You did WHAT??

[imurphy]

Was just thinking there. I'm sure most of us did something before joining EMS.

Before EMS, I was a computer technician / Systems Engineer. Did that for about 7 years working in large companies and took a nice pay cute to do thie job I love!

So what did you do?

 

[MedicPrincess]

Waitress
Military
School Bus Driver
Taxi Driver
AR Clerk
Personal Assistant
Secretary
Insurance Claims Processor (or should I say denier)
Cook in a nursing home
housekeeping in a hospital
floor tech in a hospital
cashier

 

[Sapphyre]

Driving Instructor
And I was nearly done with a BS in CIS

 

[KEVD18]

oh lets see, in the decade ive been working, ive been a:

painters helper
masons helper
electricians helper
cashier/master cart retrieval technician
deck hand/merchant mariner
bartender
chair car driver
absolutely god awful web site designer
automotive electronics installer/customizer
secretary/administratove assistant/executive assistant/office manager
full time cpr/first aid instructor
emt practical instructor
obviously an emt
handyman
shiftless layabout
malcontent
nay sayer
nerdoel(sp?)
dissenter
and finally
a concietious objecter to the expected action.

 

[Dobo]

12 years as an Engineering/Surveying Field Party Chief
2 years as a Motorcycle License Examiner
5 weeks at Wal-Mart when I was a teen... I couldn't take it and quit LOL

 

[FutureFlightMedic]

Vet Tech in an Animal ER, ER Tech in a human ER, CNA II, EMT-B, and now hopefully soon-to-be-PARAMEDIC!! (And yes, I do keep all the above certs current)

 

[Dobo]

Vet Tech in an Animal ER, ER Tech in a human ER, CNA II, EMT-B, and now hopefully soon-to-be-PARAMEDIC!! (And yes, I do keep all the above certs current)

A Vet Tech? I feel sorry for your patients when you take there temperature LOL J/K

 

[Hastings]

911 Paramedic was actually my first job.

Zero to Hero.

 

[Sasha]

I was a shift manager at Arbys for three years,
Then I worked at a travel company for like two months
Now I'm an EMT! Go Sasha!

 

[EMERG2011]

Presidential Campaign Intern
Junior Legal Analyst
Full Time Student (still am!)

 

[Dobo]

Oh yeah 1 year Architectural AutoCAD Technician and 6 months as a Land Surveying AutoCAD Technician

 

[flhtci01]

22 years in nuclear operations, licensed reactor operator or senior reactor operator for 16 of them. Ski patrol for 14 years.

 

[KempoEMT]

4 years Teaching Martial arts to Men, Women and Children. <----Current job
2 Summers Radio Control Car Technician/camp supervisor
Automotive Technician for Friends and their cars
Occasionaly Personal proctection

 

[Epi-do]

quality control lab tech
microbiology lab tech
various odd jobs as a teen

 

[emtbill]

Full time student all my life...I'm in my fourth year of a chemistry and biochemistry major right now.

That was kind of bland, but this one is pretty interesting: my last partner currently holds a PhD in English and was a former college professor having just made tenure. He had some sort of cardiac episode, I'm not sure what the etiology was, and he ended up coding. He claims that by the time the local medics got to him he was asystole, and after CPR, intubation, and a round of epi he regained a pulse and has made a full recovery. He has since quit teaching and is a full time student in the local medic program, and is on track to test registry medic next year.

 

[gicts]

warehouse work for 4ish years
1 summer- security at a 2 year college <_<
2 months- stocking grocery shelves at $4.10 an hour after taxes and dues
few months at a restaurant
started a leather business
continuing education :angry:


... oh yea and a ice hockey reff for 6 years

 

[phabib]

Brand rep at random events
Part time in a music shop
Packing boxes at a pick-line (literally hell on earth)
phone fundraising

 

[ffemt8978]

Security officer/Private Investigator
Animal Control Officer
Reserve Deputy
911 Dispatcher
Jailer
TSA Security Screener
Satellite TV Tech
Wireless Internet Tech

 

[Mongoose]

-Commercial Construction
-Residential Construction
-Public Works Construction
-Retail
-Criminal Justice Major
-Business Major
-Communications/Public Speech Major
-Sort-of Military (went 4F before reporting to OCS, long story)
-B.A. in Electronic Media/Film (5yrs, 4 major changes haha)
-Lead Editor for University post-production department post-college.
-Official office space/corporate-America-bureaucracy/desk jockey hater.
-EMT-B

 

[BossyCow]

• Waitress
• Retail Clerk
• Wholesale Electrical Supplies/Sales and Management
• Manager of an Art Gallery/Frame Shop
• Grocery Store Produce Manager
• Manager of Non-profit Food Co-op
• Ran a Lifeline (I've fallen and I can't get up) program
• Hospital Materials Management
• Hospital Printshop Manager
• Union Organizer
• Admin staff for Fire Department
• Office Mgr/Engineering Tech for Civil Engineering Firm

I'm sure I've forgotten some