Guess what I get to spend my weekend doing?  FEMA Incident Command System Training. Oh boy! :P

One of the EMT jobs I’m applying for requires the following three coursework certifications:

ICS 100: Introduction to Incident Command System

ICS 200:  ICS for Single Resources and Initial Action Incidents

ICS 700: National Incident Management System (NIMS), an Introduction

Each of these classes is three hours long; At least I can do them online.

Other than that, I’m getting together with one of my friends from EMT school (she’ll be in town tomorrow to turn in her SF Fire application – I already turned in my application for that during the last round during December, we’ll both be taking the same test, apparently sometime in August) for coffee and we are going to compare job-hunting notes.  Just hearing what she’s done since graduation, I felt instantly behind.  She has already done her CPAT practice and is currently enrolled in a Medical Terminology and an A&P course.  However, I have her beat when it comes to getting the county EMS cert and ambulance drivers license, medical examiner card.  So I guess everyone just plugs along and gets as many certifications as they can, constantly.  I think it’s just the nature of this type of career that the certification process and further coursework is just relentless.  So, I’ve accepted that… and am learning to embrace it.  I mean, those FEMA courses sound like they could be interesting, right?  Right?!??  :) Haha.  I sure hope they will be.