“I just don’t want to do it anymore…..I can’t do it anymore” I said as I stood across the kitchen bench from my father as he sat there confused with a look on his face like many that I have seen before, when I explain that I simply cannot be a Paramedic anymore.
“Why?” he asks. – “Unless you’ve been there, you just wouldn’t understand.” I say.
That’s about as far as the conversation goes.
I know the look. It’s the look that a lot have given. The look that says something in their heads like “But it’s a good paying Government job! It’s secure, you studied for years to get the qualifications, and you play an important role in society! Why the hell would you just throw it all in?!!!”
Well for over 14yrs now, I have proudly donned the uniform, but I have to say that in the…
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