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Not much. The smart ones sleep throughout the day and are good for their 72 off. Most get an hour or two of broken sleep and use their first day as a recoupe day.
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Not much. The smart ones sleep throughout the day and are good for their 72 off. Most get an hour or two of broken sleep and use their first day as a recoupe day.
EpiEMS
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Beat out 4000 people for 30 spots yearly
And you don't have to be a medic, you're hired with the expectation of zero certs. You've got to do a minimum of three years in fire first, though.
EpiEMS
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Beat out 4000 people for 30 spots yearly
Eh...that last part isn't so much my "thing". I'm averse to burning buildings.
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I'm not too fond of it either (anymore). If it weren't for the pay and benefits, I'd have been gone to WilCo.
Epi-do
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For some reason, I find writing thank you notes tedious and painful. I really dislike doing it. That being said, I have gotten 3 of 5 written for the interviews I had yesterday and today. Guess I better go finish up and get the other 2 done.
EpiEMS
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Sometimes I think that full-time EMS would really "do it" for me, as far as satisfaction with a career. I just, dunno, you know? It's a question of career path and progression -- there's not as much of it as there is in other fields. Seems like FD has more of that.
I'm convinced they make no difference at all, frankly. I've been interviewing my a** off, and found that (not a valid study by any means), anecdotally, I get no better yield on jobs without thank you notes as with them.
Epi-do
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I find that interesting. My experience has been quite the opposite. I have gotten a lot more offers after interviews where I have sent a thank you note. Of course, if after an interview I don't feel like the job is a good fit or someplace I want to work, I don't bother writing one. I tend to only send them after interviews where I feel things went well and it is a place that I want to work. So, that being said, it is completely possible that the note doesn't have a darn thing to do with the offer, and I would have been given one even without the note. On the flip side though, it is one more opportunity to sell myself and to get my name in front of them. It doesn't take all that long to do, and postage is cheap, so why not.
The other thing I have found is that more and more of the people I have talked with that do send a thank you note after an interview are doing it by email these days. Maybe I am just "old fashioned" or what have you, but I think that by sending a hand written note instead of an email, even if it takes a bit longer to get to it's destination, helps me to stand out a bit more as well.
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An email is definitely not as meaningful as a handwritten note, surely -- it also could be an industry by industry and firm/company/service by firm/company/service thing. Heck, it could even be regional? I like the idea of writing especially to places that I felt I really gelled with. That's definitely something I could see myself doing.
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I've been trying to reconcile this myself. I've been thinking of getting nvolved with policy research or education. That way I can get off the street after a while and improve the profession on a grander scale. I'm just not sure about how to go about accomplishing that.
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So my cousin decided after his 11 year old was dx with Hodgkin's lymphoma last month, that he has had enough.
He hung himself tonight. In my coverage area, and was transported to my base hospital.
He was breathing on his own after medics got ROSC. Then they RSId him.
He has ARDS, decerabrate posturing, and diabetes insepitus. Gift of life has been contacted and it won't be long.
FML. His poor kid.
He hung himself tonight. In my coverage area, and was transported to my base hospital.
He was breathing on his own after medics got ROSC. Then they RSId him.
He has ARDS, decerabrate posturing, and diabetes insepitus. Gift of life has been contacted and it won't be long.
FML. His poor kid.
NomadicMedic
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Oh my god. So sorry Anjel.
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That's terrible, Anjel... Thoughts and prayers go out to your family 
Clare
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My flatmate and his girlfriend are away for a week, hmm, what sort of trouble can I get up to with the house to myself, suggestions?
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Good grief Anjel! Im so sorry to hear that! Thoughts and prayers are heading that way.
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Anjel, my thoughts are with you and your family.
You've always been there in my times of need, I always have an open ear that's good for yelling into, venting, at, whatever you may need.
The internet in my new house is dumb fast...Fast where you at? I'm gonna slay you in come COD.
You've always been there in my times of need, I always have an open ear that's good for yelling into, venting, at, whatever you may need.
The internet in my new house is dumb fast...Fast where you at? I'm gonna slay you in come COD.
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Sending prayers your way Anjel.
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I can come play in sandbox, yes?
Too bad y'all don't get any snow or have any mountains
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And that results in a more competent medic how, exactly? Silly 'traditions'/'rules' such as that are one of the reasons that EMS and fire should be de-linked.