Is EMS your only job/What did you do before EMS?

[usafmedic45]

LMAO. Nice. Duly noted.

 

[IRIDEZX6R]

Meat guy at Vons, Checker at Vons, Movie Theatre Customer Service, Ranch Hand, Construction, Mechanic with a pit crew for NHRA stuff, Mustang performance mechanic, Audio Engineer, Rock Climbing instructor, Guitar teacher, Video Tech/Videographer *at concerts, the video guy running around on stage*, Computer Repair shop/tech, Vinyl Fencing Contractor, Heavy equipment mechanic, a crappy emt job, and a better emt job.... I have a pretty huge resume for being 19.

 

[usafmedic45]

-Echocardiographer
-Respiratory Therapist
-Phlebotomist
-Injury Prevention Researcher
-EMT
-EMT-Intermediate
-Dispatcher
-Laboratory Specimen Processor
-Sleep Research Lab Technician
-Conference Speaker
-Flight Respiratory Therapist
-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Specialist
-Funeral Director's Assistant
-Deputy Coroner
-Industrial Laboratory Technician
-Sports Radio Producer
-"Porcine Emasculation Technician"
-Waiter/bartender

I think that's most of the ones I have had.

 

[dixie_flatline]

-Echocardiographer
-Respiratory Therapist
-Phlebotomist
-Injury Prevention Researcher
-EMT
-EMT-Intermediate
-Dispatcher
-Laboratory Specimen Processor
-Sleep Research Lab Technician
-Conference Speaker
-Flight Respiratory Therapist
-Pulmonary Rehabilitation Specialist
-Funeral Director's Assistant
-Deputy Coroner
-Industrial Laboratory Technician
-Sports Radio Producer
-"Porcine Emasculation Technician"
-Waiter/bartender

I think that's most of the ones I have had.

Fine, this sounds like a fun game...

---High School---
Boy Scout Camp - Kitchen Grunt
Burger King
School District IT Tech
---College---
Comic Book Store
Disney Character
Boy Scout Camp - Lifeguard/Boating Instructor/Waterfront Director
Coffee Shop ("Barista")
Web Dev for University's Career Services
Summer Intern for a large company
Bartender
---Graduation---
Full-time work for said large company
Abercrombie & Fitch (shut up stop judging me. i didn't make enough right out of college to really live in San Diego. started out as a seasonal employee but they kept me on for another year and a half until I moved back east)
EMT/FF (volunteer)

Those are all of my jobs I think (at least all the ones I've paid taxes for h34r.

I also co-owned a tiny multimedia production company during college which never really turned a profit, which somehow acquired a local screen-printing business that did. I only did work as an editor though, and as an owner I was not paid :glare:

 

[IRIDEZX6R]

Oh ya.. and I'm a pimp on the side... I pass out my card to all those questionable patients and offer them jobs... You can call me a "labor consultant" if you like

 

[abckidsmom]

Fine, this sounds like a fun game...

---High School---
Boy Scout Camp - Kitchen Grunt
Burger King
School District IT Tech
---College---
Comic Book Store
Disney Character
Boy Scout Camp - Lifeguard/Boating Instructor/Waterfront Director
Coffee Shop ("Barista")
Web Dev for University's Career Services
Summer Intern for a large company
Bartender
---Graduation---
Full-time work for said large company
Abercrombie & Fitch (shut up stop judging me)
EMT/FF (volunteer)

Those are all of my jobs I think (at least all the ones I've paid taxes for h34r.

I also co-owned a tiny multimedia production company during college which never really turned a profit, which somehow acquired a local screen-printing business that did. I only did work as an editor though, and as an owner I was not paid :glare:

I think my list is short:

Jewelry Store cleaning
Food Lion cashier
Little Bitty redneck ambulance service EMT
Medium sized yuppie ambulance service EMT
Tech on Medsurg floor
Tech in STICU
City Medic
STICU RN
Paramedic Instructor
City Dispatcher
Cardiac RN
Part time County Medic


Longer than I thought.

 

[usafmedic45]

Longer than I thought.

That's what she said.

 

[Sasha]

That's what she said.

