Mine is fresh highschool graduates getting 2 weeks of training to go work acute, all-male forensic psychiatry. We’re taking criminally insane men who are unsafe to put on a unit with criminally insane women.
…and they would send fresh high school graduates (often girls because hospitals in general tend to be female-dominated) in the yoga pants and club makeup they think are proffessional because they literally have 0 previous work experience to sit suicide watch for criminally insane rapists who said they were suicidal because they knew they would send some 18y/o who doesn’t know any better to sit with them. It went about how you would expect the hundreds of times I watched it happen.
My favorite float technician was the 60 year old guy who was super gassy and looked like an off-season Santa. Everybody hated that guy because they said he was super lazy but he would sit suicide watch all fucking shift without complaining and he almost never failed to dissapoint a sex pest who thought they were gonna get some eye candy (or worse).
What’s your example?
That must be regional. My dad did EMS on the side - he once had no less than 5 jobs; no really - and it was easy for a fireman to get into but added to his retraining/recert load. And he was always recertifying.
They’re not doctors: they want to keep your body alive (and ideally brain too) so you get to a doctor and a team. They’re really great and their bus is usually outfitted well enough, but their two main skills are CPR and a Siren, I think. Plus a desire to help people for a pittance and cope with the trauma of someone dying on-board, which is second only to arriving at a scene and finding your best friend was killed by a drunk who’s trying to start his car and drive home.
… so my dad quit EMS the next day.