Hello everyone,
I know this is probably not the best place to post a question like this but I figured it may be worth it a shot and see if anyone had similar situations during ones own career. I’m 27 years old and have been a paramedic for about three years at this point and in EMS emergency for about 7 years. I am not afraid to admit that I am completely burnt out. I am at the point where I have zero passion for help people. I don’t care to check off my drug bag anymore. I don’t care to check off my ambulance. I don’t care to keep my ambulance clean. I have zero passion for the job and helping people anymore when I am constantly treated like garbage by my admin and people who abuse the healthcare system. Our healthcare system is garbage. I was the student who was always constantly studying. I took a cardiologist EKG course. I always studied my anatomy and physiology before and after graduating medic school. I have the knowledge for the job but the abuse has burnt me out. I don’t think I can go back. I was considering nursing school and I did apply after completing all my cores but with my mindset right now, I don’t believe I should be in healthcare right now.
I am asking this question in hopes someone may have found a way out? I have been looking at other careers outside of healthcare like maybe IT, Data Scientists, Cybersecurity, etc. I am just worried about my age. Has anyone made a complete switch? If so what did you do and how did you go about it? Thank you!
I know this is probably not the best place to post a question like this but I figured it may be worth it a shot and see if anyone had similar situations during ones own career. I’m 27 years old and have been a paramedic for about three years at this point and in EMS emergency for about 7 years. I am not afraid to admit that I am completely burnt out. I am at the point where I have zero passion for help people. I don’t care to check off my drug bag anymore. I don’t care to check off my ambulance. I don’t care to keep my ambulance clean. I have zero passion for the job and helping people anymore when I am constantly treated like garbage by my admin and people who abuse the healthcare system. Our healthcare system is garbage. I was the student who was always constantly studying. I took a cardiologist EKG course. I always studied my anatomy and physiology before and after graduating medic school. I have the knowledge for the job but the abuse has burnt me out. I don’t think I can go back. I was considering nursing school and I did apply after completing all my cores but with my mindset right now, I don’t believe I should be in healthcare right now.
I am asking this question in hopes someone may have found a way out? I have been looking at other careers outside of healthcare like maybe IT, Data Scientists, Cybersecurity, etc. I am just worried about my age. Has anyone made a complete switch? If so what did you do and how did you go about it? Thank you!