Rural department checking in: I show up about 2000 and go through the rigs thoroughly. I function check the Zoll and make sure everything is stocked on both rigs. Then I wash them, roll them out of the garage, and clean the garage floor. This takes me about an hour to an hour and a half, depending on how much time I deliberately waste because there's not much else to do at the moment.

Next, I grab a diet coke out of the fridge and wander into dispatch. I might bring the latest issue of JEMS to read if it's come out, otherwise I'll just BS with the dispatchers until I'm hungry - usually around 2300 hours. I stroll into the kitchen and make something to eat. Usually it's something easy like mac-and-cheese (with a little chicken and bacon added) but I grilled a T-bone the other night for fun. I go back to dispatch and eat with them; I always offer to share but they never take me up on it. I think they think I'm trying to kill them.

Finally, somewhere around 0030-0100 I roll out my blanket in the supply room and grab my pillow. I place my pager on the shelf with the volume up, set my shoes in the doorway, and change into my pajama pants. I go to sleep and wake up to my alarm at 0600, letting me know I've completed another successful night of being paid $27/hour to sleep in a closet. I now have 2 hours until I go to work at my other job, since I work 2 full-time jobs.

Occasionally my sleep IS interrupted by a medevac transport, which takes about 45 minutes from the time tones drop until I'm back in the garage. We also are a 911 service and probably once or twice a week I get an actual scene call during my shift; often it's a drunk down/psych patient, but you never know.

That is my 100% honest and not caked up review of my work day, Friday-Monday.