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I looked into becoming a volunteer firefighter after I got out of the Marines, but honestly the extremely long training required and the extremely high potentia
by ryanx435 9y ago
I looked into becoming a volunteer firefighter after I got out of the Marines, but honestly the extremely long training required and the extremely high potential for PTSD from fire calls gone bad put me off from it.
- DanielBMarkham 9y agoWhen I got out of the Corps, I did some freelance writing here and there: local newspapers, regional/national magazines, etc. One of my first stories was with some local firefighters that responded to a car wreck. When they got there, there was a woman trapped in the wreck. Then it caught fire. There was nothing they could do but watch the woman burn to death. Decided then and there that firefighting wasn't in the cards for me.
- rattray 9y agoWhat do you do now?
- DanielBMarkham 9y agoDeveloper team training. Everything from coding to requirements. I was always good with computers. Even when I was writing, I ended up installing a computer network for the local newspaper. Eventually I just gave up and went into computers full-time.
- dba7dba 9y agoLos Angeles FD has firefighters earning regular pay AND extra pay for having PTSD if you were involved in a particularly bad fire. Not sure how much that extra pay is.
- ryanx435 9y agoSeeing how much PTSD has affected some of my marine buddies, I do not believe that any amount of extra pay is worth the horror that it can cause
- monkmartinez 9y agoThe fires don't bother me much. It is the calls involving children that just eat me up... definitely have some stories and sights that I would love to delete.