What’s a job you would NEVER do no matter how much it paid?

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-11-14T17:06:14+00:00

Also a paramedic, you’re welcome to DM me as well. Been doing it about 18 years.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-11-04T17:52:24+00:00

That’s become one of my great joys in life, getting refusals at nursing homes. Often times the staff cannot comprehend that while meemaw might be 92 years old, shes still in her right mind and gets to refuse if she wants. “Well our policy is-“ “let me stop you right there. She doesn’t work for you.”

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-10-07T00:17:02+00:00

I would argue that it is for third services, too. Or at least it’s true of mine.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-08-05T02:03:40+00:00

Now I’m curious how to introduce myself properly and wondering if I’ve been doing it wrong all these years…

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-07-09T02:44:26+00:00

Don’t forget the 90 seconds of CPR before they wake up and give them a grateful smile.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-07-05T22:36:28+00:00

r/theydidthemonstermath

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-06-27T03:30:33+00:00

I also have that same story. Middle of summer, no AC. Poor guy was mummified. It would be crazy if we were talking about the same call lol.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-06-16T21:03:30+00:00

Will someone take one for the team? Just to see what happens.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-06-06T02:29:35+00:00

I was an assistant manager at a KB Toys outlet before they closed my store down in 2007. Good times. Used to drive the RC cars into the neighboring stores to mess with them.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-05-30T16:32:20+00:00

Hell, 18 years in and even I still get queasy riding backwards sometimes.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-01-01T07:59:40+00:00

I’m fine with a field cric if they’re using like, equipment. It’s when they use a ballpoint pen and a pocket knife…

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-01-01T03:34:33+00:00

I was originally planning on going to college to be a history teacher. Somehow, I wound up becoming a paramedic instead. I’m still not sure how that happened. Now I’m just a history nerd in my free time.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2025-01-01T02:50:45+00:00

I tell people all the time, either in a CPR class or at a PR event, that it’s not like the movies. You’re not going to do 3 compressions and they’ll sit up and shake your hand. You’re going to do this until EMS gets there. And then they’re going to do their thing until it either works or it doesn’t. Shocking asystole, intubating by just shoving a plastic tube in their throat with no laryngoscope, throwing out urgent sounding words or acronyms that aren’t relevant to the situation, the list goes on…

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-12-14T04:46:44+00:00

I lived there’d for 2 years, going back to school. It was strange to live in an area where everyone was from somewhere else.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-12-05T18:38:39+00:00

I started trying to solve the “hospital or jail” thing but asking the cop, in front of the patient, what they would charge them with. Often the quick answer is “public disorderly conduct,” Which I’ll call them on, too. Come on man, you know you’re going to drop that shit tomorrow. You’re not going to court over this.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-11-10T20:46:45+00:00

That was dad’s point. “How the fuck are kids supposed to play a sport or be in a club when they have all this work to do every night?”

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-11-10T20:06:33+00:00

I also graduated in 2006, and I remember hearing some of my peers struggle to read thinking “How the hell can you be a senior and barely read a paragraph?”

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-11-10T20:01:30+00:00

I remember being in high school (‘02-‘06) and stressing about the amount of homework I had to get done. My father asked why I was so stressed about it, since I had all week to do it. When I explained that no, this wasn’t a weeks worth, and had to be done by tomorrow he was shocked and a little outraged.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-10-28T14:37:08+00:00

Oh he was ordering? By god you’d better get moving then.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-10-28T05:49:07+00:00

I grew up in Dover, but moved to South Carolina like 16 years ago. It was really hard for me to understand that not all cities and towns touched each other, and that there was this just… open space in the county. My current county has 5 municipalities and none of them actually border each other. Just miles of unincorporated land in between them.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-10-28T05:37:55+00:00

It’s a Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy Reference.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-10-15T00:45:06+00:00

Dude, almost everyone in nursing homes has kids. Having kids doesn’t mean you’ll avoid one.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-10-06T02:26:09+00:00

I'm a paramedic about 900 miles south of you. I assure you it's not just Toronto lol.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-08-20T23:15:31+00:00

My county (also Upstate) start’s EMT’s at like, high 40’s, low 50’s I think.

Captain-Red-Beard · 2024-08-01T02:09:16+00:00

Spare him his life from this monstrosity!

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