>> Prior to getting into EMS, I was in residential financing as a loan officer
and through the early 2000s to 2007, I was doing great but then the market tanked around 2007
and I needed to start looking for a job that was, you know,
more secure so I decided to get into EMS.
Prior to being in residential financing, I was a personal trainer and I went to college
and got my bachelors of science and [inaudible] science so I had, you know,
I had worked with patients with cardiac rehab and I've worked with athletes to help them,
you know, do better in their sports and also just general fitness
with clients who wanted to lose weight.
So I felt like that EMS would be good.
I had some friends that were in the EMS field already
and I liked what they had to say and I like the schedule.
A lot of places, you work four days on and four days off and I just figured
that might be a good fit, the shift work that they have.
So that's what made me get into this.