In a previous podcast we discussed career mobility. What we found was that there is truly very little opportunity for someone to work as an EMT or as a paramedic for the length of a career without needing a second job or changing careers entirely. We tend to bring people into the industry, train them for the equivalent of five weeks, and then send them on their way hoping that they’ll find whatever vague destiny awaits them. You see this romanticized in movies when a character is placed on a sheet of ice or a small boat and sent away from their village to live a better life. In the movies, of course, this tactic works well. But this career, this profession, is not the movies.