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So we have been in Florida for 1.5 years now. I have really tried to give it a chance here, but I just hate it. There are NO jobs for paramedics who aren't firefighters and even if you are dually trained you spend years trying to find a job. Unless you want to kill yourself and your back running your ass off for 10-12 bucks an hour for a taxi.. er I mean private ambulance service...you are out of luck. Thanks to a recent episode of SVT (new onset) I am completely disqualified from any fire job or even fire academy. I have been passed over for even the ER tech jobs, despite a medic license in two states, a nurse aide cert, and five years of EMS experience. We have no hopes of leaving any time soon because my other half can't find a job anywhere else. And despite a 3.5 GPA and healthcare experience, I have been rejected from nursing school three times. What the hell more do they want? I truly get angry when I see the fire department pass by on the roads. I am sure there are some good medics down here, but all of them I have had any interaction with so far are a bunch of mouth breathing corn-fed testosterone factories that don't seem to know their ass from a hole in the ground, but by God they are fucking firefighters so they have a job. Never mind the fact that there are practically NO structure fires in S. Florida, since it is all stone construction and few ignition sources since it stays eighty degrees plus year round. I have seen more true structure fires and a medic in Carolina than many of these people do in their whole careers. It is just sickening. Someone please give me some advice.