Not to you.

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[abckidsmom]

Not to you.

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Snicker.

 

[usalsfyre]

Hmmm

Golf course day laborer
Golf cart mechanic
Tree farm laborer
Firemedic
Flight medic
Private 911 medic
ED Tech
IFT medic

More to come, probably...

 

[AlphaButch]

Past
Restaurant Manager
Military Service

Still currently
Parent
Entrepreneur
Instructor for LEO/SAR/Security
Medic/EMS Director
Perpetual Student

 

[dstevens58]

I can easily remove the testicles from a squealing animal is just something to keep in mind if one finds themselves in a debate with me.

Note to self.......avoid Indiana. :rofl:

 

[dstevens58]

--High School--

grocery checker/bagger

--Military--
Navy Hospital Corpsman
Medical supply warehouse
Lab Technician
Independent Duty Corpsman

--Civilian--
Clerk at 7-11
PD/FD Dispatcher
PD Records Clerk
PD Administrative Clerk
Medical Transcriptionist
PD Computer Help Desk
...then retired, moved to Ohio

--Continued--
School system IT Tech
Unemployed (although in Medic School)

Oh yes, volunteer EMS for local Volunteer Fire Department

 

[Joe]

alright lets see...

Hay bucker at a feed store
finish painter
fence builder
cnc machine opperator
welder (mig, tig, arc)
question answerer for ChaCha
sales associate at big 5
equipment opperator at a cemetery
foreman at a cemetery
loss prevention agent

notice how theres no emt jobs in there... yea, welcome to california

 

[Altered Mental Status]

High school/College:
Retail
Crew Chief at an arcade/Nathan's restaurant
Annoying marketing Census-taker in the mall
Sr. Sales Associate for an obscure, upscale cosmetics company that caters to the entertainment industry.

Navy:
Radioman
(Computers, communications equipment these days)
Also held some Yeoman positions including Legal Yeoman and Medical Operations and intelligence Yeoman (anyone who knew how to use Windows NT in those days was an effing genius)

Post-Navy:
Partner & Fashion Consultant at a high-end chain clothing retailer
Systems Analyst/NT Admin for a Brokerage firm on Wall Street
Sysop
Office manager
Executive-level Assistant
Writer (some paid pieces, mostly unpaid and spent time working on The Great American Novel that never materialized)
Entrepreneur/Business Owner

It's a cutthroat world out there in the private sector. EMS makes me happy.

 

[Handsome Robb]

Worked as a runner at the local Shakespear Festival
Supermarket as a bag boy
Dad's jewelry store doing inventory and cleaning
Whole Foods making pizza
Sushi restaurant as a waiter
The annoying guy who knocks on your door and begs you to let him clean the carpet in one room for you while trying to sell a ridiculously expensive vacuum
Sub-contractor through Union Pacific on the rail repair crew. I was the guy standing around with a stop sign all day, idk if I get spit at more now as an EMT or then...
Beach Lifeguard
Ski Patrol

 

[18G]

I have only worked in the emergency services since I was 18... EMT, Firefighter, Police Dispatcher, and Paramedic. Except for a few months when I was 17, I worked at Hardees..

 

[Aprz]

I worked as a lab tech assistant for about half a year.
Professional ice cream scooper and cashier for two years.
Chicken wing place for about a year and a half.
Finished EMT about age 20 1/2 years old, but didn't get a job until just about a month ago (I'm 22).

 

[katgrl2003]

volunteered at a children's museum (age 12)
hired at said children's museum
Walgreen's
private service ambulance
AHA CPR instructor
smaller private service ambulance
911 job

Wow... for almost 15 years, that's not as much as I thought.

 

[medicsb]

Mowed lawns
gas station attendent (I actually really liked this job, but it was a family owned station)
data entry (worst job ever)
copy shop person or whatever
produced some records for some bands
helped run a film festival
food delivery (was doing this when I became an emt)

private ift emt
volunteer emt
emt for a bls fire company ambulance
emt then medic for another fire company ALS ambulance
medic for hospital based ALS
medic for hospital based critical care service
paramedic skills instructor

now medical student