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Definitly crazy. But thats why a person should immediatly continue education rather than waiting around as a basic.

96=4 days, 48=2 days, for the month that is the only time I am completely away from home. My full time job I respond from my house, not required to be at the station. I am on call basically 14 days a month. We transport about 2 a day so about 8 hours spent on the ambulance, the rest is spent at home. I work total of 20 days a month, leaves 10 days completely off duty. And again 14 days on duty I'm at my own house with my family. I know not the typical EMS job. Income combined is about $4000 a month. Cost of living here is cheap, so easily survive on it. I was a construction contractor. Work my butt off with my crews on job sites from early morning till dark. Then go home prepare equipment orders, study blue prints, prepare bids, etc. Hardly any quality time with my family.

Your welcome. One question are you saying EMS meaning EMT because you the say next step is paramedic? Most areas EMT's receive very little pay because they receive very little education. Anyone that says they are in EMS because they love the work should be motivated to advance to Paramedic level, so they can do more for the people they love to help. It is a shame that paramedics are paid so poorly but that was another recent discussion.

I'll take wise as a complement the rest I'll ignore. If you want discussion start out with a question that is clear and directs the discussion. As far as income I work a full time with benefits EMS job. Each month I work about about 96 hours for a second service with 16 of that being overtime, and I work about 48 hours with a 3rd service. I still have lots of free time with my family which is more important to me than all the money in the world. As far as owning a business, I did that owned a business for more than 5 years, grew to hate it. Made more money but there is no end to the work day. To keep it growing spent many nights working on the paper work side of it. Not worth the stress. As far as the multilevel and other get rich schemes that are always promoted as not being get rich schemes, the only ones that make big money are those that are liers and thieves. So what point are you wanting to discuss so I can give my wise opinion.

To me that still has the police, military look. I really think we need a way to look more like the healthcare professionals that some of us feel like we are. But thanks for your input lets keep working on all the ideas.

Dust good point. If we can get everyone to wear some good scrubs with reinforced knees and a few better pockets. Then the flight suits when need more durable or for bad weather. Maybe leave color choices to each service. Could work.

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What uniform would be professional but separate us from cops and FF? It was mentioned on another post that the badges and cop shirts so many choose to use actually places us in harms way. As healthcare professionals that work in a more rugged environment than hospital workers, what would identify us as street healthcare providers, be durable, look professional, but separate us from LE/FF? Think about it we see Dr's, nurses, lab techs, etc in scrubs and know they are some type of healthcare provider. Is there some type of more durable scrubs or do we just need someone to design an entirely different but identifiable uniform that the public would know w/o a doubt who we are? Are we just stuck wearing either LE/FF or t-shirts? I want us to become a recognizable professional group, distinct from other groups. What are your thoughts, ideas?

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