• MonkeMischief
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        10 months ago

        “Do a job that you love and that’ll substitute as half your pay! 😁”

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      10 months ago

      EMT; I’ve heard that I’m about to get a raise to $17/hr but I think it may just be a carrot to keep me there (currently make $16).

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        10 months ago

        It’s so fucked. I know there are different levels, but the McDonald’s out here in California starts at $20/hr.

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          10 months ago

          Yep, I could walk into a McDonald’s here and earn at least the same depending on the position. I knew that going into it though.

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      10 months ago

      This right here. I took an EMT course at the local community college in 1999, then learned that the pay was minimum wage. Never got a job as an EMT because I needed more money to live.

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        10 months ago

        $50 per call but you can bet the patient is being billed $5k minimum for the ride, probably pocketed by insurance agencies or the hospital execs.

        I can’t understand how people are EMTs and why there haven’t been riots over this, but God bless them.