Someone with experence no one under 25 please. This is a serious thing with me.
I am honestly lost. I feel mabie im having a mid life crises at 23...
My parents sucks at advice nor do they support ****. Damn hippies.
I am 23 years old and 24 is comming next year. I am still making 10 an hr.... i haven't started college nor can i concintrait on it due to my long years of depression. I am a wishy washy bastard too... There is a dispatcher job in california that i could make over 30k, but that process takes 6months or more sometimes. I like moding cars and my parents are wanting me to move out. I am confused and lost.
What the hell do i do?
No retarded posts and whorism please i hate talking like this becuase it makes me feel like a *****
I need advice
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JESTER
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Well lets see where to start. College education is good to have. I never finished. Associaets degree of applied science for fire protection technology. Family members are the worlds worst to keep you from doing something. They dont want you out making mistakes, screwing up your life. But that is the way, great people are definded. By their mistakes, and what they made of them. You got to do your own thing. Not live your life for your parents.
Anyway, dispatching is a good job. But it is also a curse to behold. You have to be cut out for it. But you dont know if you are until you do it. I didnt know until I got into it, but I was cut out for it. And do a great job if I do say so myself.
It's hard getting on in cali dispatch center. You got to have a clean background, a good financial record, and not be a dope head. You need to be able to type pretty good. Have to know how to deal with the public. We are a public service provider.
You have to be able to handle stress, and alot of it at times. We go from being bored to extreme times of business and stress in a matter of seconds.
Fire dispatch is probally on of the easier of the three, fire, law enforcment, and medical. But most fire dispatch have to do medical also, but not all.
Thirty thousand is pretty good money, especially for someone who is making ten bucks an hour. Sounds like me when I started at my first center. I have been dispatching seven years and am only making twenty seven thousand.
I say go for it. Put in your application and see what happenes. Most people do not get hired the first time out. But keep applyining. You may get discouraged but it takes time. Get up with the director of the center and go do some sit time. Check it out, and see if you think it is something you might like to try.
Anyway, dispatching is a good job. But it is also a curse to behold. You have to be cut out for it. But you dont know if you are until you do it. I didnt know until I got into it, but I was cut out for it. And do a great job if I do say so myself.
It's hard getting on in cali dispatch center. You got to have a clean background, a good financial record, and not be a dope head. You need to be able to type pretty good. Have to know how to deal with the public. We are a public service provider.
You have to be able to handle stress, and alot of it at times. We go from being bored to extreme times of business and stress in a matter of seconds.
Fire dispatch is probally on of the easier of the three, fire, law enforcment, and medical. But most fire dispatch have to do medical also, but not all.
Thirty thousand is pretty good money, especially for someone who is making ten bucks an hour. Sounds like me when I started at my first center. I have been dispatching seven years and am only making twenty seven thousand.
I say go for it. Put in your application and see what happenes. Most people do not get hired the first time out. But keep applyining. You may get discouraged but it takes time. Get up with the director of the center and go do some sit time. Check it out, and see if you think it is something you might like to try.
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JESTER
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Oh, I almost forgot, http://www.911jobforums.com go to the dispatch section. Lot of good people in there that have been in this way more than me.
You have to have a strong will, and be able to leave this stuff at work. It is hard, especially when your patient you are dealing with on the phone codes on you. Having to talk to wifes that woke up to find their husbands had passed away during the night. Speaking with mothers who small children had wondered off and dround in the lake.
Two that I still remember, was the poor store clerk that got shot five times. He held it together, and gave me all the information he had about the POS that shot him and robbed the store. He lived, thankfully.
Had a mother leave her two kids in the car while she ran into teh school to pick her third child up. The three year old set the car on fire playing with a liter. It made it out. The other didn't. The doors ended up getting locked. Mother severly burned trying to get to her baby. That was a bad day.
But there are good days. You can help alot of people. Help put the bad guys behind bars. help the fire department save someones home and belongings. Help the give cpr instructions to a family member so they can help a loved one.
Anyway, end ramble.
You have to have a strong will, and be able to leave this stuff at work. It is hard, especially when your patient you are dealing with on the phone codes on you. Having to talk to wifes that woke up to find their husbands had passed away during the night. Speaking with mothers who small children had wondered off and dround in the lake.
Two that I still remember, was the poor store clerk that got shot five times. He held it together, and gave me all the information he had about the POS that shot him and robbed the store. He lived, thankfully.
Had a mother leave her two kids in the car while she ran into teh school to pick her third child up. The three year old set the car on fire playing with a liter. It made it out. The other didn't. The doors ended up getting locked. Mother severly burned trying to get to her baby. That was a bad day.
But there are good days. You can help alot of people. Help put the bad guys behind bars. help the fire department save someones home and belongings. Help the give cpr instructions to a family member so they can help a loved one.
