Poll: Which emergency service?
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Knew there would be some smart asses. LOLOL Coastguard.
The idea of this national duty is to serve the community for a year at entry level. The majority of us don't live by the coast or have the skill, fitness or time to train in all the operations they do. Not in 12 months to then go and be let away because time ran out.
I'm not discrediting it as a service it just seems if you went on to prove a good candidate in these skills in another field of the Emergency services sure. As it is now really.
Hence it isn't a choice in this poll, just as the army isn't.
*facepalm*
I guess it's fun to be obtuse.
The idea of this national duty is to serve the community for a year at entry level. The majority of us don't live by the coast or have the skill, fitness or time to train in all the operations they do. Not in 12 months to then go and be let away because time ran out.
I'm not discrediting it as a service it just seems if you went on to prove a good candidate in these skills in another field of the Emergency services sure. As it is now really.
Hence it isn't a choice in this poll, just as the army isn't.
*facepalm*
I guess it's fun to be obtuse.
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Police. The idea of spending all my time turning up at peoples houses and telling them not be mean to other people on Twitter or Facebook sounds hilarious. If I get to pepper spray them too, then I'm in for life.
Easily the most fun way to spend this 'gap year'... You can shoot whoever you want, drive recklessly and batter helpless people to a pulp. With the establishment backing up you up, it's consequence free.
Fire Brigade or Ambulance sounds rather too much like hard work in comparison.
Easily the most fun way to spend this 'gap year'... You can shoot whoever you want, drive recklessly and batter helpless people to a pulp. With the establishment backing up you up, it's consequence free.
Fire Brigade or Ambulance sounds rather too much like hard work in comparison.
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Fire Services are now entrusted with fitting smoke alarms in people's houses so lots of interaction with the general public. Trying to convince someone that it is not a good idea to dry clothes 30cm from an open fire takes a good deal of patience.
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If you have to teach someone that this isn't a good idea doesn't deserve life in the first place.
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Asthmatic so that rules out fire. Police or ambulance. I have great respect for both, i have issues with both.
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There's a pole at the Fire service HQ in Oxford. They're not allowed to use it for H&S reasons.
No, really, they're not.
Absolute balls! Sorry, but the only reason I can think of, is that the pole itself is structurally ruined.
I voted Police, because I wouldn't be the greatest at height (fire) and wouldn't particularly enjoy seeing someone in agony (ambulance), but I'd happily do any of them if I had to.
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Fire for me, my father's a retired firefighter.
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Ambulance for me because it's something I've always wanted to do.
OP has kind of ruled that out..... I think it takes a couple of years at least before you get to do anything specialised in the police - so that and the people wanting to drive fast cars etc.. isn't an option.
Instead you can probably look forwards to dealing with drunks & smackheads, getting called to domestic incidents etc.. in your police national service.
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