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This could end up in EMS employment or directionless because of its random nature, but I just decided to make its own thread because it came out of nowhere.

So, I'm on my way to my other job as a courier, going through downtown Reno on a one way street. I was traveling the speed limit, and suddenly a car in the lane to my right decides he is going to make a shot in front of me without signaling or looking in his blind spot to get a parking spot on the left side of the street (parking on both sides because its one way).

So the guy brakes and merges over in front of me WAY too fast for me to dodge it, and my front passenger hits his driver door and scrapes and dents all that up. We both pull over into the spots on the left to exchange information.

As we're doing that, the guy admits fault, and I'm happy to learn there's no injuries to his family. Then I check out my car and learn that mine has minimal scrapes, but the best part was yet to come.

When writing down his information, I get a phone call from the local EMS agency that I've been trying to get a job with, asking me to come in for an interview next week. I had just drank coffee with a bunch of sugar, then I was jumpy because of the adrenaline from the accident, and after the call, I felt like bouncing off walls. To put it lightly, I was pretty jazzed!!! Now all I have to do is nail the interview! :D
 
Uh... Yay!?

Good luck. Lay off the caffeine. Lol
 
congrats!

file a claim on the other driver's policy or else you might be dropped from your insurance.

hope you get the job!

you prolly dont want to mention this incident.
 
VA Transport EMT said:
congrats!

file a claim on the other driver's policy or else you might be dropped from your insurance.

hope you get the job!

you prolly dont want to mention this incident.
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Yea I won't mention it, but the entire accident was his fault, he merged without signaling or checking blind spot, and he did it rapidly. I already filed my claim, and took pics and everything. The good thing is that this won't go on my MVR because there is no police report. No injuries means police won't take a report if you both choose not to.

I have a perfect driving record, and when companies check your record it only has DMV history. Insurance companies don't report to the DMV, thankfully. Perfect record remains:P
 
Good luck on your interview. The members of the panel are pretty cool and laid back. You trying for Per Diem or Full Time?

Shouldn't matter about the accident since it wasn't your fault. People in this city can't drive. Almost got creamed by a car going the wrong way down Center St the other night, glad my partner cleared right for me even though it was a one-way otherwise it wouldn't have been pretty.

Thanks for not calling 911 and making us write a bunch of RMAs ;)
 
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As much as I'd like to work full time as an EMT-I, the position I believe is only a VST per-diem (I'm sort of unsure I was so pumped with adrenaline I forgot if it was VST or MedExpress Transport). It's basically my foot-in-the-door position, because I don't have any other medical work experience other than my EMT classes. I'm probably going to apply for the medic program starting in fall, and hopefully before then I'll have worked up the ladder a little to be working full time as an I. I take the written NR for AEMT the day after my interview, so if they hire me as a VST maybe I can say "by the way..."
 
Good way to get your foot in the door, learn the layout of the trucks and to meet people. They generally hire from within for field spots first, then start looking outside the company.

I won't confirm or deny that I work or have worked there.
 
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