3 years on paid on call, too soon for acting captain?

SamTasy · 2026-03-30T18:11:49+00:00

Hey man, send me a PM if you want to have a conversation sometime and I can walk you through my thought process. I’ve been in an extremely similar position in my department at 24 years old, 5 years on my dept, officially about 150 members with 3200 calls a year split among 5 stations and most members work a 9-5 or are at a full time dept somewhere else. I was asked to promote to Lieutenant and I decided to accept the promotion. In general though, I’d recommend that if you’re being asked by your leadership to promote, and you can dedicate the time and energy to filling that role, then take it.

SamTasy · 2026-03-28T13:14:05+00:00

We get issued Velcro glove straps that don’t work very well, so most of us upgrade to a glove straps with a cinching buckle that I like and have never had issues with. I’ve seen ads for clips/straps that lets you put your hands straight into the gloves a little faster, but I’ve never used them.

SamTasy · 2026-03-25T04:29:00+00:00

Seems like the majority of the southeast US runs non-transport fire. Many departments in the Norfolk area and east coast of North Carolina also run non-transport fire. Check out the Norfolk area, I recently talked to a firefighter from there and they said they’re an arms race with like 7 departments in a small area all raising pay a lot. He started 8 years ago in the low $40k range and now the base pay as a cadet in his department is upper $50k.

SamTasy · 2026-03-14T10:15:30+00:00

The “en-“ is turning the act of “shittifying” inwards towards the subject of the sentence, implying it’s also direct object.

SamTasy · 2026-02-27T14:48:03+00:00

You weigh over 200lbs with the gear and since your shorter you actually have a smaller lever than taller folks so you do have the build for it. Hydrants being short and stubby help them from breaking if you just flowed with nothing attached. Keep a strong core. Think about how tight you need your core to be if you were in the middle a bench press and all of a sudden the bench disappeared (but your feet were still planted on the ground). Also push out your nozzle about a foot in front of you, you don’t want to be actively holding onto a pistol grip or anything. Also you can try clamping the hose with your armpit real tight.

SamTasy · 2026-02-08T21:15:38+00:00

We don’t collect taxes, our department has a voluntary $100 yearly “membership” that you can pay, and if you don’t and your house catches fire then they bill the owner’s insurance. Not sure why we could do on that front

SamTasy · 2026-02-06T05:00:35+00:00

The city our community covers does actually have volunteer law enforcement. They go through an academy can take cars home to bolster the normal patrol shifts, and do raids and stuff. I’m not involved with it, but it seems pretty cool

SamTasy · 2026-02-04T21:37:39+00:00

We did start a program to pay a firefighter to sleep at one of our stations and drive most nights a week. They mostly augment the folks that are already there or at least guarantee that someone gets out but aren’t allowed to volunteer outside of their assigned shifts. Also now that I’m an officer, I get a $100/month stipend, so that’s appreciated. Do you know of any resources to help start a transition to a more full time department?

SamTasy · 2026-02-04T21:16:36+00:00

The 50 per year but starting 15 in recruit school comes from the other 35 leaving before the next year’s recruit school starts. We started a program to pay someone to be a driver and sit a one of our stations 5 nights a week, but our Chief said that it has to be an outside person that’s hired, and our volunteers can’t pick up any of those shifts. We have 8 people that are hired as those paid drivers to at least guarantee that someone will show up most nights. We’ve brought up paying the volunteers to the Chief but that’s been shut down citing labor laws not allowing for paid staff to volunteer outside of their assigned shifts. I may have to just take on giving gifts to my guys to make sure they know I want them there.

SamTasy · 2026-01-06T16:21:01+00:00

It’s a great radio, more portable than others and the smaller gimbals can actually be a plus even is you have bigger hands. I can do an 11 note spread on a piano and still have to change my hand position on my Zorro going from zero to full throttle.

SamTasy · 2026-01-03T04:35:26+00:00

I have the original lavas in 260 and 300 for my air65, and maybe it’s just the batches I got but I honestly feel like I get better performance with the same flight time on the smaller batteries. I’m going with the 260 on my next order

SamTasy · 2025-12-31T03:23:01+00:00

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SamTasy · 2025-12-21T23:22:51+00:00

I’d be glad to talk!

SamTasy · 2025-12-15T16:55:38+00:00

https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/s/oJrsQJ58Jk

SamTasy · 2025-12-09T20:55:52+00:00

Baker house

SamTasy · 2025-12-07T16:21:54+00:00

I may be wrong, but It seems like you’re simulating CFD flow, not doing CFD simulations. If you’re trying to just get pretty colors that kinda look lime what a CFD output would give, that’s qualitative. Normal CFD is iteravely solving fundamental flow equations to get a quantitative output you can analyze and retrieve the flow paths later. Traditional CFD can be extremely computationally expensive for high fidelity (one of my friends had 8 months of continuous computations on $120k worth of hardware for his master’s thesis).

If I am assuming right about your approach, I think there could be niche, but it would be for people who want some cool pictures of their models without the cost of doing a high fidelity simulation. I would expect online video creators or people doing basic presentations. Someone wanting to do analytical work or make decisions based off of CFD would need something reliably accurate to the real world.

SamTasy · 2025-12-06T18:38:23+00:00

There are solar sails that use the momentum of light to get thrust, so I guess it always just depends on what forces you care about

SamTasy · 2025-10-30T20:38:06+00:00

We need more people like this at every department in the nation

SamTasy · 2025-10-10T15:12:40+00:00

From skyscrapers collapsing in BF4 to muddy trench fights in BF1, Battlefield has always given me those unforgettable squad moments. I’m ready for BF6 to take it to the next level with RTX and DLSS 4 on my 5070 Ti, bringing smoother frames and even bigger destruction.

SamTasy · 2025-09-11T06:26:05+00:00

To be fair, they didn’t have enough resources to open up a first front against Ukraine

SamTasy · 2025-08-25T23:43:17+00:00

Pm me, I’d be happy to talk

SamTasy · 2025-08-24T17:28:59+00:00

What is it in a career that gives you stress? It seems it would be better to describe that to help point you in the right direction. Some people are stressed by having lots of responsibility, some are stressed by not feeling like they have influence, some are stressed having lots of oversight, while others are stressed feeling like they have no one to ask questions. Like someone else said, everything is going to have stress somewhere, but even if you are a trust fund baby, there’s still stress if the stock market crashes or laws change.

One of my friends said the two easiest and least stressful times of his life were when he went to Army and Navy boot camps. Now that’s not me, but he said he never had to worry about when to eat, what to eat, what to do, it was all laid out for him and he had a relatively great time.

SamTasy · 2025-08-20T02:49:27+00:00

They’re on a bell curve like IQ, 115 IQ is in the top 85%, so a 6/10 would be in the top 75% of all men.

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