The Official EMTLIFE Introduction Thread

[Chef]

@VentMonkey
Early in my career I was a pretty mean sautee cook focusing mainly on fish and poultry items. The past 10 years I have been a "Remodel Technician". I would come into failing programs and get them back on track financially, effieciently and improved morale levels. I am very good at it too!!! It's just a huge drain on your personal life and BP.

 

[Midazzled]

Hi, everyone! I'm a 32 year old Paramedic in South Carolina, where I work in a County-Based 911 ALS service and a private transport service, both part time. I am also a Army Reserve Medic. I recently came off of 11.5 years of Active Duty, where I was an 11B at Ft Benning and Ft Bragg. Other achievements I am proud of include MENSA membership and graduating Ranger School in the winter of 2005. I am riddled with ADD and my biggest goal in life is figuring out what to be when I grow up.

My hobbies revolve around racing dirtbikes and shooting, neither of which I have been doing enough lately.

My goals here are to learn about how EMS is done in other places, and to socialize a bit with people outside my response area.

 

[VentMonkey]

Hi, everyone! I'm a 32 year old Paramedic in South Carolina, where I work in a County-Based 911 ALS service and a private transport service, both part time. I am also a Army Reserve Medic. I recently came off of 11.5 years of Active Duty, where I was an 11B at Ft Benning and Ft Bragg. Other achievements I am proud of include MENSA membership and graduating Ranger School in the winter of 2005. I am riddled with ADD and my biggest goal in life is figuring out what to be when I grow up.

My hobbies revolve around racing dirtbikes and shooting, neither of which I have been doing enough lately.

My goals here are to learn about how EMS is done in other places, and to socialize a bit with people outside my response area.

Hi, welcome.

 

[brettman13]

Hello everyone! I am 21, and I am trying to achieve my goal of becoming an EMT-B.
I have completed my EMT course in May of this year, and I have been unsuccessful with completing the NREMT twice.
I don't understand what I am doing wrong, and I have come here looking for study tips or tricks on how you successfully passed.
Thank you, and any help would be greatly appreciated

 

[VentMonkey]

Hello everyone! I am 21, and I am trying to achieve my goal of becoming an EMT-B.
I have completed my EMT course in May of this year, and I have been unsuccessful with completing the NREMT twice.
I don't understand what I am doing wrong, and I have come here looking for study tips or tricks on how you successfully passed.
Thank you, and any help would be greatly appreciated

Hello, welcome. Give this thread a gander:
http://emtlife.com/threads/having-trouble-passing-nremt-b-suggestions.8740/

 

[MountainEMT]

Hello all. I am Keith. 25 y/o EMT-B in California (Southern California). I have been a certified since 2011. I worked couple different agencies around the county but now working Full time for a Casino EMT Department. I am also a Reserve Firefighter/EMT in my off time. I have read this many post in this site. Hope to be a help and learn more as I go.

Thanks All.

 

[VentMonkey]

Hello all. I am Keith. 25 y/o EMT-B in California (Southern California). I have been a certified since 2011. I worked couple different agencies around the county but now working Full time for a Casino EMT Department. I am also a Reserve Firefighter/EMT in my off time. I have read this many post in this site. Hope to be a help and learn more as I go.

Thanks All.

Hey, Keith welcome to the forum! Plenty of SoCal, and California folks on here in general; enjoy, and welcome!

 

[NYMedic453]

Hi everyone! 19 yo newb here from Upstate NY. Have only been working in EMS for a month or so. Planning on getting my EMT-B in the spring class but currently just a driver. Been hanging out on the sight now for a while and decided to create an account and introduce myself. Looking forward to learning from you guys

 

[VentMonkey]

Hi everyone! 19 yo newb here from Upstate NY. Have only been working in EMS for a month or so. Planning on getting my EMT-B in the spring class but currently just a driver. Been hanging out on the sight now for a while and decided to create an account and introduce myself. Looking forward to learning from you guys

Howdy, welcome.

