u/atomicmoon33444

I don’t think he will be uploading like previously but I do think we will eventually be getting at-least homestead update videos or something.

Mine is when he forgets the keys to his cabin and he leans on the door and it opens.

Hard workout not just walking around, where’s the line between pushing your body for preparation and just being neglectful of human limits

My circumstance is in Alabama temperature of 92 degrees Fahrenheit. There’s some drama at my station between the rescue and the captain that it was to much work and stress on the body that they didn’t get enough time to properly recover before running calls.

The diet cola is 1000x better than Coke Zero and it’s less than half the price of a 12 pack of Coke Zero…. But it’s always sold out :(

Hey guys, looking for some real advice from anyone who took time off and came back, or someone who handle onboarding.

Quick backstory: I was a career FF/EMT for a little over a year before I had to step away because I moved. By the time I step foot in orientation next week, I’ll have been out for almost 4 full years.

I’ve got orientation with a new department starting up, but we have objective benchmarks we have to hit during the process to officially lock in the job. Honestly, the anxiety is hitting pretty hard. I’m worried I’m gonna look completely cooked next to the guys coming fresh out of the academy with all their reps and muscle memory.

I’ve been reading and studying to get my head back in it, but reading isn't the same as doing it. Couldn't really walk into a random station and ask to mess with their rig, so I'm going in completely cold on the physical side.

I know what it’s like to actually work the job. When I was on, I ran tons of calls standard transports, ALS and BLS calls, and regular EMS operations were complete muscle memory. I’m comfortable with all the EMS equipment and standard procedures, but I'm worried I might be a little rusty on the quick diagnostics at first, like staying two steps ahead of what the medic needs on a call. Combine that with not having a ton of working fires under my belt before I left, and going into practical evaluations after 4 years off has me second guessing myself.

Can’t find any matches

I’ve played derailed and wasteland more times than I’ve played terminal

The bing sound like half way through the song

I worked full time FF EMT for almost 2 years which I was given a better opportunity so I left for 4 years. I’m seeking to return because I’m now in a better position as well as pay has tremendously increased near me. I have interview soon with a local county. I have to take a written which I’ve been studying for but I’m afraid if I get hired I will lack in the hands on psychical skills. I’m sure I can get all these skills back relatively quickly with some refreshing and hand on training but I’m afraid I might look like I don’t deserve a job. Any advice or anything to calm my mind?

I was a Firefighter/EMT for a year and half. As of recently I’ve been thinking of going back in that path. Butttt I left because I disliked the Fire side of it, hated training, etc it never interested me but the EMS I always liked so going back and doing something I already know I dislike does not seem like a good idea.

How’s working for these company’s? Whats the day to day job like? Is it super stressful? Whats the schedule like?

I’m doing this mostly as a side job and I assume this is a 12 HR shift job. My current job is completely open as for availability (family business) so I will easily work around this job schedule if I do it. I don’t plan on this forever but maybe a couple years while I’m young to get some extra money.

They are starting at $21 a hour in my area.

I got started fresh out of fire school at 19 years old. About a year and eight months into the job I quit. At that time, I absolutely hated the job, but as I’ve gotten older I’ve realized maybe it wasn’t the job I hated but the leadership.

The reason I left the fire service is because I had a deep resentment towards the job, but looking back now I don’t think it was the job as much as it was my captain. He wasn’t a bad guy in an evil sense, he just was not personable and was just very fraud like around certain people but most importantly he was not a leader. During my probationary year, I was primarily at that station with the exception of floating out a few times. During that year or should I say the span of when I was working (1 year 8 months) my captain did not invest into me. I understand that it is my job and part of it is my responsibility to learn, but how am I supposed to learn when the person who I’m supposed to work under is not willing to train me properly behind what I’m taught in fire academy. That led to me going to other stations when I was floating and being expected to know and perform things that I was not confident in because at my home station, I was never shown or taught which intern led to me being looked at as a problem when I would float to different stations. I think the combination of that and deeply dreading going to work and most importantly, even being at the station with my captain led me early depart from the career. I did attempt to move stations, but at the time the department was much smaller than it is now, so that option was very rare, and when it was available, it usually went to the most senior on the list.

Just to clarify, Im not a complete moron the things I was shown I was proficient at, but the real problem was things I did not have much experience with. I mean, who wants to go into a fire with a guy who’s not 100% confident in his skills because I would not. I would ask my captain about certain things, but we would always get a half ass explanation and not even a training.

I think this experience so soon into my job led me to have so much anxiety going to work and kind of created a false image of what my entire rest of life is gonna be.