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Ya I'll go into Verizon today when I get off. Hope they don't jerk me around too much

Ugh broke the screen on my phone at work. 2 months away from the 2 year mark...

Where do you plan on going CALEMT?

I can understand if it was a recent termination, and depending on what exactly you got fired for. But with time between a firing and a good reference for your current position I'd think you'd be ok. But I've been wrong before, but I know friends that have been terminated in the past and still...

I'm curious why you would be DQ'd? Because you got fired or is it because of the reason you got fired? If a couple years passed and have steady employment since I would think you would be ok, or am I being naive?

I like the red. I also like the idea of a county stripe down the side would make it pop.

Wow sounds like an awesome place

Damn 24/72?? That's legit! Where do they do 911?

So living on let's say $45k a year is possible in the Raleigh area? Or Charleston? I'm a single guy with no debt and very little overhead, and I looked at these areas for a possible relocation. But it just seemed to me that mid 40 salary wasn't enough (and by living I mean comfortable, not...

Hmm back 10 years ago when I worked for McCormick they had paramedic ambulances with non safety medics. They paid them like $10/hr and treated em worse than the probies. I used to chat it up with them at Gardena memorial hospital. I think they had like 2 ALS ambulances and 2 BLS ambulances...

Guess they ran out of money for their A/O program. Probably better off anyway, they used to treat their non-safety medics terriblely.

Compton fire doesn't transport anymore?

How's the relationship between private providers and Clark County and LVFR? Are the municipalities still trying to take over all of the transports in their respective areas?

Ventura County has 3 ambulance providers that provide 911 and IFT services. AMR, Gold Coast (Oxnard), and Lifeline Ambulance (Ojai). While most ambulances are 24s out of a station there is a county wide move up plan so you will most likely be moving all over the county covering and running calls.

+ 1 to what CALEMT said. An EMT doesnt vary a whole lot state to state (as far as protocols / pay / etc). Of course there are outliers but the majority of jobs are fairly similar. I'd stay and get your medic (if your planning on staying in EMS for a few years) then figure out where to go.

Lived in 505, 805, 760, 831, and 909 area codes. Still moving too

@VentMonkey I can agree with pretty much all that.

I also would argue that the school does have something to do with the quality of student they put out. Maybe not as much as the internal drive of the student. In either case that's a topic for another thread.

Sure.... but if one costs 15k or more (not sure what NCTI is up to now) and the other is 5k or less and gets you college credits..... Not to mention I've heard of NCTI students waiting 6 months or more for an internship. Anyway OP, good luck with whichever you end up at.

Are you able to go PT? After all it's less than a year. I've just known several people that have gone to NCTI and I've never heard anything good from it.