Oxnate wrote on Mar 11
th, 2021 at 10:37am:
Morphy wrote on Mar 11
th, 2021 at 9:51am:
Duckhands wrote on Mar 11
th, 2021 at 2:28am:
I liked and subbed to your channel for this video, before I ever found this forum. Thanks, it is much appreciated. Would you mind if I post some pics of my bow with questions here about your opinion on if I should keep working or find a new board?
Of course. If you had any idea how much time I have off you would understand why you never need ask that question. I work 8 days a month by the way.
And here's me working 8 days a week, like a chump. (More than 64 hours per week)
Ya we work 24s but that is very decieving as we are completely on call work. So I might come into work in the morning, get station duties done and then sleep or work on projects for the next 8 hours. Maybe mix it up and watch some youtube or even video games. It’s a tough life.
But it works out very well. For example, departments around here pay pretty well. Houston after all is one of the major hubs for medical in America, so there’s high demand for paramedics. If you are a paramedic with a good background and decent skills you can have a second job in the snap of a fingers. You have to beat companies off with a stick.
The other thing that people don’t understand is the pay scale. If you look on Indeed it shows us as pitifully underpaid. In reality that’s a very decieving number. For example let’s say you are really worked hard at a department and you work say 9 days a month...
Paramedics at Texas City, Pearland and others start out at 63k a year. Right out of school. Of course, no one wants to sit around all the time so most get second jobs and work maybe...oh 15 days a month. With a yearly or 3 yearly raise at those departments and a going up in rank you have a good pention, pull in around 80k a year and live an easy life besides the whole infectious patients and running into burning buildings while others are running out.
With the second job you can very easily hit well of 100k a year. Now, I say this and full disclosure I choose not to make that much. I spent years in school and I missed a lot of my daughters early years because of it. We will take less than that so I can be with my family and start my side buisness/write my book.
All in all it’s a nice lifestyle and the best thing of course is helping people.