You did WHAT??

[imurphy]

flhtci01, 22 years in nuclear operations? I'm gonna stand WELL away from you!

 

[apagea99]

Ummm...lots of stuff lol

-Stock clerk/cashier
-Heavy equipment operator
-cashier at AM/PM
-Final assembly tech for a guitar manufacturer
-Heavy equipment operator again
-Unemployed lol
-and then a load of stuff for my current company: wood shop tech, paint tech, shipping/receiving, QC, and now purchasing (as well as half of those other jobs thrown on top)

 

[Dobo]

How many of you got into EMS right out of school, I feel like everyone on here has been in a different profession before they became EMTs.

 

[NomadicMedic]

I worked in Radio Broadcasting as a ProgramDirector for about the last 20 years. Now, with iPods, satellite radio and Pandora, radio is dying a rapid death.

Time for something new.

I worked as an EMT in the late 80's. Now I'm back. Medic school is next.

 

[EMTWintz]

Lets see: Waitress several different places, fuel deck operator (Truck Stop) did that bout 7years.
Professional Mom for 5, Medical Assistant in dr office, Lab Tech, Life Insurance examiner(current profession). I've been volly EMT for 5years.

 

[Norcaldude360]

Lets see here
Dairy Farmer-for all 21 years of my life, it'll never escape me haha
Welder
Truck Driver
Truck Engine and Heavy Duty Diesel Technican- My main job for right now
and a whole bunch of little side jobs i do.

 

[Zeke]

How many of you got into EMS right out of school, I feel like everyone on here has been in a different profession before they became EMTs.

I was enrolled in Basic class at 16....I never actually worked for pay in ems due to age limits. I'll make it back sometime.

 

[JELM99]

Produce manager/Stocker/Cashier(all at same place)
Custodian at a Lowe's Home Improvement office
Sandwich artist(subway)
ER Tech
My first day on a 9-1-1 service is the 15th.

 

[phabib]

How many of you got into EMS right out of school, I feel like everyone on here has been in a different profession before they became EMTs.

Well my jobs were all during school when I was studying other things. Took me a little while to decide on EMS. I never had another career per-say.

 

[jochi1543]

I worked in a toxicology research lab. The field part of the job killed me.

 

[marineman]

I've been driving truck for a few years now. Before that I was a job hopper for whatever paid the most at the time but I worked as an auto mechanic for a while, worked in a foundry for a couple days (Neenah Foundry go look at your sewer covers). I worked in a plant that made plastic pallets for a while. Worked in the billing office of an ambulance service while I was in high school.

And Dobo, I was a certified first responder before I graduated high school but just became an EMT last year (22) so it depends how you look at it.

 

[exodus]

Uhm, I worked at a non-profite website as a programmer (geni.org), then at mesa college as a web programmer, then to a place called "heads on fire" as a tech person. All non-paid internships... I worked at Target though... That sucks worse than anything! Stupid Food service.

 

[mycrofft]

Oy, let's see, pursuits that predominated my life...

OK, deep breath:
Community volunteer work as a teen (ran a serious candidate for MAyor, wrote and laid out by hand an alternative press/newsletter, worked up to 32 hrs a week on a telephone "hotline").

Three months at McDonalds.
One summer as dock hand/first aider and ad hoc LE at 7,000 ft (Green Valley Lake, CA).
One year prior to that working warehouse take out and trucking for a pet and feed store in LA county.
Gypo'ed tire casings (went around lying to get them for free ostensibly for my use, when they were actually given to my undercounter employer who traded them in to a recapper)...three weeks.
TV rental delivery and repo...one night.
Packer shipper and inventory for E-Z Lok Threded Inserts (sub of TCI Aluminum), over 1 year.
USAF (active: fire protection specialist as handlineman, dispatcher, and rescue crew/driver/crewchief, then Guard as Medtech and later nrse specializing in field support, readiness and mobility).
EMT in civilian ambulances doing transfers, wheelchair vans, true emergencies, and sometimes their sideline as limousine chauffer (twice) and coroner/funeral home pickups (quite a few).
RN in an ER (six months), "doc on a box" (one year or so), and jails (19 and a half years now). Fit in two and a half years as a case manage for indigent county pt's.

 

[exodus]

Wow, what didn't you do?!

 

[EMTinNEPA]

Host at a family restaurant
Dishwasher at Golf Club
McDonald's
Customer service for a credit reporting agency
Sold antiques on eBay
Guitar teacher

 

[bstone]

6 years as computer system/network engineer.
B.S. in Biology
future physician

 

[JonTullos]

Radio for seven years. I've done various on-air shifts and was music director and assistant program director at the stations I've worked at.

Host at the world's first (and to my knowledge only) Hard Rock Beach Club in Choctaw, MS.

Cell phone customer service rep. It wasn't bad but I quit when I moved back to Mississippi (lived in Fort Wayne, IN at the time).

Rent to own account manager. I would not wish this on my worst enemy; this is the only job I ever walked out on because my manager told me she'd fire me if I called CPS on a neglectful family. BTW, don't ever, EVER rent to own. You'll pay 99.9% interest (seriously).

DirecTV tech dispatcher/CSR. It actually wasn't bad but the pay was crap (even worse than what people say EMS pay is).

Rental car management trainee. Through this job, I've discovered that I'm not a salesman but I've also reinforced to myself that I will do anything within my power to help people. Made the decision to pursue EMS easy.

Come on, summer, come on!

Jonathan

 

[dslprod]

Relay Operator
Wal Mart (layaway associate)
Help Desk dispatcher
Vollied for p.d
AMR (billing dept)

 

[JonTullos]

Oh, I left one off: 911 dispatcher/telecommunicator. I loved it but I couldn't get on full time. Also increased my interest in EMS and emergency service in general.

 

[NomadicMedic]

Another former radio guy! Be glad you got out. It's nothing but voice tracking these days.