Growing up, I was taught to go to college, get that job with benefits and have a pension. Its my 14th year serving the City of Detroit as a paramedic. I gave up a lot of opportunities so I could stay with this job and retire by time I am 53yrs old. Today a fire service that's been around for 180yrs has been forced to close their doors. The fire fighters of Pontiac are now jobless. Our own city council are discussing privatization of the Detroit EMS. This is the most dysfunctional job in the world and has stress like no other, but its what I know. This is who I am and I am tired of this world destroying everything I struggle to create for myself! If EMS folds I will forever wonder what could have been if I took that job in Alaska, tried out as a rescue diver for the Coast Gaurd , went into the DEA as a Border Patrol Paramedic, or if I had taken that job for Alpena fire department. This world makes NO sense any more.
Maybe its time I pick up the family and relocate out west some where, before I am to old to enjoy the benefits of living out west and this last dream of mine is ruined by trying to do the responsible thing...
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