 

[NysEms2117]

Hi everyone! 19 yo newb here from Upstate NY. Have only been working in EMS for a month or so. Planning on getting my EMT-B in the spring class but currently just a driver. Been hanging out on the sight now for a while and decided to create an account and introduce myself. Looking forward to learning from you guys

I'm in Albany lmk if u have state specific questions

 

[NYMedic453]

I'm in Albany lmk if u have state specific questions

Thanks will do!

 

[KREMT]

Hello everyone. I'm from Phoenix, AZ and just signed up today. I'm starting EMT-Basic in February. This is a career change for me after working in a cubicle for years. I'm excited (and a little nervous) to get started. My plan is to roll into a paramedic program after I complete basic. Any tips or words of wisdom?

Would love to get to know some medics in the Phoenix area (or even any part of AZ).

 

[hometownmedic5]

Introduction, well sure why not.

Hello. I'm Kevin. I'm a paramedic in America's hometown, Plymouth Ma. We run four dedicated dual medic ambulance in a town of over 130 square miles. I have been in EMS for 12 years in a variety of roles. BLS IFT and 911, ALS IFT and 911, site medicine, offshore MPIC(now called MCPIC I guess).

I hope I will be able to contribute something worthwhile now and again.

 

[VentMonkey]

Introduction, well sure why not.

Hello. I'm Kevin. I'm a paramedic in America's hometown, Plymouth Ma. We run four dedicated dual medic ambulance in a town of over 130 square miles. I have been in EMS for 12 years in a variety of roles. BLS IFT and 911, ALS IFT and 911, site medicine, offshore MPIC(now called MCPIC I guess).

I hope I will be able to contribute something worthwhile now and again.

Welcome, Kevin. Keep up the good posting.

 

[LivMoore]

From Houston, Texas and starting EMT-B class in a month! Super nervous and exited! Been lurking the forums, lots of good info- back to lurking!

 

[TransportJockey]

From Houston, Texas and starting EMT-B class in a month! Super nervous and exited! Been lurking the forums, lots of good info- back to lurking!

Welcome! We are hiring down here in Galveston, once you finish. Just saying lol

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[DrParasite]

So I'm sure I have an intro somewhere in the 90 pages, but I couldn't find it, so I wanted to make a new one.

I'm from NJ, born and raised, and spent 10 years working as an EMT in both Urban and Suburban NJ. I've worked both in the field and in the communication center, and when I pissed off the scheduler, I would end up assigned to either the CCT unit or the PICU transport unit. I was looked at either PA school or nursing school for a while, and completed all the perquisite classes for both, before realize that I couldn't do school full time and still afford housing and food. So after getting tired of the NJ winters, the NJ taxes, and the desire not to be stuck in a dead end job, I moved to North Carolina with the goal of find a less stressful lifestyle with a lower cost of living.

I did paramedic school in NC, but the private sector made me an offer that was too good to turn down, so I haven't been on an ambulance in almost a year an a half, but I am now a part time EMS instructor at two or three local community colleges, a firefighter instructor, and a 911 communications instructor, and work part time for one of the county fire departments as a firefighter/EMT.

Before doing EMS I earned a Bachelors degree from Syracuse (while working as an EMT making something like $9 an hour), so I am pretty sure I'm one of 3 Syracuse Orange fans in North Carolina. One of these days, I'll actually go back to looking at completing my masters degree.

 

[Operations Guy]

Hi my name is Operations Guy and I'm an alcoholic.... Opps wrong group of dysfunctional people.

 

[559 Ride Along]

I'm Kerry from central California. I'm 19 and my only experience in ems is from a friend from a fire department explorer program. I'm starting my first EMT class Jan 5th and just from reading random posts from stories to scenarios, I love this site.

 

[VentMonkey]

I'm Kerry from central California. I'm 19 and my only experience in ems is from a friend from a fire department explorer program. I'm starting my first EMT class Jan 5th and just from reading random posts from stories to scenarios, I love this site.

Welcome to the forum, Kerry. Good luck with your class.

A bit of friendly advice, you may wish to change your screen name, or thought process a tad if you're planning on getting into to the EMS field, especially working in the Central (rural) California area.

They grow on you after a while, and if your goal is fire, LDT's can help you develop interpersonal and customer service skills among other things.