Re: Re: EMS Pay....my head is going to explode

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They can moan all they want...point is, they are paid a professioanls

salary in keeping with the level of their education and responsibility.

Joe Bob brain surgeon might whine because his payouts from his HMO

patients have dropped from 16 grand a case to 13 grand, but its hard to

feel too sorry for him. For what its worth, my wife doesn't feel like

shes compensated enough either....but at upwards of $30 an hour, she can

afford it. My only choices are to A) Watch my Ps and Qs with her, so

she'll continue to support me in the manner to which I've become

accustomed, or follow the thousands of my brothers and sisters out of

the profession I love into something far less satisfying, but far more

lucrative. This is the first time in my married life that I've made more

money than my wife, (who, incidently has less education than I do) but

its taken getting shot at regularly to do it, and since I like all the

pieces on my cute, pink body right where they are, this gravy train will

move on without me at some point 8 or so months from now. Then what? I

know what I want to do, which is go back to my life as a street medic.

For how long? At what point do I say to myself " , you ain't getting

any younger, and its time you made more than 11 bucks an hour " ?

> Funny thing is if you sit with a bunch of doctors and or nurses even

for any

> time and chat about pay they moan and grown too.

>

> Money like good looks can never be over abundant, in my case I have

little

> of either.

>

> Louis N. Molino, Sr., CET

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<Its not about me ace....>

<You can call me names all day long pal, but that's reality, and it

doesn't take days off.>

, Ace here...I don't recall calling you any names in my previous posting

and if I did, I am truly sorry.

I would encourage you to go re-read your post...it is all about you. Everything

you posted in that was about you, your ability to not make your defined level of

" decent " wage, your wife making more than you, and your total disgust at the

non-checkbook prying people who run EMS organizations.

On missing the point, I don't believe I did. It is just that we have two

choices in life: go through it being miserable or go through it being

happy...the better choice (and it is a choice), in my opinion is to be happy.

The jobs I quoted at 33K or near 50K are 24/48 hour format jobs with NO

overtime...meaning you are only away from your family for 1/3 of the time...not

most of it.

The saving money and living within your means arguement is not a total cop-out.

There is nothing in our society that says you should be able to make whatever

you desire to spend...that is a myth of our society today...but it is in no way

a right. The reason I say live within your means is because of my own personal

experience and those of some of my co-workers.

When someone leaves my organization where they made $34K base and another 15K in

other employment and goes to a job where they made $58K last year(just on their

primary, full-time job) why do they still have to work hours for me to the tune

of an additional $15K? Before they left, $49K was adequate...then, when they

made more than that in their Full-time job, $64K is now what they have to

make...and guess what, it is still not enough. They are working other jobs

beside this one part-time...

My point is, again, if you are not happy and cannot live within your means no

amount of money is going to fix that. You are an obviously intelligent man,

strike out on your own in EMS (if that is what you love) and do what you love,

your way, paying what you want...again...control your own destiny. Don't

complain that the people running EMS are all messed up...start up yourself, run

it right...and drive the wrong ones out of the business...that is truly

improving this career field...and your own lot.

Dudley (a.k.a. ace)

[Guest guest]

<Its not about me ace....>

<You can call me names all day long pal, but that's reality, and it

doesn't take days off.>

, Ace here...I don't recall calling you any names in my previous posting

and if I did, I am truly sorry.

I would encourage you to go re-read your post...it is all about you. Everything

you posted in that was about you, your ability to not make your defined level of

" decent " wage, your wife making more than you, and your total disgust at the

non-checkbook prying people who run EMS organizations.

On missing the point, I don't believe I did. It is just that we have two

choices in life: go through it being miserable or go through it being

happy...the better choice (and it is a choice), in my opinion is to be happy.

The jobs I quoted at 33K or near 50K are 24/48 hour format jobs with NO

overtime...meaning you are only away from your family for 1/3 of the time...not

most of it.

The saving money and living within your means arguement is not a total cop-out.

There is nothing in our society that says you should be able to make whatever

you desire to spend...that is a myth of our society today...but it is in no way

a right. The reason I say live within your means is because of my own personal

experience and those of some of my co-workers.

When someone leaves my organization where they made $34K base and another 15K in

other employment and goes to a job where they made $58K last year(just on their

primary, full-time job) why do they still have to work hours for me to the tune

of an additional $15K? Before they left, $49K was adequate...then, when they

made more than that in their Full-time job, $64K is now what they have to

make...and guess what, it is still not enough. They are working other jobs

beside this one part-time...

My point is, again, if you are not happy and cannot live within your means no

amount of money is going to fix that. You are an obviously intelligent man,

strike out on your own in EMS (if that is what you love) and do what you love,

your way, paying what you want...again...control your own destiny. Don't

complain that the people running EMS are all messed up...start up yourself, run

it right...and drive the wrong ones out of the business...that is truly

improving this career field...and your own lot.

Dudley (a.k.a. ace)

[Guest guest]

<Its not about me ace....>

<You can call me names all day long pal, but that's reality, and it

doesn't take days off.>

, Ace here...I don't recall calling you any names in my previous posting

and if I did, I am truly sorry.

I would encourage you to go re-read your post...it is all about you. Everything

you posted in that was about you, your ability to not make your defined level of

" decent " wage, your wife making more than you, and your total disgust at the

non-checkbook prying people who run EMS organizations.

On missing the point, I don't believe I did. It is just that we have two

choices in life: go through it being miserable or go through it being

happy...the better choice (and it is a choice), in my opinion is to be happy.

The jobs I quoted at 33K or near 50K are 24/48 hour format jobs with NO

overtime...meaning you are only away from your family for 1/3 of the time...not

most of it.

The saving money and living within your means arguement is not a total cop-out.

There is nothing in our society that says you should be able to make whatever

you desire to spend...that is a myth of our society today...but it is in no way

a right. The reason I say live within your means is because of my own personal

experience and those of some of my co-workers.

When someone leaves my organization where they made $34K base and another 15K in

other employment and goes to a job where they made $58K last year(just on their

primary, full-time job) why do they still have to work hours for me to the tune

of an additional $15K? Before they left, $49K was adequate...then, when they

made more than that in their Full-time job, $64K is now what they have to

make...and guess what, it is still not enough. They are working other jobs

beside this one part-time...

My point is, again, if you are not happy and cannot live within your means no

amount of money is going to fix that. You are an obviously intelligent man,

strike out on your own in EMS (if that is what you love) and do what you love,

your way, paying what you want...again...control your own destiny. Don't

complain that the people running EMS are all messed up...start up yourself, run

it right...and drive the wrong ones out of the business...that is truly

improving this career field...and your own lot.

Dudley (a.k.a. ace)