Why A Fire Fighter? A couple years ago if someone were to ask me what I wanted to do for the rest of my life I would quickly change the conversation and dodge the question. That girl just wanted to continue to play D1 softball and graduate college with a four-year degree. The only idea I had after college was that I wanted to help and protect people. I ended up getting my degree in psychology and thought I found what I was looking for and had it all figured out. I thought to myself this is what I want to do. This career will allow me to help people, and be the one they turn to. But something felt wrong when I was just sitting behind a desk, in the same room all day just listening to people talk about their problems. I knew I liked psychology, but it was not something I loved. So I thought long and hard about quitting my job and leaving that part of my life behind. That part of my life that took four years to accomplish, late nights, and countless of hours of work. I knew that I would have not been happy sitting behind a desk for the rest of my life, so I left that part of my life behind me. The only direction I really had was the fact that I wanted to be helping people. To be the person that someone could turn to when their world fell apart. I wanted to be that person they could count on and rely on. I also knew only a few professions would allow …show more content…
I believe the brotherhood in the fire service means a group of individuals who are connected by a mission, and their mission is to serve and protect. They are people you can count on, at any time of the day while others turn away. They are people who take pride in what they do, because that’s all they know. Fire fighters protect their community without thinking twice about it, and they are usually the heroes that go unnoticed to the
I wanted to be a parole officer but as a correctional officer I quickly realized that many offenders gravitated towards me as a mentor even though I was very young. I begin to pull the offenders who often gave me a lot of trouble out one on one and realized that they just wanted to express their frustrations on the mistakes that they had made that changed their lives forever. At that moment I knew that I still wanted to help people make better decisions in life but not as a correctional officer and I begin to notice counselors visiting the offenders in church. I saw how the offenders express themselves in church and it made me realize how they were just as much human as I was. I made the choice to become a social worker ultimately after experiencing
This paper explores the different aspects in living a firefighter’s life. The topics that will be covered are the various types of technology when being a fireman, the different tactics you see on a day to day basis, the physical abilities one must be capable of, and the types of equipment used. The technology used today to help fight fires is extremely progressed and different than it was even just ten years ago. If it were not for these new inventions, communication would not be as easy and complex for any fire station. Firemen face different obstacles every day and have to be ready to jump right in with whatever the circumstance may be. Tactics such as
Hard work and empathy were instilled in me at a young age and ultimately have guided my life decisions. I always knew I wanted a career doing something that involved helping people and left me feeling that I made a difference in their lives. I finished my undergraduate degree in Nutrition, but in the end lacked passion for the profession. Following a personal experience with an Occupational Therapist, I was able to see the positive outcome she had on my grandfathers recovery which lead me to pursue my career in occupational therapy.
Being a firefighter is everything to me; it’s my dream job. But why did I want to embark on a lifelong, rewarding journey as a fireman? Looking back, I realized that three things really intensified my love for firefighting and sparked my dreams to become a career firefighter. The first was a near fatal car accident that my grand mom was involved in. My next realization is simple - I love helping others and having the potential to do something positive for the community I serve. Finally, the excitement along with the adrenaline I have when I get to go on a call Is like no other feeling; there is no other feeling that I can compare it to.
Firefighting has specific duties such as put out fires with specialized hoses and treat sick people and get them out of houses with burning buildings. It requires a lot of commitment and you will be forced to carry a person outside of a burning building and you must not be claustrophobic because you will be in a burning building with thick smoke trying to find somebody and you will get cramped by the smoke and debris. In this career this person need to be allowed to perform in the career with excellence and they need to be able to withstand heat and they need to be able to have the strength to be able to carry out a person in a burning building or any
The career that I have chosen to pursue is Human Resources Management. When I started out on the path of “what I want to be when I grow up” I started in a completely different line of work. I wanted to be a Nurse when I graduated high school. I enrolled in college and I worked at a children’s hospital. After a while I started getting burned out by working long hours and on the weekend and I started to wonder if this was the right career that I wanted to continue with. I was offered a position at a staffing company that tailored to physicians and nurses and I
With that being said, society has raised its standards on what it thinks that a fire service member’s behavior should look like, and if we don’t meet those standards, we can be
When it comes to my career of choice I am very alacritous. I am very excited and ready to start college so I can get my degree and start working. Psychology has always sparked my interest unlike anything else. I am always filled with so much joy when I know I have helped someone to the best of my ability to overcome a problem of theirs. That alone is enough to get my through the hardness of
In my experience, I have found that life has a way of putting one exactly where he or she needs to be. I started my journey going back to school to help families get resources in order for their children to have all their needs met so that they can feel and become successful. I thought by getting my degree in Human Services that I would work with youth and families, however, after taking many addictions courses and with the advice of Dr. Dyer to challenge myself by trying something different for my capstone, I decided to go to Oceans Addiction and Recovery services (OARS).
I realized I wanted bigger and better things for not only myself but for my husband as well. Being able to work as a nurse aide, I believe you have to have a strong heart in order to see the things that we see day in and day out. Working in a nursing home and seeing the dying patient has strengthened my inner ability to perform the job needed to get done. At first I was frightened and scared of having to take care of a patient who has passed and after several years of working as an aide I have gained the strength to set aside my fears to take care of the deceased patient.
We are the most technically advanced nation in the free world but yet we have not been able to reduce the number of firefighter fatalities over the years. Its one of the great mysteries of the world today. Our gear is better than what they wore thirty years ago, its better than what they wore ten years ago and we still lose an average of one hundred firefighters every year. I know that not all are dying in structure fires but just one is one too many.
This encouraged me to pursue my current job, a patient care technician in the emergency department. When I landed my job in the emergency department I was not too sure what to expect since I always worked in the field as an EMT and a firefighter. Well, turns out I loved it so much that I want to now move on to pursue a career in nursing. I did not realize the love I have for continuing my patient care which is what I like the most about working in the emergency department. Unlike when you work on an ambulance you only care for the patient for a short time and then have to leave what you had started. Working as an EMT in the hospital setting has given me the experience that I will need in order to pursue my goal now to complete nursing
I knew I wanted to be successful in life. I wanted my son to be proud of his mother. There was a strength in me I knew exsisted. I wanted to make an impact on my life and the life of others and I knew education was the key. I worked and continued to do research on healthcare careers and schools I could attend. After researching the different professions, I knew I wanted to be a Dental Assistant. I decided to move back to San Diego to pursue my new career.
Growing up, I was never really sure what to tell people when they asked what I wanted to do when I was older. Over the years I flip-flopped between a laundry list of possible professions: veterinarian, nurse, EMT, cosmetologist, and many more short-lived dreams. As I grew and learned from my life experiences, I realized
After visiting some actual fire departments, I realized as a firefighter you certainly have a lot to be proud of. It’s not your average job and does require quite a bit of organization to stay on top of everything. Everyday you have to be ready and prepared for just about anything that can happen. You never know what kinds