Darkoverlift
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Okay, you have passed the NREMT the economy sucks, no ambulance services have openings, how or where else can we use our skills?
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Steam Engine
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1. Volunteer (Volunteer Fire Department, Volunteer Ambulance Service, Campus EMS, etc.)
2. Hospital, although your options may be limited due to a number of factors such as your location, the possibility of needing to learn additional skills not covered during EMT training, and a general lack of open positions.
3. Some Red Cross chapters provide stand-by first aid / EMS for large events, check out your local chapter for details.
4. Amusement Parks / Water Parks / Casinos / Industrial Plants
5. Summer Camps, although they often require experience before hiring, as well they should.
2. Hospital, although your options may be limited due to a number of factors such as your location, the possibility of needing to learn additional skills not covered during EMT training, and a general lack of open positions.
3. Some Red Cross chapters provide stand-by first aid / EMS for large events, check out your local chapter for details.
4. Amusement Parks / Water Parks / Casinos / Industrial Plants
5. Summer Camps, although they often require experience before hiring, as well they should.
VCEMT
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It's a waiting game, learn phlebotomy and take a stab at ER Tech positions.
EMTSTUDENT25
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As for theme parks, I know Universal has openings but only for paramedics. Last time I checked Disney was hiring lifeguards. Its not necessarily the first thing you would think to try but its something.
Steam Engine
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With the USFS is it strictly Wildland fire-fighting, or are there other routes?
WickedGood
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Good Luck with no experience trying to get in w/ the forest service......
but phlebotomy is a good skill to have. It's what I started out with. You might also want to look at Med assistant jobs. That's what I'm doing right now for a weight loss program.
but phlebotomy is a good skill to have. It's what I started out with. You might also want to look at Med assistant jobs. That's what I'm doing right now for a weight loss program.
No, it is rather quite easy. Forestry Tech, is an entry level GS-2 position.
Of the two posters above me one believes it's impossible to get hired and the other states the obvious about wildland fire suppresion. Instead of building upon my post to help the OP out, you two decided to make it seem as if it was not a viable option.
Of the two posters above me one believes it's impossible to get hired and the other states the obvious about wildland fire suppresion. Instead of building upon my post to help the OP out, you two decided to make it seem as if it was not a viable option.
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WickedGood
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Yeah I know it's entry level and openings are posting continuously on the USAjobs site, but it's not a shoe-in kind of job. There's a lot of people with a lot of experience who are applying for those jobs. Maybe if the OP has some FF experience or a redcard it would be different but that was not my understanding.
this is what im trying to do in NYC but its tough...even Hyperbaric
Ramel40
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EMT Volunteer squads in my area ask for 6 hours per week. The least is 20 per month about 10 miles away.
Is this the norm? 6 hours a week does not sound like a volunteer.
Is this the norm? 6 hours a week does not sound like a volunteer.
usafmedic45
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I wouldn't recommend that as an option unless the person really wants to be military for the sake of being military. Putting someone who is just looking for a job into more or less voluntary conscription is a very, very bad idea.
Good luck with that as an EMT-B. LOL
A lot of people on this forum probably spend more than six hours a week masturbating. For volunteer requirements, six hours is not a lot nor is 10 miles a long distance to go. One department I ran with for a while required one 12 hours shift per shift although the town was small enough that most of us responded from home to the station or scene.
What do you think is fair? It sounds like you're a typical spoiled young city dweller who doesn't like the idea of not getting exactly what he or she wants in exactly the way you want it. No offense taken, but that is how it sounds.
Ramel40
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It was a question. Please note, I only asked if this was the norm. I came from fire that only required weekly drills and an earnest effort.
Replies like yours is probably why members don't post and contribute more meaningful commentary. I have noticed the bickering on some posts, grandstanding, and the occasional I know more than anyone on here does. Believe it or not, I paid for my EMT out of pocket with the plan to only volunteer. My only intention was to help for nothing in return. I just wanted to know if other volunteer agencies mandated time. If I cant make 6 hours in a given week due to work, will I be kicked out?
No need to answer, but thanks anyway.
Replies like yours is probably why members don't post and contribute more meaningful commentary. I have noticed the bickering on some posts, grandstanding, and the occasional I know more than anyone on here does. Believe it or not, I paid for my EMT out of pocket with the plan to only volunteer. My only intention was to help for nothing in return. I just wanted to know if other volunteer agencies mandated time. If I cant make 6 hours in a given week due to work, will I be kicked out?
No need to answer, but thanks anyway.
usafmedic45
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Good for you. Would you like a cookie?
No, it's why newbies learn to think before posting. If you'll notice we have quite the active forum here despite your perception that somehow by not blowing smoke, sunshine and rainbows up your preferred orifice that I am quashing meaningful discussion nor does it mean that I think I know more than you. It simply means that I am tired of the same inane questions being asked over and over again. Seriously, it's a good thing this forum doesn't have a clock tower otherwise one more thread on "Why can't I find a job with my McEMT certification in Southern California? HELP ME!!!!!" would send me scurrying to the to with a steamer trunk full of ammo and scope-equipped hunting rifles.
Yeah and the fire service tends to not have a problem with people using them as a stepping stone to something else. EMS has that problem in areas outside of New Jersey where fire and EMS (especially at the volunteer level) are one and the same.
I doubt it. You could always ask the department directly which is an option a lot of EMS providers, especially new folks tend to not take despite the fact that it's often the quickest and certainly the most accurate.
usafmedic45
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Seriously...at the BLS level anywhere that most young folks are willing to live is going to be so oversaturated because of the ease at which anyone but a pithed Down's patient could pass the NREMT exam that moving isn't going to be that viable an option, especially when you're moving for a job that will not pay all that well.
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no IFT companies local?
ours seems to be hiring all the time, lots of turnover
ours seems to be hiring all the time, lots of turnover