gatorgrad8
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Hello everyone,
I am in the process of writing my personal statement and I have taken a couple of years after graduating undergrad to apply. In that time, I worked as an EMT for 6 months. I loved working on an ambulance and wish I still could, but the job was too much to handle. It was a private ambulance service and we did both interfacility transport and local 911 calls. The company was full of burned out paramedics who hated working on a truck, never wanted to teach, hated working with new and excited EMT's, and took every opportunity to put you down for mistakes rather than use it as a teaching moment. One particular paramedic was terrible to me, very disrespectful in general, and just an overall bad person. My excitement faded very quickly and turned to dread. Put this on top of a 45 minute commute to work at 4 am, constantly leaving late after a 12 hour shift (getting 3-4+ hr transports right before clocking out), and having a boss that didn't know my name, treated me like I was dumb, and wouldn't assign me with a new paramedic, and I was ready to GO.
I hated this because I love being an EMT and I knew it was my only option to work in the field, but it became a detriment to my mental health. I would really like to explain this briefly in my personal statement, and ultimately say that leaving was to preserve my mental health (not because of patient-care related burnout, because of work environment).
Is this a red flag? How would you explain this briefly? I feel it is very necessary, considering I chose to leave the only job I had in the healthcare field at the time after just 6 months.
Thanks!
I am in the process of writing my personal statement and I have taken a couple of years after graduating undergrad to apply. In that time, I worked as an EMT for 6 months. I loved working on an ambulance and wish I still could, but the job was too much to handle. It was a private ambulance service and we did both interfacility transport and local 911 calls. The company was full of burned out paramedics who hated working on a truck, never wanted to teach, hated working with new and excited EMT's, and took every opportunity to put you down for mistakes rather than use it as a teaching moment. One particular paramedic was terrible to me, very disrespectful in general, and just an overall bad person. My excitement faded very quickly and turned to dread. Put this on top of a 45 minute commute to work at 4 am, constantly leaving late after a 12 hour shift (getting 3-4+ hr transports right before clocking out), and having a boss that didn't know my name, treated me like I was dumb, and wouldn't assign me with a new paramedic, and I was ready to GO.
I hated this because I love being an EMT and I knew it was my only option to work in the field, but it became a detriment to my mental health. I would really like to explain this briefly in my personal statement, and ultimately say that leaving was to preserve my mental health (not because of patient-care related burnout, because of work environment).
Is this a red flag? How would you explain this briefly? I feel it is very necessary, considering I chose to leave the only job I had in the healthcare field at the time after just 6 months.
Thanks!