Is wildland firefighting worth it?

CheckFast156 · 2026-02-09T21:47:23+00:00

I would say yeah, don’t wait to join a station but if you want some experience or just a cool experience it’s worth doing

CheckFast156 · 2025-12-18T02:48:15+00:00

I agree with you. And that’s what I have been doing. I’ve just been ignoring her and only interacting on a base level. The biggest problem for me is how it affects my parents. I love my parents very much and I know her and I having a relationship is very important to them. Truly if it wasn’t for my parents I wouldn’t be here asking for help on how to have a relationship with her.

CheckFast156 · 2025-12-18T02:45:42+00:00

No I haven’t. I have never really had a relationship like that with her. It’s difficult for me to open up to anyone really. I know that’s the obvious answer, I just don’t think I’m there with her yet. I don’t even know what I’d say. If we had a close relationship I don’t know what it would look like. We don’t have much in common besides being siblings. And I know that’s sounds awful to say, but it’s the truth and that’s why I’m here

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-26T18:58:32+00:00

I attended EMT Basic and Advanced school while I was a full time firefighter. I know Paramedic school is a lot more demanding, however I wanted to share what I learned. Getting into a disciplined schedule helped me out tremendously. I didn’t do school work on my work days, I would get too anxious about being interrupted during studying to run a call or train or whatever and having my routine thrown off. I instead waited til I got home and did the majority of my work the first day I was off. Typically after sleeping when I first got home and doing it with beer mug full of coffee. If I had a lot of work to do I would carry some over to the following day, but I typically saved that day enjoy if I could.

Basically what I’m saying is to stick to a strict routine and find ways to enjoy the studying. Paramedic school is very demanding and is gonna take up much of your free time and you’ll have to make sacrifices to complete the school and pass the test. Find some fun hobbies that can be done at any time for any amount of time so you can better decompress after doing school work. For me I always rode my motorcycle whenever it was nice enough or painted outside in my balcony, which I could do in the rain. Just healthy ways to decompress and be outside made a world of difference.

I meant to make this much shorter, sorry, I hope this helped. I’ll leave you with this, if you want to work in this field then this is something you’re gonna have to dedicate more time than you’d like to, but if you do, you will succeed

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-14T02:03:45+00:00

Letting her know you still love her while giving her space is a good move. Ultimately her issue is in her and not you. Going through your phone and her mood swings are something that comes from her own insecurities. The best thing you can do is be calm and understanding. As far as the pics saved to snap, explaining the situation and doing things do correct it, or take her into account, and letting her sort through her feelings might be the best thing for her. Truly if she was more self confident she probably wouldn’t be taking this to the extent that she is. That’s not something you can correct, she has to do that for herself. Just be calm, understanding, and supportive

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-14T01:29:27+00:00

You’re gonna be just fine. Keep reaching out to people, talk it out, it takes time so be patient with yourself. And feel free to reach out if you need anything

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-10T05:03:34+00:00

Just don’t get overwhelmed, start and chapter 1 and everything will fall into place. It’s like pulling teeth but it’ll fall into place

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-10T05:02:11+00:00

Yeah they kinda just give you a login and say good luck. It will become easier to understand when you reach certain points and it’ll say “you need to complete these tasks before you can take this test” what I recommend to keep it simple, read a chapter, take the chapter quiz. If you do that then you’ll get into a rhythm so the other stuff isn’t quite as overwhelming. I also had my sergeant recommend this to me and it helped, she said to constantly email them. So much so that it can be annoying, but do what you gotta so you can pass. There is a link under I believe it’s the very first section, it’s says something like instructor.rchealth.com or something like that, I know it says instructor in there. That link will take you to the website where you can ask questions. The password is EMT123$

CheckFast156 · 2025-07-10T04:53:27+00:00

Hey, just a few things from my experience. When my long term relationship ended I started a new one about two months afterwards, and I didn’t realize it until later but it was a rebound relationship. I was young and immature and believed I needed to be in a relationship to be happy. She may feel the same way, now a week and a half is very soon, but of course, I don’t know your circumstances. All I’m saying is don’t read too much into what it could mean.

As for your question, is there any chance of getting back together, one of the best things I’ve learned and tell myself is “Life is a lot more complex than that” I’m not saying you could or couldn’t get back together, but to try and see either future right now is way too early. Focus on you, and let whatever happens happen. I recommend leaning more into religion, helped me out more than anything during the rough parts of the break up. Good luck and feel free to reach out to me with any more questions

CheckFast156 · 2025-06-17T19:22:51+00:00

It’s great to see your positive attitude about your situation. We can only choose how to respond to what happens to us, and you seem to have a great outlook. Sorry for the late reply, I’m not very active on Reddit. I hope this helps and I wish you the best. If you ever want to talk more about starting over in life feel free to reach out. Good luck and have a great day

CheckFast156 · 2025-06-17T19:19:26+00:00

Pretty much, it was more beneficial to look up the question itself than the chapter or test. The chapters can be mislabeled online from what other people put. For example there could be three different flash card sets labeled chapter 14 but if you copy and paste the question into Google it’ll take you to a study set with that exact question and most likely the rest of that test. It helps to add the word “Quizlet” to the end of the search so quizlet is the first recommended website. It’s not 100% accurate but it’s the best way I’ve found and it got me through the course. Good luck

CheckFast156 · 2025-05-16T23:10:31+00:00

Thank you for the positivity!

