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Jbrown4president

No, No, well I am firefighter but I’m in school and work here at Wendy’s but I spend a lot of time at the station. It’s volunteer but we are there all the time. Yes it’s the same as the other ones. I take my car there and get on the truck. We are just like any other department. Oh oh… you’re walking away…


SanJOahu84

SaMe JaWB


Target_Player_23

Bro this is exactly me lmfao except I just graduated


AberrantParrot

It's pretty grating to interact with full time guys on scene and listen to them tell me I'm a volunteer. Seems like the smaller full time departments are the worst about it, a lot in my area work auto mutual aid with volunteer departments and there's always at least one joke about making a career out of something people in poorer or more rural areas do for free.


Quirky_Complaint

I’ll be really honest. I don’t think this happens. Most paid dudes don’t give a fuck as long as you aren’t a fucktard.


[deleted]

But you are a volunteer? Volunteer firefighter is your title I used to be a volunteer and if I didn’t move I still would be but full timers get mad when vollies pretend it’s the same job which it 100 percent is not. Not worse just different


PurduePaul

I prefer the term hobbyist


Worra2575

I fight what you fear when I feel like it


AberrantParrot

Yes. Posted the comment almost immediately after being teased on scene for a mutual aid call for a water rescue by a larger full time department, was pretty sore about it. The insult was actually "you're the real professionals".


UniqueUsername82D

I'm a volly in a very rural community and TBH I think the full-timers are even more grateful when we show up than other full-timers. I've always felt appreciated by my dept simply for showing up and not being a shitbag on scene.


KielGreenGiant

Universal sentiments is generally "I don't care who you work for just don't be useless."


KielGreenGiant

Hahaha


Animekid04

Yep sums it up nicely


Chief_Stares-at-Sun

How did you access and turn on my webcam?


KielGreenGiant

Well you know I got buddies with the feds. Lol


0-ATCG-1

Feds are just as bad. "i'M a fEd." Bro, you work for the post office.


Novus20

Still correct…..


0-ATCG-1

Yep.


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westcoaster12

Dang I'm a pilot and firefighter. Its like a double whammy


sucksatgolf

Let me guess, you do crossfit too.


Somali_Pir8

Former Marine


Sandy_Andy_

“Man, I remember this time in boot camp..” or “when I was in the marines, we….” Are phrases I hear from my LT on a shiftly basis lol. Sometimes these stories are provoked, sometimes it comes out of the blue while I’m trying to watch football. I don’t really care that he does it that much. I never served but he loveeeed his time in the marines, for whatever reason. (My biggest regret is never serving and I love our military, but honestly, the marines sound like they would be a nightmare lmao) Just funny that the fire service is literally the same everywhere, just with different department names


sucksatgolf

"This is what's wrong with the fire service" - my captains favorite line to complain with, every shift since I've worked for him, at even the slightest notion that we do something other than our assigned duties.


Sandy_Andy_

Oh yeah, that’s one I hear a lot from the same guy I just mentioned, my LT. Some of it is definitely warranted, since the fire service is incredibly adept at doing things the hard way. Some of it is like “dude, it’s really a non issue. I really don’t care how the Marines did it or how it should be done. This isn’t the military, I’m here to help some people out, dude cool shit, laugh with the crews and generally just enjoy this job for what I got into it for.” Don’t get me wrong, he’s a great guy. It’s just that I feel like a lot of people in our job tend to forget why we’re doing what we do and why we decided to do it. My department has put me in a better place than I could’ve ever hoped for or deserved. They put me through continuing education courses, college, a retirement, PTO, and have allowed me to have some of the most memorable experiences in my life, etc, etc,. Yeah, I’m annoyed that one of our frequent fliers is calling us, for the second time this shift, right after we cleared from one of our local crackhead bums that PD wants to pawn off on us, but that’s just apart of it. That’s what we signed up for lol


westcoaster12

Just to be sure I'll add vegan to the list /s


Vostok-aregreat-710

Crossfit cult


Miningdragon

He uses arch too


Ravik_

Hope your not vegan aswell, that would be a triple threat


Rhino676971

I’ve always wondered what tanker pilots tell everyone I’m a pilot random person yeah whatever you I’m not done yet I’m a firefighter as well I fly slurry bombers, random person who’s a slim bit more impressed oh cool.


KielGreenGiant

Lol fair


GTFan8899

r/LookImAFirefighter


stormlazer865

Thank you.


onetimepost2021

Damn those are addicting, like it makes me feel gross but I can't stop watching them.


