Going to my job feels like coming home and I am more than grateful for it via /r/gratitude

English isn’t my first language so I might mix up some terms

I‘ve been working in EMS since I was 18, it was my first big boy job and I fell in love immediately. When I first started out I worked in BLS and Inter Facility Transfer Service (only low stakes calls and driving stable patients from hospital to hospital) in a big city. It was a fun learning opportunity, but it got boring quick and after a while I switched to the real deal.

The job is amazing. I love the station, it’s super modern with great amenities (we even got a big flat screen TV and some gaming consoles), the team is fairly young and dynamic, but there is a core team that’s established and we work well together. Plus the pay at my company is great!

That’s all really amazing already and I haven’t even talked about the actual job!
It’s so fun, I absolutely adore medicine. I love the medical field, I love studying medicine, I love learning about new medications, disorders, treatments etc. it feels effortless to me. Like I can just hear or read about it and my mind instantly connects the dots and simply understands.
Even if the job gets stressful, it’s a fulfilling kind of stress and rarely overwhelming.
The human body is absolutely fascinating and the more I learn the more I want to know about it. I can talk about this for hours.

I love working with patients, talking to them, calming them down, figuring out what’s wrong with them and helping them. And since all the hospitals are so far away we get to do some actual medicine on the road and really push ourselves.
There’s so much you can do with communication already it’s crazy how much simply listening and being present can improve someone’s health. Like, actually measurably improve how someone is doing.

There is absolutely nothing that can compare to the feeling of arriving on scene, with adrenaline flushing your system and feeling how your mind and body are now operating on peak performance.
It’s a calmness that overcomes everything else while you solely operate on what your learned and your gut instincts.
And seeing your treatments work and the patient get better? Amazing. Best feeling I have ever felt, nothing can compare.
I absolutely thrive in the chaos.

Honestly, I have no idea how to describe it. It’s something you can’t understand if you haven’t experienced it.

Every day I am grateful to have found this job and be able to work it. If I have a bad day, I go to work and I will leave happy. On my days off I look forward to working. Sure there are bad days, but it feels worth it for what this career gives me.

It’s hard, it’s exhausting, you are ruining your physical and mental health and it’s the best job out there