firetender
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Have been off-line for a while with confuser problems, but am getting back into the swing of things now.
Strange change of life I'm in, now. I'm a tour guide driving one of a fleet of 2004 or newer Ford F-250 Luxury-Limo-Van seating 8 passengers, each in leather Captain's Chairs, around and about a volcano, Haleakala, on Maui.
The road to Hana is 53 miles, 617 curves and 54 one-lane bridges. The road to Haleakala's summit is 38 miles, the steepest paved road in the US and the only one running up to the summit of a volcano. A typical day is 250 miles from hotel to Hana to hotel and back to base. It is an unusual day if there's not at least one close (MVA) call on the journey.
(I never thought I'd actually enjoy driving a Ford high-top, but these damn things out-perform and out ride any ambulance I've ever driven. Of course, the Co. I work for actually doesn't let one get on-line with anything questionable going on -- something that No ambulance service I worked for ever did.)
For me, it's a natural extension of my work in the healing arts for these last 40 years. The themes of what I learned and experienced during my 12 years in EMS have literally dominated my life since 1985.
So I guess the reason that I mention this is to let you know that I left EMS in 1985 and have found that wherever I turned, the skills I picked up in the back of an ambulance, including handling emergencies, responding to people, coordination of resources, thinking out of the box, improvisation with materials at hand, crisis intervention, recognizing patterns, using intuition, and throughout it all concise communication, have all been transferable.
No matter what I wanted to do, the life skills I gained as a medic meant I'd be an asset no matter what position I wanted to take on. Perhaps more important than anything, I knew that there were few things I couldn't handle; even if I found myself in over my head. How many times had I worked through such scenarios in the back of a rig?
Keeping my experiences alive in me have informed and enhanced everything that I've done since. Feel secure that the same thing can happen with you, no matter where your path as a healer takes you.
Strange change of life I'm in, now. I'm a tour guide driving one of a fleet of 2004 or newer Ford F-250 Luxury-Limo-Van seating 8 passengers, each in leather Captain's Chairs, around and about a volcano, Haleakala, on Maui.
The road to Hana is 53 miles, 617 curves and 54 one-lane bridges. The road to Haleakala's summit is 38 miles, the steepest paved road in the US and the only one running up to the summit of a volcano. A typical day is 250 miles from hotel to Hana to hotel and back to base. It is an unusual day if there's not at least one close (MVA) call on the journey.
(I never thought I'd actually enjoy driving a Ford high-top, but these damn things out-perform and out ride any ambulance I've ever driven. Of course, the Co. I work for actually doesn't let one get on-line with anything questionable going on -- something that No ambulance service I worked for ever did.)
For me, it's a natural extension of my work in the healing arts for these last 40 years. The themes of what I learned and experienced during my 12 years in EMS have literally dominated my life since 1985.
So I guess the reason that I mention this is to let you know that I left EMS in 1985 and have found that wherever I turned, the skills I picked up in the back of an ambulance, including handling emergencies, responding to people, coordination of resources, thinking out of the box, improvisation with materials at hand, crisis intervention, recognizing patterns, using intuition, and throughout it all concise communication, have all been transferable.
No matter what I wanted to do, the life skills I gained as a medic meant I'd be an asset no matter what position I wanted to take on. Perhaps more important than anything, I knew that there were few things I couldn't handle; even if I found myself in over my head. How many times had I worked through such scenarios in the back of a rig?
Keeping my experiences alive in me have informed and enhanced everything that I've done since. Feel secure that the same thing can happen with you, no matter where your path as a healer takes you.
