Are you a firefighter, by any chance? Because this is silly advice.

Being a municipal firefighter in the U.S is one of the hardest jobs to come by...unlike policing, firefighting isn't proactive (you don't drive the engine around looking for fires), it's reactive; which means they need far less fireman than police officers...because of this, 75% (easily google'able stat) of firefighter positions are unpaid volunteer positions; and paid positions are extremely hard to come by and competitive.

Not to mention that in most states it's a requirement to be an EMT-B to become a firefighter, so that's a class he will have to take. Not to mention it's typically also a requirement to have 60 college credits (though as I said, it's super competitive, and most paid positions will get applicants with more)..and also not every municipality has the aforementioned program to pay for you to go to college; it's not the military ffs.

Also, if you google "average firefighter salary" on google, it's $33,000 not $60k.

This is a really unrealistic suggestion...signed, someone with a graduate degree, and EMT-B cert, who spent years trying to find a paid FF position before getting hired by a police department.