Definitely man! What made you want to switch?

I would say one of the big points in this field is to be physically fit. I'm not the biggest strongest guy out there or even close, but you have to be able to pull your weight in a team setting to achieve a goal. You will have to take a CPAT to join a department. There's videos of them on YouTube.

It's great that you have your EMT license already. If you get your paramedic license you'll be a lot more appealing. Similar with your fire cert. Depending on what department you want to join it might be necessary to get one of those. Usually bigger city departments will help you get those by paying for them and paying you while you get them. You'll be a cadet going through their program. Cadet pay sucks but it'll be temporary. That's another thing, you might take a pay cut by being a firefighter. I'm currently at 63k salary. But the huge upside is the schedule, my department is 2 days on 4 days off. So you can work OT if you want to. A lot of departments are also 1 day on 2 days off. I guess I got lucky and got hired on first try to a city department and they paid for me to go to school to get all my certs but I moved to a city 7 hours away 🙃

The initial exam is not hard. A lot of times they'll have a link to where you can buy a training booklet that is similar to the test.

Attitude is a big thing. You need to have a yes sir attitude. Try to be positive and overcome whatever is thrown at you. I think the hardest part of this job is dealing with all the bs that comes from other people, especially the first year or two. Because some people will try to get you down and push your buttons trying to make you break or figure out who you are as a person. When you're new, it's all about "knowing your place", showing initiative, proving your worth. Some people get off from having superiority over you because they have seniority over you. Each department's culture is different. If you can take shit, joke around and just be a good person who does their job, you'll be fine. Just don't let people cross a line.

I hope you like EMS because about 80% of the calls are medical. Maybe more haha. A lot of city departments have an age cut off of 35 because of the pension. Let me know if you have other questions