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Young People in the Fire Service
I am 20 Years old and have been involved in the both career and volunteer Fire and EMS since I was 18. In my Two and a half years in this business I have noticed that I am have a very difficult time staying friends with people my own age. I feel that this job has made me grow up much faster than them. I find myself getting very frustrated with them. I spend my day at work running calls going to fires, car crashes, and medical calls , and for my friends my age their biggest concern in life is trying to find someone old enough to buy them alcohol. For example, 2 weeks ago I spend 2 hours on the freeway in the snow at 2am at a big MVA, the next day my friend tells me.. "last night sucked the guy who was supposed to buy us beer backed out on us and we couldn't drink it was the worst night ever"... And after what I spent the night doing it just frustrated me to hear what they consider a "bad night". I find myself getting so angry at them with their silly teenager drama. After going to a fatal structure fire listening to my friends issues about her boyfriend not calling her enough seems really pointless and stupid. Is it wrong that I am getting so frustrated with them? Are there any other young people in the fire service who are having a similar feelings?
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Comment by Mike Coleman on December 4, 2008 at 2:41pm
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Be careful to not allow yourself to get so caught up in emergency services that you lose your youth. I am 40 years old and have been in the fire service for 13 years. If I were to only dwell on the seriousness of the calls I have made, I could easily become a very somber(and boring) person to be around. It is easy to allow yourself to get somber when you face death and destruction on so many calls that you forget life is all about the little things too. People are born and people die every day but you have only one life to live.
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Comment by Scott on December 4, 2008 at 10:51am
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nah ive been doing this since i hit 16 as a jr the majority of my friends are other firefighter and i feel about the same way with there being alot bigger problems then our friends lets go get drunk
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Comment by lutan1 on December 4, 2008 at 4:38am
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Been there done that!
There's no doubt that it changes you and your outlook- your whole perception of what is "bad" (ie: no beer versus a fatal accident!) changes.
I found I drifted away all of my friends, but found new ones with a common interest....
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