Originally posted on 04/26/2018:

I was a paramedic for about 5 years

Pros- can Be fun at times, become good at patient assessments in a short time, good with skills such as IV’s/airway management, etc... great spot to start a career in the medical field

Cons- Pay, poor education, you’ll become way too familiar with the homeless population and with nursing home residents, not a great job to make a career out of, not much of a career ladder, you’ll see shit you’ll never unsee and no one else will ever understand it

If you want to use it to get on a FD, go for it. Pay would be decent with OT, you’d have a pension, union job, sit around all day and get fat while getting paid so basically it’s the American dream.

In hindsight, I’m glad I went the paramedic route and I’m glad I moved on from it.