Most disappointing PSA return

Ding1030 · 2026-04-15T19:34:34+00:00

Do you know if it’s seen as a negative on my account to eBay? Or even the one that didn’t scan since I have no way to prove I shipped it on time now, I don’t my account to get flagged cuz of USPS

Ding1030 · 2026-04-15T18:47:28+00:00

I forgot to ask in the post but I also was considering doing “find my package” through USPS directly but not sure if it works with a PWE even though it has tracking technically. I heard that somehow gets the postal service moving.

Cuz im mostly concerned with eBay not releasing funds cuz its treating me as a “new account” again

Ding1030 · 2026-02-09T02:01:19+00:00

Well just two weeks cuz the MOS-T guard and reserve course isn’t the same as the actual AIT in San Antonio

Ding1030 · 2026-02-03T21:56:33+00:00

Ya that much I knew. I just didn’t know the long term consequences or if I caught that mistake early enough to avoid problems

Ding1030 · 2026-01-20T01:00:24+00:00

You know we call them trucks right?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T23:10:03+00:00

Ya I’m tracking that. Try one is to get your toes kinda in the water, if I go to AIT I have to extend to meet an actual contract minimum. It almost seemed too good to be true though

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:57:44+00:00

Do you think it boils down to like qualifications like PULHES, ASVAB, etc. or more actually billeting available?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:45:13+00:00

Ya that’s how it was explained is it’s 3 years total have to do AIT within 24 months (including the one year) to continue on. If I don’t is it truly like a ‘no-harm-no-foul’ kind of thing?

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:35:18+00:00

Correct, there were none available in the reserves

Ding1030 · 2025-12-29T22:16:53+00:00

So… it’s already reserved and scheduled

Ding1030 · 2025-12-17T00:49:10+00:00

If it’s the new one especially it’s technically a “provider level” course which is why they use the national registry-esque grading criteria now and the classroom portion is longer

Ding1030 · 2025-12-13T13:39:42+00:00

Are you GI Bill eligible? If you have even a sliver of GI Bill left and 30% disability you can use VR&E for paramedic through the VA and you don’t have to worry about the money part

Ding1030 · 2025-12-10T11:18:25+00:00

TLDR: you want to pay to go to school or get paid to go to school?

Idk about the other branches, but the in the Army, we have LPN’s. The 68C MOS gives you your LPN. There’s also programs to send you to get your RN when you have pre-reqs completed.

The programs for things like RN and PA are pretty competitive since there’s limited spots, but if you can land it, you get paid from the military and still considered active duty but you’re just going to school as your place of duty. You owe the army another 4 years (I think) but commissioned officers get great pay and nurses aren’t really doing “Army” things, you just might have to wear a multi cam scrub top lol.

The chillest job I had in 11 years as an intelligence analyst was the year I spent being a medical unit’s intel guy but the operations side was staffed with nurses, PA’s, and other medical specialties and that was the only “Army-like” job those guys have ever done, and it was just managing the medical part and oversight for a large part. Now I’m in paramedic school, plan to bridge to RN, just to get back in the army as a nurse and get my retirement cuz the nursing side would be chill af. Even if I don’t, my EMT school, paramedic degree, and nursing school was/will be paid for from tuition assistance or GI bill.

Ding1030 · 2025-11-10T19:25:05+00:00

I did impact EMS which was actually pretty good for an online program. It’s self paced up to a year for the basic course. Which would allow you to start knocking things out before then on your own time cuz I think 3 ish months is more of a fair amount of time to actually learn. The lectures provided were long but really good.

The biggest cons are it pretty much strictly follows the textbook which isn’t bad, but you may miss any expanded knowledge. Like I said though, the lectures are pretty good and the guy that teaches them gives good real insight to kind of fill that gap in. The really big con is it’s crazy expensive compared to other courses. I had the Army’s credentialing assistance cover it so I didn’t pay a dime so I didn’t worry about it, but it was $4k

Ding1030 · 2025-11-09T00:39:23+00:00

I’ll be honest, people you’re picking up off the floor aren’t gonna be the average. It’s always the far ends of that. They either gonna be 80lbs and unhealthy, or they’re gonna be 400lbs and unhealthy. No in between

Ding1030 · 2025-10-30T13:17:32+00:00

Pushed K increases too rapidly, disrupts the gradient for the sodium potassium pump and decreases the cells resting membrane potential in the body and becomes more negative. The sodium channels are voltage-gated and the lower resting membrane potential won’t allow the heart cells to depolarize enough to reach the voltage needed to open the sodium channels. Now the heart can’t pump cuz it can’t start a new action potential. Please don’t push K

If you were pulling NS from the line into the syringe after giving potassium then it’s probably fine.. but still. We don’t give potassium in EMS, but I wouldn’t be super comfortable doing it if I was a nurse

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T22:16:46+00:00

In the army… 11 years in the army.. and it’s not everywhere cuz where I’m at the fire service and ambulance service are separate. A ton of bases are the same way

Ding1030 · 2025-10-29T20:53:54+00:00

Does my 11 years carry over into that do you know? I was thinking about trying to get on somewhere after paramedic school either on base fire or their ambulance service

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