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What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 2:35 pm
by tojjer
I'm a Paramedic for my sins.
In my 20th year now and looking at giving it up in another 2 or 3 if possible.
It's certainly not the job I joined anymore, we're just everybody's whipping boys now. People can't get appointments 24/7 anywhere else, so they call us for the most ridiculous things going.
Even worse, is our lot feel obliged to send us to it!!!!
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:07 pm
by sussamb
Know the feeling. Thankfully I spent my last three years on the response car, took great delight in telling folks they weren't getting a free ride to the hospital just because they couldn't be bothered to contact their GP
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 3:14 pm
by tojjer
Our response cars are mixed into the rota. It's the nights that really do me in.
I've always done shift work, but it's starting to catch up with me now, big time
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:35 pm
by sussamb
Even better our car was days only, another reason I went on to it, couldn't take the night shifts any more!
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:40 pm
by kernowing
I really don't know how you guys put up with it. Looking at some of the TV programmes, I'd have a problem keeping my cool with some of the things the Ambulance service gets called out to!! You have my admiration.
I did my last 25 years as a Digger driver, now happily retired
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 6:51 pm
by Stu
Big bad bus driver here!
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:02 pm
by JD Hog
Retired self employed cabinet maker.
Currently have tech forum and support for specialized cabinet making software.
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:53 pm
by Moose
did real estate till I was 55 than I retired having fun for the last 15 years and many more to go (I hope)
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:38 pm
by tojjer
JD Hog wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:02 pm
Retired self employed cabinet maker.
Currently have tech forum and support for specialized cabinet making software.
Must be good to be able to make things with your hands.
The only thing mine seem to be able to make, is a mess!!
Re: What do you do to pay the bills?
Posted: Sat Sep 01, 2018 10:40 pm
by tojjer
Moose wrote: ↑Sat Sep 01, 2018 7:53 pm
did real estate till I was 55 than I retired having fun for the last 15 years and many more to go (I hope)
I do love the descriptions you lot put in the write up.
Never seems to be anything like it when you actually see it