TransportJockey
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the 100% directionless thread
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We did fireworks here last Saturday. No calls, didn't have to leave the station since they were 1/2 a block away. Winning.
NysEms2117
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The moment when your neighbor decides to become jason pierre paul and shoot off 2 fingers attached to a firework... knocks on my door...well kicks on my door... Mayne i wasn't even working tonight and i'll still run more calls then some of you folks..
VentMonkey
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Damn, almost a no-no. Kershaw is still a beast.
CALEMT
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A non sub-par baseball team would've thrown a no-no...
VentMonkey
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Them there's some fancy words from a non-Angelino-Angelino rootin' fan of such subpar baseball.
CALEMT
The Other Guy/ Paramaybe?
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I retort... takes one to know one.
RocketMedic
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First, the air conditioning in the cab died around 1300. Truck swap after call. Then, the reserve trucks transmission died in Conroe. Tow truck an hour later. Then the thing won't restart after offload so it's parked weird. Can't wait for our new Frazier
MonkeyArrow
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Yesterday was a glorious ED shift. We had 4 patients total throughout the morning and kept about 15 rooms empty throughout the day, plus were grossly overstaffed. Went outside with half of the staff and watched an hour of the race. Having road closures due to a road race helped, but EMS also started taking patients to the other hospital. Barely put on a pair of gloves yesterday.
VentMonkey
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1 call, not even mine, and off on time. Take that, @StCEMT!
It's ok, I got a medic partner again, so life has been good.
Jim37F
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Had 3 "dry runs" in a row last night. First was a traffic collision with reported ejection. It was in a neighboring district, we don't normally get too many calls in that area from our station, but not unheard of either, and dispatch didn't say anything about multiple units, so we're heading over thinking we are the only ambulance responding....and find out we are the second unit on scene, first one already loaded and took off for the trauma center right after we got on scene, only other passengers on scene had minor cuts and scrapes and none wanted to go to the hospital, so cancel and return...an hour or so later get dispatched to a gunshot wound. Stage for Sheriff, maybe only a couple minutes later get on scene and find out that patient was transported private auto before we got there, so we clear, and as we're pulling out, fire is taking off for a motorcycle down on the freeway in our district.....we take the call, get onscene to find a fender bender between motorcycle and car, no injury, no one wants to go....so we cancel and clear and dispatch acknowledges "Copy, third cancel in a row, return" (though overnight they woke us up for a move up, got into the rig and went on air only to be told to cancel, later get another move up, get about a block away and a unit in that district goes available so we cancel that moveup, finally 3 am moveup to a different district get there, spend half an hour napping on the recliners before dispatch calls us on the station phone "Hey, my cancellation crew, you guys can return".....and finally catch a 0630 call for an injury that happened at midnight (and that's not counting the half dozen or so calls during the day before all this, so all of y'all "I saw one patient/didn't put on a pair of gloves yesterday" can shove it while I go take a damn nap lol)
VentMonkey
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SandpitMedic
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Have you guys ever seen the levelzero page on FB!?
Man I think I just looked at 800 pictures... each one a hilarious meme about being burned out.
Man I think I just looked at 800 pictures... each one a hilarious meme about being burned out.
DesertMedic66
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Yep. We have probably a dozen guys at my work who follow the page.
I would say no IFT's, buuuuuut yours are probably more interesting than my 911's anyway.
Do you do scene calls and the nurse does IFT?
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There are a number of certifying bodies that can you can get certified as a personal trainer. The NASM is one of them. Aside from the cost of the certification exam, it might not be a bad idea to get certified through a couple different bodies as gyms sometimes look for/recognize certificates from one organization vs another. This may help your job prospects. Look through the job ads for the gyms in your area as those should have the preferred cert listed.
This is very true. A BS in Kinesiology or Sports Med (Athletic Tranining) will both open some doors and close some too. High-end personal trainers are going to have a very extensive knowledge of nutrition that's sports tweaked, biomechanics, and a bunch more. I've been out of that game for about 20 years but I know the basics still and it wouldn't be that difficult to catch back up to current theory and practice. Give me someone that's got an athlete's drive to do stuff and I can do a lot with them.
An Associate's Degree will be helpful but won't give you as complete an education as a Bachelors in Kines will do. Most of the nursing prereqs will be prereqs for a Kines Bachelor's program.
Also true. Higher-end career trainers will very much tailor their education for what they want to do as a trainer. As you get more and more specific, the number of available jobs decrease and you must be able to perform at that higher level (generate results!) so it will get much more competitive for those jobs. Also, as you specialize, the "lower end" gym jobs will be those that you become highly overqualified for and they'll not hire you because of that. Their fear is that you'll leave when a "better" job shows up.
"Top level" trainers at a public gym (or even a private chain) will be the ones that generate the most income for the gym. They're going to be good at what they do and they'll be very personable, but ultimately they'll be money-makers for the gym. That means you'll have lots of clients and few opportunities to work out because your schedule will be packed with paying clients. FYI: I have never worked as a personal trainer but I'm not unaware of the business side of things. I may not know the whole back story with some gyms, but this is the economics of personal training at gyms.