Anyway, end ramble.
clean background (check) i was a unpolular kid in HS but everyone knew who i was... kinda scary o_o;..... I have never done drugs im clean as a whisle. But the problem is i don't know if i can handle it. I don't want to have to go through all that and not know if i can handle it 
Oh i remember when im understress sometimes i can't talk right, like my brother. Its very annoying. My damn parents they just couldn't stop when she was having a baby... ****ers :rolleyes
Oh i remember when im understress sometimes i can't talk right, like my brother. Its very annoying. My damn parents they just couldn't stop when she was having a baby... ****ers :rolleyes
Well, my friend, I suggest moving across the country and going to school. The "fear" from trying to survive will pretty much erase all of this caked-on emotional distress.
Think of it as cleaning a throttle body. Its a pain in the *** but it MUST BE DONE! And in the end you're glad you did.
-Jesda
(I've never cleaned a throttle body before.)
Think of it as cleaning a throttle body. Its a pain in the *** but it MUST BE DONE! And in the end you're glad you did.
-Jesda
(I've never cleaned a throttle body before.)
Jesda wrote:Well, my friend, I suggest moving across the country and going to school. The "fear" from trying to survive will pretty much erase all of this caked-on emotional distress.
Think of it as cleaning a throttle body. Its a pain in the *** but it MUST BE DONE! And in the end you're glad you did.
-Jesda
(I've never cleaned a throttle body before.)
lmao you and your posts. I laugh everytime i read them
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JESTER
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Where do you work now?
And I dont talk to well myself. Stress can screw with you, but you get to where you feed off of it after awhile. Besides, fire sdispatch is a whole different ball of wax then what I do. I would darn near kill to get a straight fire dispatch job. But, I am more intergrated in to the law enforcement end now.
Hey, you ever thought about being an EMT or a fire fighter? They can be very rewarding careers. Think about fire fighting. I use to do it as a volunteer for like six years. Best job in the world. Lots of excitment.
EMT, I know lots of places around here hire basics or intermediates. Lot less schooling than paramedics. They pair you with a paramedic, and you work under them, doing the same stuff, for slightly less pay. You can get your basic at a community college in like two months or so, going two nights a week.
Heck, for that matter, ever thought about being a police officer. The schooling isn't that hard, as long as you are in decent shape. Basicly be able to run a mile and a half in like 12 or 15 minutes??? Something like that. It really isn't bad. I have several friends that teach the rookie school at our community college.
Dude, you should check into this stuff. Pay may not be the best, but government work has good benniifts. Good insurance, paid for you. Retire at thirty years or sooner depending where your at. I can actually retire when I am 50, started at 20.
And I dont talk to well myself. Stress can screw with you, but you get to where you feed off of it after awhile. Besides, fire sdispatch is a whole different ball of wax then what I do. I would darn near kill to get a straight fire dispatch job. But, I am more intergrated in to the law enforcement end now.
Hey, you ever thought about being an EMT or a fire fighter? They can be very rewarding careers. Think about fire fighting. I use to do it as a volunteer for like six years. Best job in the world. Lots of excitment.
EMT, I know lots of places around here hire basics or intermediates. Lot less schooling than paramedics. They pair you with a paramedic, and you work under them, doing the same stuff, for slightly less pay. You can get your basic at a community college in like two months or so, going two nights a week.
Heck, for that matter, ever thought about being a police officer. The schooling isn't that hard, as long as you are in decent shape. Basicly be able to run a mile and a half in like 12 or 15 minutes??? Something like that. It really isn't bad. I have several friends that teach the rookie school at our community college.
Dude, you should check into this stuff. Pay may not be the best, but government work has good benniifts. Good insurance, paid for you. Retire at thirty years or sooner depending where your at. I can actually retire when I am 50, started at 20.
how nice job corpse seems but then i look at this factor
*****Low income *****
Legal U.S. resident
Out of school OR under employed/unemployed
Free of behavior problems that would prohibit self or others from benefiting from the program.
Not using illegal drugs now. This does not apply to drugs prescribed by a health care professional.
Since i am under the age of 25 and any "government" type programs require my parents income.. Well they make over the requirement of poor. They are middle-middle class.
*****Low income *****
Legal U.S. resident
Out of school OR under employed/unemployed
Free of behavior problems that would prohibit self or others from benefiting from the program.
Not using illegal drugs now. This does not apply to drugs prescribed by a health care professional.
Since i am under the age of 25 and any "government" type programs require my parents income.. Well they make over the requirement of poor. They are middle-middle class.
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keepingthe240
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sideshowbob wrote:I deleted my own posts above. Should of listened
i did listen man. I read all your posts. The metal working school seemed cool. But im no good at measuring things. But i do thank you for that input
I don't meen to insult you... but are you 25 or older? that seemed like a immature way of doing it... now i forgot what websites you posted
