My brother's a paramedic. From what I can gather, 50% of the job is sheer boredom... Sitting around waiting for something to happen. 45% of it being a taxi driv

My brother's a paramedic. From what I can gather, 50% of the job is sheer boredom... Sitting around waiting for something to happen. 45% of it being a taxi driver for people who don't really need an ambulance. 5% of it is being calm as you deal with blood and puke and failing bodies and screaming relatives. And a tiny bit of it is ignoring their safety training and climbing down ravines or crawling in to burning upturned cars. He gets paid the big bucks for the 5%. Occasionally i'll ask how his day was and i'll get a burning car kinda story and then he'll ask how my day was. "I'm an overpaid typist."