northernboy

thanks guys, really helpful & much appreciated I was in Pet and then Edmonton and of course here and there with training/exercises, never went to the sand box. Never did anything special, a bored medic is a good medic and all that... I have been a long haired civvy EMT-p for a few yrs now in Cal-gree. Not really interested in the military anymore, was a positive experience but that scratch has been itched so to say. I am sending off a resume to IPS as after a brief chat as they seem to have a lot of work on & a big outfit to get a bit of experience with. Will use up a long block of holiday time for a contract to try it out and see if its for me. You guys have been great, thanks again

thanks gang, very insightful. I have been an Alberta registered EMT-P for a few yrs fulltime in a city. In the military I spent most of my time in an evac platoon tasked out to combat arms teams. Most of that work was in reality sprains/strians, general outpatient stuff, colds/flus, injections, dealing with soldiers rotten feet and the occasional suture and very very rarely serious trauma when it hit the fan as I never deployed overseas to the two way firing range. I worked part time (unoficially) as an EMT to get ambulance experience in my free time before growing my hair a bit longer and doing the EMT-P course. Industrial sounds very similar to the military.

thanks guys, thats helpul. registered in Al-berda, looking at U of C, allready have 1.5 yrs worth of credits as have been slowly plugging away on courses here and there. I figured $600/day was the more likely number, everyone who mentioned $800 had never done industrial work in the patch. Yes, thinking of my options in the long term, fact is I really like working as a medic but I cannot stand night shfts, I have always struggled to stay awake past 11pm, was one of reasons why I left the forces, all that night fighting... Even when i was 18 and in the military lots of the boys would be able to party all night, not me, frickin useless past 11pm. I can't see it getting better when I am 45 and still stuck doing long nights and flexing. Was thinking of a couple options, university, or doing industrial contract work for a few weeks in, few weeks out but still doing oncall medic work in the city (days mostly) to keep skills up. That appeals to my lifestyle of mt biking in summer and boarding in winter was looking into doing a chiro or physio degree so U of C for pre-req's as know a few people who do both and have used both for different problems and they seem very happy with their work. Not really intereted in medicine, most doctors I have met seem pretty grumpy and they often work horrible hours.

Hi gang, I have been qualified as an EMT-P for a few yrs, prior to that I spent 3-yrs in the Military as a med tech but didn't do any special other than outpatient work/Fd amb (as in no combat tours). I am looking at going to University fulltime so I wanted to drop myself down to part time with the city and supplement that with industrial work. The question is when I look at the job offers many of them say to put forward my salary expectations. I have heard from people that the going rate is $600-800/day but this is usually from people when I push them on it they have never actually done any industrial work. I have taken a bunch of industrial day course stuff like H2S alive etc to hopefully make me more hireable So I have a few questions for anyone who has actually worked up north not if your neighbours friends brothers have 1. What is the typical rate I should be asking? hourly of daily? 2. Is there really a labour shortage, I see lots of job adverts but are these companies pulliing resumes so they can bid on projects or are there that many jobs available 3. Who paysfor travel as most of them seem to be GP or Ft Mac? Do you fly or drive? 4. how long are the typical rotations? 2-3wks 5. I would suspect the work is similar to being in a military field amb, lots of hurry up and wait, but no canvasor MRE's and little chance of an IED 6. is the pay normally a flat day rate or is it hourly then OT for more? 7. which are good comapanies to work for thank you