What was your first job after getting your EMT, ALS, Paramedic certification/license?

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Permalink Reply by Skip Kirkwood on December 4, 2011 at 9:04am

Military ambulance (Navy), then

Private ambulance, then

Hospital-operated EMS system for a city, then

Fire-based EMS system, then

Hospital-operated EMS system, then

County government EMS system.

That took 38 years!  Good luck -- enjoy!

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Permalink Reply by James Bartus Jr. on December 4, 2011 at 1:12pm

Right after getting my EMT I worked as a nursing assistant at a nursing home for 2 years, there were no open EMT positions in the service my dad worked for (the only place I had really wanted to work). I contemplated nursing vs. medic school, then a position opened up, I took it and that decided for me, medic school. I stayed with that service (hospital based) for 10 years, somewhere in that time I got licensed as an RT and worked in the same hospital in respiratory, still working EMS too. Getting bored again I applied to PA school and went to work closer to school at a private not for profit service. Though my dad was a medic/ff, I was never interested in the fire service, medice is more my "bag."

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Permalink Reply by Paul Garcia on December 4, 2011 at 11:47pm

First Job was 

ARMY 

565 Ground Ambulance Co, 

1/506 Infantry

Acute Care Grafenwoehr Germany

6th Ranger Training Bn

Department Of Combat Medic Training/Private Ambulance In San Antonio 

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Permalink Reply by Justin Sleffel on December 5, 2011 at 10:11am

After EMT-B and EMT-I, I worked as a dispatcher for a private air-medical service.

After paramedic, my first (and current) job was for a county government, non-fire based EMS service.

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Permalink Reply by Candice Harris on December 5, 2011 at 11:46am

WOW!! That is awesome. Thanks, it's nice to see there are so many options in EMS.

Skip Kirkwood said:

Military ambulance (Navy), then

Private ambulance, then

Hospital-operated EMS system for a city, then

Fire-based EMS system, then

Hospital-operated EMS system, then

County government EMS system.

That took 38 years!  Good luck -- enjoy!

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Permalink Reply by Candice Harris on December 5, 2011 at 8:54pm

Memphis, TN? Are you still working in Memphis?

Chance Gearheart said:

My first job was volunteer. No one would hire an 18 year old EMT-IV. I ended up working in Memphis on a 911 truck for the next two years.

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Permalink Reply by Devin Nemec on December 10, 2011 at 7:04am

Army (02-11)

Boy Scouts (05)

Private Ambulance (05-current)

 

I work with a lot of guys who are EMT's and some Paramedics who had "fire" in their eyes when they started at "Private Ambulance".  Most of them still work here and volunteer or are part time with a department somewhere in hopes of getting a full-time offer.

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