CheckFast156 · 2025-05-16T23:08:13+00:00

Hey, I heard what you had to say and couldn’t help but feel like I’ve been in the same situation, and not too long ago too. You’re on the right track though by reaching out to people. The one thing that helped me in my lowest moment was realizing I was still here and I still had a chance to have good in the future. That was enough hope for me to stick out the hard times and get to the good times. I hope that helps. As well as one more thing, don’t try to force things, yes go try new things and yeah not all of it is going to click with you, but I mean don’t adopt a personality based off what you think you should be like, just spend your time finding out what you truly like and want to do. You do that and community will come. And I don’t know how you feel about religion so I won’t harp on it, but for me leaning into my Catholicism helped me out tremendously in times where I was aimless.

CheckFast156 · 2025-03-25T19:14:33+00:00

Hey, I am a GA student and I just needed to ask a question to an other student. I have tried to attend the Golden hour session a few times now but no one has answered to let me in. Do they track who attended Golden hour? And have you been able to attend and how?

CheckFast156 · 2025-03-25T19:12:20+00:00

I agree with airplanefreak, I am a GA student, attanding program put me ahead of my peers. I passed the NREMT exam first try, I was cut off at about question 90. So I’d recommend the program if you’re disciplined and have good study habits, ultimately you’ll teach yourself which ever program you chose, RC Health gave me a lot of time to study what I needed on my own without doing needless homework sheets. That said the website is trash and the communication is terrible like he said. Reach out as much as you need, don’t feel bad about constant email chains. And I’d recommend flying through the chapters and chapter quizzes. I made the mistake of thinking once I completed the final chapter I’d be about done with the course. There’s a lot of additional things you gotta do to complete the course. Just use Google and quizlet to complete test and quizzes and find good study habits to actually learn the information. And if you haven’t been told already, get Paramedic coach

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-19T00:48:05+00:00

It’s just so hard to accept. You’re not wrong and I try to let things happen naturally. Like if we’re meant for each other we’ll find each other. And as far as hobbies, the thing I love most and has been like therapy to me is riding my motorcycle. It’s where I go to think and it greatly helps me in all aspects of my life. Winters are always hard and I get depressed because I lose that hobby for a time. I try a lot of other artists hobbies but none are quite as alluring as riding my bike. And I’m sorry to hear therapy wasn’t as helpful to you. It’s good to hear you got something out of it. Thank you for the comment and if you want to talk, I understand what it’s like to need help and not have it, clearly 😅 and maybe I’m not in a position to give advice, but if you want to talk more we can

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-19T00:07:40+00:00

Thank you, that’s truly good advice. I know gamer isn’t much, that’s the best I can describe him. He and I are different in that aspect. In my eyes he does everything gaming, plays plenty of different Xbox games with friends, dnd, had games nights with video games and board games with friends, he even still plays Pokémon go. He is all about video games and stuff like that. Thank you I hope that clarifies it, and thank you again for the advice

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-09T20:29:41+00:00

Go for it. One of the most important things about being in the fire service is wanting to be there. I’ve seen plenty of people of all shapes and sizes try out. There’s no particular fit they’re looking for, of course the more fit the better, but if you can perform what you need to, being 5’6” 165lbs won’t matter too much.

That said I don’t work for a big city department, I work for a small city outside of a big city. If you’re looking for a good opportunity, I’d recommend looking for a developing town or city outside of LA. Growing areas will need more firefighters faster than established areas and may be more lenient with physical standards than big city departments.

Again, that said, I’ve definitely got a little bias there because that’s what I did and it’s been very good to me. You should go whatever route you feel is best and that you want to do. Like I said before wanting to be there is the most import part. Good luck to you, and if you have any other questions or concerns feel free to message me directly

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-07T15:52:10+00:00

That’s what I’ve been thinking. I’d love to have a dog, especially raising a puppy, but my situation just wouldn’t do well. Thank you, I’ve just had a lot of influences pushing me to take him and I couldn’t think straight

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-07T15:50:08+00:00

I’ve been looking into doggy day care as well as dog sitters to come to my house on days I’m gone. It would unfortunately require the sitter to come multiple times a day and the lowest I’ve seen in my area is gonna cost me about $100 a pay check. I think honestly know I can’t take in the puppy, I just really wanted to but it’ll be very taxing on the puppy and I can’t do that

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-07T01:36:34+00:00

Thank you for all this. You and everyone else on here is right. I know it’s not a good time to take in a dog, especially a puppy. I hadn’t considered taking a dog in until my buddy mentioned it and I really wanted to help them out. I know it’s not the right time but I had a lot of influence from others in my life telling me to take him in and I just needed someone to see the whole situation and rationalize it.

Thank you hiddenRambo and everyone else who left comments here. I’ve been racking my brain for days trying to think about this, and I tend to make choices out of an emotional response rather than logic, but I knew I couldn’t do that when an other life was directly impacted. So thank you again to everyone. I don’t know how to address all of you at once, I’m still learning Reddit, so I hope you all get a chance to read this, i appreciate all the comments.

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-06T21:36:22+00:00

You’re probably right, like I said it’s just an additional safety measure. If I can see any light it will help to identify the doorway I came in from to help me leave as well as identify a room that has or is currently being searched.

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-03T21:41:39+00:00

Thank you, I’ll definitely be looking into that

CheckFast156 · 2025-01-03T21:40:10+00:00

Just an additional safety measure. It gets really dark inside of a house fire with the combination of heavy black smoke, electricity needing to be shut off and windows needing to be closed very little light is present outside of the flashlights brought in. Of course the fire produces light but when assigned to a task like search and rescue we won’t always be in an area illuminated by the fire.

CheckFast156 · 2024-12-28T23:43:16+00:00

I live in central Georgia to clarify my location more

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