How good is the job market for EMT's?

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I am a long distance trucker. The job market for truckers has been excellent since I first got into trucking in 2012. If I picked out ten random trucking companies that have 100 trucks or more to apply to drive for them, probably all ten of them would want to hire me.

I am considering pursuing a career as an EMT. What is the job Market like for EMT's?

If you currently work as an EMT, and if you wanted to quit your job and re-locate to a different city in the same state (I know you are only certified to work in just one state, not all states.), do you think that most EMT companies would hire you?
 
The industry says there is a shortage. Is it possible this shortage exists because of low compensation and poor working conditions in places? Yes. But I don’t think EMTs are struggling to get hired in most places.
 
How much do you make an hour?
 
CCCSD said:
How much do you make an hour?
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Long distance truckers get paid by the mile, not by the hour. I make about 60 cents per mile. I average about $750/week in take home pay. Gross income is about $900 to $950 per week. But I live in rural Georgia with a low cost of living, where a dollar goes further than in most parts of the country.
 
Then you could survive on an EMTs wages…until you blowout your back.
 
MrCurious said:
I would lift with my legs, not my back.
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According to the CDC, around 20,000 EMS workers suffered back injuries annually during 2008-16. The stats don't say how many were lifting with their legs.
 
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According to the CDC, around 20,000 EMS workers suffered back injuries annually during 2008-16. The stats don't say how many were lifting with their legs.
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None of them were lifting with their legs.
 
I mean it's easy to say "I'll only lift with my legs not my back" until it's 3am and you're trying to lift a 300lb Pt from in between the toilet and wall, and then carry them down the hall, a flight of steps (or two) to reach the gurney...
 
Jim37F said:
I mean it's easy to say "I'll only lift with my legs not my back" until it's 3am and you're trying to lift a 300lb Pt from in between the toilet and wall, and then carry them down the hall, a flight of steps (or two) to reach the gurney...
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Don't you EMT's have multiple EMT's pick up one 300 lb. patient simultaneously? I think that you usually do. You would have at least one other EMT helping you pick up that 300 lb patient from in between a toilet and wall. I have seen EMT's before at fast food restaurants and other places. Most don't look like real big, heavily-muscled extremely strong guys.
 
MrCurious said:
Don't you EMT's have multiple EMT's pick up one 300 lb. patient simultaneously? I think that you usually do. You would have at least one other EMT helping you pick up that 300 lb patient from in between a toilet and wall. I have seen EMT's before at fast food restaurants and other places. Most don't look like real big, heavily-muscled extremely strong guys.
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Depends on the resources available for each call. Sometimes there's a few available, and other times it's just the crew on that ambulance
 
Depends. Sometimes you have a full Fire crew with 3 or 4 extra guys. Sometimes it's just you and a partner. Sometimes even with extra crew, you only have enough space to get one or two guys to pick someone out of such a tight space. Sometimes even with 4 crew carrying someone thru a maze of narrow hallways or twisty stairs it doesn't matter...

Sometimes you won't have a lift assist at a nursing home where you're bent over the bed to slide the patient into or out of the gurney and you're doing that 5x a shift...
 
MrCurious said:
Don't you EMT's have multiple EMT's pick up one 300 lb. patient simultaneously? I think that you usually do. You would have at least one other EMT helping you pick up that 300 lb patient from in between a toilet and wall. I have seen EMT's before at fast food restaurants and other places. Most don't look like real big, heavily-muscled extremely strong guys.
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Again, spoken by someone that doesn't know, what they don't know.
 
Distinct possibility, but it's not the first or the worst
 
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