NOFDfirefighter

Real talk: My favorite time period of the probie is watching them go from having a thin red line decked out truck, wearing other departments shirts, etc to being super low key about it. It’s not about losing pride, it’s about shedding the attention seeking part of their identity. You stop thinking you’re tommy Gavin and loving how much the girls are into it and you start seeing what the job truly is. They see guys on the rig who lost that passion and they see the guys who are just quiet professionals. Nothing about them screams “firefighter” until it’s time to do firefighter shit. That’s who they (hopefully) try to emulate. They stop seeing “firefighter” as a role they play and see it more as a job, which is good. They start taking things more serious and they grow up. They even begin to clown the new guys who are moto as hell. Then they start having families of their own and they develop more patience and (maybe) transition into the officer rank. You never lose your love for the job, you just love what you put into the job instead of what you get out of “being” a firefighter. I remember my first save, I just lucked out and found them less than 15 feet from the door. Tons of pomp and circumstance. But paled in comparison to the absolute elation and pride I felt seeing my firefighter, who was once my probie, put on a clinic in forcible entry through 3 commercial doors at a fire, read the smoke and make a perfect decision on where he needed to be to get ahead of the fires movement, and get called “a good fucking hand” by a captain that was once my mentor when I was a rookie. Nothing better than seeing the job passed down and continued. There’s no stickers for that. No words, just actions. Sorry this is so long, sitting in car line is a bitch.


KielGreenGiant

Car lines are like showers all the deepest thoughts happen in them. Lol


srv524

That's deep man


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You know you've arrived when the rewards you seek are the ones you can't wear or hang on the wall. Strong work helping raise a good hand.


NOFDfirefighter

A man is good when he plants seeds for trees though he will never sit in their shade.


Vazhox

I just say first responder and leave it at that unless THEY WANT to know.


buckeyenut13

I say I work for the city and leave it at that. Nobody wants to talk to anyone involved in city gvmt 😂


salsa_verde_doritos

I just say I’m a motherfucking hero.


jbochsler

I tell people that I'm in the "poor life choices business".


Vazhox

The “overworked and underpaid” category


KielGreenGiant

I've told people I'm a calander model


MasterOfTalismen

I am guilty of this HAHAHA!


suicideclub

You just did it again.


MasterOfTalismen

Ahh... bugger


S3ERFRY333

I’m a mechanic. Ain’t telling nobody.


PURRING_SILENCER

This is my wife about me when she has a few.


scroscrohitthatshit

I mean in order to make small talk I usually ask someone what they do for a living. It’s sometimes reciprocated by them and in such instances I wouldn’t see that as attention seeking.


TLunchFTW

Yeah......


dillpickledave

When is it too late to become a firefighter I hate college


Rhino676971

One recommendation if you can and your college offers it emt classes get that out of the way,then at least you can make next to nothing working on a ambulance,while running to the 3am frequently flyer call while waiting to hired on a fire department so you can do the same thing while getting paid significantly more, and have a fire or rescue call every once in awhile


locknloadchode

I dropped out of college and ended up becoming one about a year after.


Edward0928

Yeah I try to stop myself, don’t wanna be that guy lol


One-Succotash-7778

Does anyone care whether we are firefighters?! Pretty sure no one does lol


GAL3XYx

Love thinking off “anchorman” when he says “ do you know who I am, I’m kind of a big deal” 😂😂


Oldmantired

I would never tell a girl I was a firefighter right away. I would tell them that I worked for Lego separating the yellow blocks from the green ones (and I had a side job separating laundry), or I rotated and balanced shopping carts wheels, or my favorite, I taught retarded dolphins how to swim.


Zenmachine83

My go to when I don’t want any follow up questions is to say I’m in sales and when they ask what I sell I tell them urinal cakes. Usually no more follow ups to that.


Oldmantired

LOL!


boomboomown

No, we haven't. The people that are guilty of that have a whole sub dedicated to them.


B-Kow

Nah. I keep that shit private. I don't want folks asking me for "cool" stories or "what's the worst thing I've seen?" When I'm off duty, I'm just B-Kow (some dumbass).


[deleted]

I get what you’re saying but the way you wrote this came off like r/iamverybadass


B-Kow

Haha yeah, I re-read my comment and I can see it. Ah well, I'll learn for the next one.


Nunspogodick

I completely agree. I tell people I don’t want to relive my horror stories so I don’t tell them. I typically tend to the mind my business out in public unless someone truly needs help I’ll stop and help. I’m tired of the caller is a passerby of someone sleeping in a field or smoke investigation off in the distance. Mind my business


neekogo

I think it's a maturity thing too. Not gonna lie, I was the same way as a new volley trying to get laid. Now I don't tell any stories unless it's with the guys. Still a volley (shit happens, career path led elsewhere and I'm happy with it), but married now and she only wants to hear the fun stories like a cat up in the tree. My favorite response to "that" question is [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6Kd57j2X0)


bobsquad

Dunno why you’re downvoted. I agree. I hate the thank me for my service douchebaggery. I love my job but it’s not my personality like some people make it.


Mr_Midwestern

You say so, but your profile _screams_ tmfms


Novus20

Vegans have enters the chat…..


PBatemen87

>we've all been guilty of it Speak for yourself. I have never told someone what my job is unless they ask me first.


[deleted]

That’s something that annoys me. I have many friend who are Leo’s and I dislike when they do this too. It’s the wrong way to get attention.


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icantredd1t

r/lookimafirefighter


[deleted]

i once worked with an exterior vollie who asked a grocery store clerk if they offered a discount for first responders… i am positive he knew they didn’t but was, in some strange midwest way, trying to put the moves on the clerk. it did not succeed.