby for a drug raid and were headed back to station.
FD: "***** County 5, your headlights are off."
Med Unit: "Copy. Thank you, Truck 5."
Partner (off air): "Tell 'em we're incognito."