Eventually I will turn this blog into one of those smart and insightful EMS blogs that people quote from and steel ideas from, but that isn’t going to be today. Today, I went to the Southern job to train some folks on Emergency Vehicle operations, I have scheduled it for 6 hours, only went Read More…
Category: The Mundane
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Changing plans
Holding off to drop my letter off until Friday for a couple reasons. 1. I’m out tomorrow for OC health check up and a day off, quitting today could cause problems. 2. friday is still two weeks I’m reading my offer letter and its a little off putting, i will be spending 2 hours at Read More…
a busy week, and 21 days
I start my new adventure in 21 days, give or take, either way May 18th is about 3 weeks away and I am excited. This is fulfilling a goal I set for myself a very long time ago, that being to get onto a municipal service and sink into relative anonymity only venturing out when Read More…
EMS and dressing the part.
First let me say right up front, my usual mode of dress as the Southern Job is blue medic pants, a t-shirt, and either a polar fleece vest or a light jacket. This is our uniform and it is how the community is used to seeing us, should we change uniforms then I will adjust Read More…
oops
So I have been waiting to turn in my notice from my current job, mostly because there is a good possibility they will tell me I no longer need to come in afterward, and we need as much money coming in as we can up until I go to the ambulance. Today i was looking Read More…
24 days
Had a thought this morning that since I am blogging about a lot of EMS related things here in the twin cities area, it’s probably a bad idea to name the services I work for, so for now until whenever it’s safe I will refer to my full time agency only by the full time Read More…
30 days more or less
30 ish days My last day at my current job will be May 15th, the irony of the fact I am writing this on my work computer does not escape me. To say I am excited would be applicable, so would scared shitless. I have spoken to several people who work for the Read More…
So why the change back?
This is by far the most common question I get asked regarding why am I leaving my nice cushy office job and going back to crappy hours, job stress, and low pay. The answer is a complicated one, the biggest reason I am doing this is that I have gone off plan. I love front Read More…
The Road Home Part Deux
So I launched my blog yesterday, well really relaunched it, I used to run a blog called the Zombie medic, but forgot to renew the domain name and it was gobbled up by another company and they are parking on it, those bastards. Anyhow, I will start off by saying getting to this point has Read More…
The Road Home
Well here we are, So lets start with the who, what, when, and why. I entered EMS in 1995, I am the son of a Fireman and civil engineer, my Uncle worked as a paramedic here in the Twin Cities for years and help to start a helicopter based ambulance service locally – they wouldn’t Read More…