Pros
Working for the company can be fun sometimes. More freedom than the traditional minimum wage job. If you want to deal with the headache of being a broker and there's a good opportunity to become one somewhere that needs one, you can make a decent living if you're cool with working all day every day.
Cons
Around 7pm the night before, you'll find out tomorrow's scheduled shift might start at 4am or 11am or anytime in between or you might just be on call. Your shift could be 3 hours long or 12 hours long. Have fun having a budget with this job. I could go on and on. Organization is abysmal. A coworker found out after a transfer that his patient has flesh eating disease. Thanks for letting us know dispatch! We had a weight limit of 250lb per crew and wasn't uncommon to show up to a call where patient was 250-320lb and we'd typically be pressured to just get it done or request the assistance of hospital staff when a second transfer unit should be utilized. My advice to new graduates of paramedics and fire is if you feel absolutely compelled to get "field experience" and "buff your resume", is to limit your hours here as much as possible while maintaining another job. Working here every other Friday for a year is the same as being one of their "full time employees". This kind of work doesn't buff your resume as much as it reinforces lazy habits and fuel your frustration with this line of work. Never let this place be your primary employment.
