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Empathy, empathy, empathy. This will get you past barriers and will improve your communication greatly. I believe we must regard peoples minds with as much detail as we afford their bodies.

I don't care what anybody believes. NO BADGES. The U.S.A. can do what they want. I don't ever want to wear a badge with the only exception being a formal dress uniform. If I want a badge I'll go to Depot in Regina and get a gun to go along with it.

I offer much respect to you stranger. You have chosen an honorable path. Few North Americans would pull their heads out of their hind quarters long enough to see the work that needs to be done, and to actually do something about it, instead of just saying something about it. Take care and have fun. "There will be times when you are called upon to comfort the afflicted, and there will be times when you are called upon to afflict the comfortable. Just remember that it's about them, not about you."

@ about 20 I started going bald on top, the whole "island" thing. I shaved with clippers, no guard. Everyone loves it, especially my g-friend. So, it's either shave my head and look hot, or grow it out and look like a middle age impotent man. The only hair that I'm growing or grooming is under my head not above. Or mabye I should grow it out and do one of those super sexy comb overs.

I am not in the forces as of yet. I require a Bio and Chem High school upgrade before I am able to enlist. I wasn't the happiest kid in school. Part of the reason I am starting now @ 27 instead of then @ 17. I have had good times and a lot of experience though. I worked as an exterminator while in school and for a year after Grad, (CHEMICAL WARFARE!), then I got on as a Security Officer with MB Lotteries.

Ridryder, I have and will certainly be using the search function here and exploring, just wanted personal opinions. Thank you for yours, I truly appreciate it. I definitely agree that a swift kick in the right direction of focus is sometimes needed. I have always had the encouragement to follow my dreams but not the focus. If I had got a swift quick at the right time I would be a ten year veteran and not just realize how far behind I am. Focus on what you know you want to do and do it. Ignore the distractions of life and go!

Thanks for the well wishes. Casino work is not so fun were I am after eight years under management who would gladly replace us with child labour or the infirm if it were legal. Alot of good things at the club though and they are very supportive of higher learning, they did reimburse for my EMR certificate and just paid for the Future of EMS seminar here in town. Got in a clinical rotation @ a local Emerg. dept. Also learnt to interpret 12 lead ECG. It's just that as far as opportunities @ Lotteries are few and I don't believe they will get together and hire or train us to be official EMR's at the casino never mind PCP level. the two casinos in town are licensed for over 4000 each, but they are inept at marketing, so we only see about 2000 a day, maybe 3000 on a busy weekend. Although there are definitely many interesting and unique people (I'm convinced some are aliens, ) and stories. And ya, I've dreamed of the cruise ship gig too. My buddy quit the casino and is a bartender on one, bastard's having the time of his life! It'll probably be at least three years before I end up in Afghanistan, but maybe sooner if things go really really bad for us and our allies. But I have no doubt we will be there long after I get Cpl. rank. Who knows, we might even start a new base and stay. I can definitely imagine what goes on in your casino EMT_WOLFE. Yours sounds like a REAL casino and not the flashy adult arcade I wander around aimlessly in. :wink:

I am wondering, other than motivational drive or "Git'r done", what do you old dogs believe would be good intro to ems or what do you guys consider the proper start to an EMS career. Such as courses/ education, volunteer, rural vs. urban, clinical vs field?

Hey all! My name is Scott, 27 and I am employed by Manitoba Lotteries Corp. as a Security Officer for the Casinos of Winnipeg. We are all Basic Rescuers with about 22 Officers trained as AED/ BCLS and O2 therapy providers. I have completed an EMR course at Red River College Dec. 2004. I have been actively pursuing knowledge and reviewing texts and journals while dealing with a pyrogenic granuloma on the side of my foot and then Achalasia treated laparoscopically in January. I am now healthy and training for a career as a Medical Technician with the Canadian Armed Forces. I figure our soldiers will appreciate my efforts more than all the spoiled ignorant fat humans of North America. After having some fun running myself into the ground I would ultimately like to become an PA. But for now I want to be outside. And shooting stuff is always fun. Bring it on. Please support the Paramedic Association Of Manitoba http://www.paramedicsofmanitoba.ca/