hey ! good to see your coming back. what I know for sure.....Buds Ambulance, based in Dolton, Illinois......right on the southern tip of Chicago....does primarily 911 work for about 15 towns. So as a medic...youd be doing mainly 911, and im sure maybe the occasional ALS transfer. Trace I know has the 911 contract for Tinley Park....and I believe they do a lot of transfer work also. The other privates pretty much have private emergency contracts, and transfer work. If your not opposed to doing fire....Id look into a company called PSSI (public safety services, Inc).....they provide firefighter/paramedics to MANY of the chicago suburbs...where you actually wear the towns uniform, and work in their fire stations. There is also another company called PSI (paramedic services, INC) that does the same thing. Kurtz ambulance, as well as Superior ambulance....also have divisions that contract you to a fire dept job. Some of these contracts are for paramedic only....and some are cross trained firefighter/paramedics. The downfall to all the above listed jobs......somewhat lower pay. If you wanna make decent money as a paramedic ( im assuming you have national registry).....when you get here....get your Indiana cert.....and work in northwest indiana. its right near chicago.....and there is a paramedic shortage. medics are paid well. Lot of part time and full time work available. Prompt Ambulance is one of the big private services in that area( they do 911 for about 5 towns, as well as transfer work). I believe they start medics at about 16.35 per hour. There are also a few fire departments that hire medics part time....all in the range of 16.35/hr and above. If your young enough, there is also the option of testing for full time fire departments. In northwest indiana....once again.....as a medic you can qualify for the fire departments.....and since there are not many medics, there is not much competition. In illinois is much harder !!
