29/08/2026
“So you don’t do the paramedic thing anymore?” 🚑
I get asked this ALL the time… and the answer is I absolutely do 😂
I’m currently contracted to work 3 shifts a month, but in reality I usually do around 5, and for now, that works really well.
I worked bloody hard to become a paramedic and to get to the position I’m in now, where I have flexibility, years of experience and a whole load of skills and knowledge that transfer into pretty much everything else I do. So keeping up my professional practice and my registration is still important to me… for now.
There’s the practical side too. Building a business takes time. I’m incredibly grateful that I have a job that allows me to balance the finances while I build mine. I know I’m lucky to have that option but equally, I’ve worked really hard to have that option.
Will I be a paramedic forever? No.
My long-term plan is still to eventually let my registration lapse and fully move on from this chapter, but I don’t feel the rush to do that anymore.
If anything, since doing the work I do now, my whole outlook on my paramedic role has changed.
I understand stress differently. I understand the nervous system differently. I understand people differently. And probably most importantly, I understand my own response to the job differently.
It’s funny because for a while I felt like I desperately needed to get away from it. Now I can go in, do my shifts, appreciate the bits I still love about it, come home… and carry on building what’s next.
And obviously spend my shifts trying to convince emergency workers to give “this breathing lark” a go 😂
Because God knows, if there’s a group of people whose nervous systems could do with a bit of support, it’s us lot. 🫠😂
So yes… still a paramedic 🚑
Still building my business 💜
And currently very grateful that I get to do both.
For now 😉
