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Lifeguards For Life

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Knowing what you know now, would you still choose this career path? With all the life experiences some of you have gained over long career's if you could go back to high school with a clean slate in front of you, what would you do? Would you still do this? (asking more from a medic's view than rn, but all input is welcome and appreciated)
 
Yes, even with everything that I have seen and had to deal with, I love this career and enjoy working with the people i do. :rolleyes:
 
EMS is my second career..used to count beans!
 
I would not have gone into nursing.

But that wasn't my first choice ever anyway.
Lifeguard/dockhand? Yes.
EMT-A/Firefighter-rescueman? Yes.
USAF Med Tech? Yes.
Air NAt Guard nurse doing field support? OK.
 
No. I would've gone into nursing right away instead of taking this very roundabout, long, drawn out way.
 
As a non career EMS person, I would have started a career in medicine (either RN or Medic) but I didn't find this until I was almost done with my degree in IT so here I sit in front of a computer all day.
 
rescue99 said:
EMS is my second career..used to count beans!
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I used to be in the police department, a manager of three separate movie theaters, bouncer, security officer at concerts and special events for the city, and a freelance PC tech.

So, yeah, this is my fifth or sixth career in my storied path to EMS. :P
 
I should be too young to answer that question, but...

If I could do things differently, I would've been more confident my freshman year of college and started immediately on premed courses. Instead, I figured I was too bad with numbers to ever be a doctor. When I found myself doing well enough with stats to land a job, I realized that maybe I was wrong.

So here I am in EMS and premed, trying to see if I really love trauma as much as I think, and if I can survive a schedule not quite as awful as medschool. We'll see. Even if I don't go on to become a doctor, I'll probably hang around in EMS one way or another.
 
Don't know.



Honestly, this time last year I didn't even know what an EMT was, let alone the difference between an EMT and a medic. Now I'm in medic school.



I'll let you know after I've actually worked for a bit.
 
No. I would have done what I originally wanted to do, teach college level history or research and write history books. I haven't liked my job in two years. It may be where I'm at now, and I certainly hope to hell it is, but I'm ready to get out.
 
No I would have been rich. :P
 
I would have entered clown college! Fantastic career!
 
I would have done this alot sooner, if I had to do it all over again. I've had plenty of other jobs, mostly in micro labs and doing QC for different companies, and absolutely hated going to work every day. I don't feel that way about my job now.
 
Nope. I am grateful for all this job has given me and the things I have done, but all things being equal, I would have been a travel writer. Though I am practically evangelical about my job and employer, I just think I may be at the end of the road. Unfortunatly I feel as though I have painted myself into a corner with EMS, it's all I know how to do.
 
I wouldn't change it for anything, but I'm also moving forward from here.
 
Wow... what a good question. I don't think any of us who've been kickin' around for a few years would trade in our life experiences. After all, they are what make us who we are. The things we have gone through help to define who we are and what we believe today.

I know that if I had decided to become a medic 20 years ago, when I first got my EMT cert, I would not have had the opportunity for the myriad of amazing experiences I gained. I know I wouldn't have lived all over the country, I wouldn't have met the people I've met and, most importantly, never learned what I've learned as I've matured. Looking back, If i became a medic in 1989, I probably would have been a fair medic, but stayed a stagnant one, living in the same small town I grew up in, thinking that our way was the only way, "'cuz that's how they do it here."

Not now. I've traveled, I've learned, I've grown.

I'll be 40 next year and feel like I'm just starting to really learn.

After working in a separate career for just about 2 decades, I can say that while I wish I had kept my EMS certs current over that time, I don't regret one minute of my past ... and I'm excited to keep throwing open new doors in the future as I grow in the profession of pre-hospital care.
 
I would have done it sooner. Right out of high school and probably gotten my fire certs too. But if I had I would have never have gotten together with the love of my life and had a beautiful son. Our paths would have never crossed at the right time so I am glad it worked out the way it did.
 
Sasha said:
No. I would've gone into nursing right away instead of taking this very roundabout, long, drawn out way.
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+1. I like working in the field, but I would have pursued nursing first.
 
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