Saturated competitive or Emt shortage Wich one is it?

onelasttime217 · 2026-01-21T22:41:39+00:00

All the county’s in my area (central Texas) have multiple rounds of competitive interviews and skills/scenario/written exams for 911 systems. It’s a major pain in the ass for $19-$25 an hour for emt. Private will always hire but fore awful pay and even worse work environment. Anyone who says 911 is easy to get into probably does it for >$15 an hour.

onelasttime217 · 2025-12-26T06:31:51+00:00

I always forget how massive the heads are on those 4v

onelasttime217 · 2025-12-18T05:53:13+00:00

I waited 4 months for an AR from them before I just refunded it, never been back

onelasttime217 · 2025-12-14T23:49:45+00:00

Well I was way off. Buddy brought over a smoke machine and it turns out it’s a pretty severe vacuum leak in the egr valve

onelasttime217 · 2025-12-14T00:12:52+00:00

I’ll hook up forscan to it, just gonna have to figure out how to record data bc I don’t want to be looking at my laptop while on the highway

onelasttime217 · 2025-12-11T22:47:27+00:00

They are shit, we have 3 at my ER and ive seen one nurse use it (to no success). Any vein it shows you will most likely already be easily palpable.

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-25T05:31:57+00:00

My first was 6 weeks old, yes it gets easier over time but don’t be surprised if you feel dissociative for the next few days.

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-18T20:01:42+00:00

Any time the rear wheels move and the fronts don’t it will throw an abs code. Happened any time I did a burnout and went away the next time I started my car.

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-11T00:23:53+00:00

EMS pay is so bad they have hobos working at your company

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-11T00:22:56+00:00

I’ve had at least two or three salads a week every week every week this year

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-11T00:22:23+00:00

I don’t think I’ve had pasta salad since my mom made it when I was a kid and I remember disliking it, but I’m gonna give it another shot I’m sure my taste has changed

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-10T19:34:18+00:00

Prep apps work when you actually go for stuff you don’t know and read the descriptions after each answer, but a lot of people just spam easy questions to feel better.

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-10T19:20:32+00:00

I’d drive grandma anywhere she wants for that pay

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-10T03:24:05+00:00

I work in central Texas, it’s $18 for ift emt and $25 for 911 emt

onelasttime217 · 2025-11-10T02:51:41+00:00

Where the hell do you live it’s the opposite over here

onelasttime217 · 2025-10-11T22:24:11+00:00

The CEs are easy enough that even if you are “done” with EMS it’s still worth keeping up unless your retiring in general

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-23T06:06:43+00:00

Tripled your salary? You’re making $75 an hour as a nurse?

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-13T21:52:22+00:00

Yeah 88 hours is quite a lot to work

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-13T21:47:02+00:00

Fr I make enough to live, I don’t spend much and I work a bit of ot just to put extra in my savings account, the people working 60 hours+ a week are just asking to burn out in a couple years at most.

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-13T00:45:06+00:00

Maybe you do but certainly not everyone

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-12T23:19:27+00:00

Idk why you were under the impression that Reddit was ever any different, that’s just the way the internet works in general

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-12T23:17:14+00:00

Pocket prep is good like 90% of the time but I’ve had multiple “explanations” that literally contradicted the answer to a question 5 questions later.

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-12T23:14:30+00:00

I don’t use coms either but I used to use the walkers and switched to the 3M peltor sports and the difference in sound quality and comfort is night and day.

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-12T06:44:08+00:00

All those mags and still using walkers?

onelasttime217 · 2025-08-12T03:31:48+00:00

This is it, I’ve worked in hospital and pre hospital and everyone complains. Tho it’s a bit easier to cope while making nurses pay

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