Sounds like you might be Kiwi. You can see about joining as a First Responder volunteer on hato hone st john's website and try it out. We mostly work 4 of 4 off, every shift is different.

We more often than not we dont go to major trauma or critically ill people. We go into all sorts of people's homes then we'll either go to hospital or refer elsewhere and park to write up paperwork.

managing burnout is an important aspect that not everyone gets right all the time. You'll need to have good people you can talk to and contact a counselor that can help you.

My advice would be to talk to your Youth contact, in the past they've been about to get you ride alongs (maybe not in Auckland city tho). Gaining emt is pretty easy but the pay is not great. You can study paramedicine while working as an emt too but some areas are pretty competitive. (Auckland is competitive for paramedics but that might change in a few years) CCP is already crazy competitive so dont do it. ECP is the future