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Hello all, my name is Jeff and i was, after the most harrowing trial of my life inorder to attain it, certified as an EMT-B! Didn't think i had it in me. Have not worked in the field yet but can't wait, and am going through the hiring process for two different counties EMS agencies right now. Have many questions but will post those on another forum. Shalom!

No bro, your reply is fairly whackerish though.

I have noticed, as i embark on the EMT job search, that different agencies can have vastly different skills tests and asessments they may put a candidate through. One agency i am in the hiring process for-which is not Charlotte's Medic EMS service, since they do not require their people to take the MMPI-is going to require me to take the infamous MMPI, the controversial 500 question, suposedly exhaustively thorough, 'see into your soul' Minnesota multiphasic personality test. I can't say i agree with that requirement, but i was told it's so they can 'evaluate if a person is cut out for the job'. Has anyone else here had to take this or any other pre-hire personality test? How'd it go? Could you opt out? Did they give you the results? Did you or anyone you know not get the job due to the results? And just what the heck are they looking for as far as you being a good bet? What traits are they looking to see? The only established, proper way to interpret the results is to both take the test and have a brief interview with a shrink. I'm not so sure they'll be doing the shrink part of it. And just to get this out of the way, yes, the MMPI has s built-in deception detector which will detect if you're lying on many of your answers. I could get into just how that works, and most people who think they know how that's done are wrong, but trust me, there's no way to skew the test in yohr favor and not have it show up. Thanks,bros and sisters

I'm going to go out on a limb here and take a wild ass guess that you are in NJ. Home of the first aid squad nation and whacker central. Crappy protocols , petty squabbling and million $$ squad buildings with bars in the back room. The last time I had to go to NJ to pick up our new ambulance at the PL custom Factory , we stayed at a Hilton inn not too far away. while we were sitting there having our morning coffee & breakfast there was a parade of vehicle that came screaming by with more lights than our new ambulance. The best one of them was a rusty clapped out toyota supra with four different color doors and fender panels from the junk yard on it from the 80's that had a light bar on the roof, headlight flashers, tail and turn signal strobes and a rear window set of LED's. The value of the car was way less than the cost of all the whacker lights bolted onto it. Our salesman explained that it belonged to an asst chief of the local first aid squad and he was a proud EMT-B with the local service well known for trying to have the most lights in town. Pretty crappy care doesn't matter if you have lots of lights on your junker.

study hard. Im not sure what course youre taking, but the one i took in NJ was 250 hours for EMT

Maybe texas jails don't have internet access.

Yeah Richard, we had a medic who I was training. She went to sleep and we got a call. We waited for her to come out of the sleeping room and she didn't. We went in to get her and found her unconscious. Had to call another ambulance to our original call while I worked frantically to get her blood sugar up from unreadable to 40. She was diagnosed with Diabetes and it was so brittle she had to quit working and claim disability. She had no idea she was diabetic, she said that she felt drowsy all the time but never put it together that she was diabetic even with cuts that didn't heal up right away. Good thing that ambulance call came in or we would not have found her till it was too late. I'm a diabetic and the way I found out was I stepped on a lego and cut my foot. It took months for the cut to heal. My wife asked me why I was limping and I told her I had cut my foot 2 months earlier and it still hadn't healed. She called a endocrinologist office and got me a appointment that day. My A1C was 15. I now can say with Metformin, Lantus, and Victoza every day along with not eating a lot of sugary stuff, my A1c is down to 6.5