I was waiting for the part where he would say that the only housing he could find was an hour away but that part never came. 7 hours each way is comical.
On of my buddies does 5 on 10 off for a flight team. His trip is 7.5 hours each way. But he only makes it one time every 2 weeks, so it averages to about an hour per day. A lot of people average an hour per day for their 9-5s.
I'd just move if it was that much better.
But a 14 hour commute sounds miserable. It can be lessened if you take public transportation like a train, but still. I won't even live more than 45 minutes away from my primary station.
My car gets 40 miles to the gallon and this would cost me close to $5000/year just in fuel alone. You’re gonna go through a set of tires, and at least 10 oil changes.
Factor in your commute and you’re “working” 3,200 per year for $66k.
You’re going to take a day to drive there and a day to drive back. So you’ll be at work for four days and be off for three. You’re gonna wind up earning about $20/hr.
This has terrible idea written all over it.
And you haven’t even passed Registry yet.
I think the most I would push a commute is an hour and 15 minutes, and I would fucking hate it. But if I wanna live in the mountains and work in the city, that’s the price to pay
At one point in my life I was doing 12 hours shifts with a 4hour commute one way. Its not safe and I shouldn't have done it. It took rolling my car to say enoughs enough
So... You want to sit in traffic for 7 hours after working for 48 hours, much of which will also be driving? Possibly like 66 straight hours awake every week depending on call volume? Insane. Move there or go somewhere closer. You'll give back most of the 20k difference in taxes, gas, and car maintenance anyways.
For 48 straight in low-dense? I might be willing to drive three hours, but probably not more than that. At seven hours, you’re eating up two of your days off.
Bro do not do that 🤣 this is something someone in their early 20s would try and do. It’ll cost you $20k a year in gas just to do that. If anything, live in a motel or short term lease for 6 months. Do not drive 14hrs a week. That’s equivalent of driving 3hrs (1.5+1.5) to a 9-5… M-F. And after a 48hr shift where you don’t know if you’ll get sleep or not.
I would just move there if you really want it, that's a really long way to drive after a 48. Especially if you don't get much sleep during your shift. The longest I would personally drive is maybe an hour after a shift.
I live in Atlanta and I just did some research on how far away I can get in ~7ish hours. From my house to *fucking Vienna, Illinois* is 6 hours and 51 minutes.
You're insane to even consider that commute.
No way. If you had a private jet and airports were nearby at both places, maybe. But even that would be an unreasonably long trip.
Have you put any actual thought into this? I just drove 9 hours pure driving time home from vacation solo and I'm done for lol
Take the job, see how it is. See how you handle the drive.
If you love the job and the pay after 6 months, work on moving closer.
Cutting the drive in half to ~3 hrs would be workable for me. I mean, it’d only be six hours total per week. A lot of people with 40 hr/4 or 5 day work weeks spend more time than that commuting.
I'm sitting at 300 miles total per week for 2 24 hr shifts. Will be homest it's getting real old after 2 years. Just move closer to your new job if you get it.
Max an hour. There was a position for EMTs with incentives like 2% extra pay for bilingual in another city with the FF. Positions got filled quick. But 7 hours? IDK chief.
What is your plan here? What time does your work day start? If it starts at 7:30 then you’re going to have to leave at midnight just to get here on time. Unless you’re planning on going a day early but at that point you’re just wasting your day off. And if your 48 starts later in the day than youre still wasting a day off traveling anyways. It’s just unrealistic to be doing that once a week
oh. I would just be patient, or consider relocating if there are no opportunities near you and you really wanna do the job. Id also recommend checking out ER tech jobs as well, at least in the meantime. It's not the glory of the ambo, but they typically pay well and you get a lot of great learning experience (since youre working alongside EM docs and nurses). You also usually get to practice outside your scope, putting in IVs and doing EKGs and stuff.
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That long of a drive would be a bit much. I doubt you would handle it long term. You’d eat up 2 of your off days each cycle. If you wanted to try the job before you decided you wanted to move or not I think 2 or 3 months of that could work. 3 hours would be about my max for a 48. I will confess I’ve done 4 before for a 39 but that was temporary.
🎵🎵🎵 "lucky lucky lucky me! Im a lucky son of a gun! I work 8 hours, i sleep 8 hours, i have 8 hours of fun". No 7 hours isnt a day. But it counts for almost 1/3 of one.
I agree with everyone here. I did 4hrs round trip and that was miserable after 24 hrs with little sleep. I can't imagine 14hrs long term. Either move there or look elsewhere.
I did an hour and 30 minutes for one job that we did really long shifts (like over 48 hours) on and it still almost wasn’t worth it. 7 hours is an absolute unequivocal hard no. Move or look for a different job.
I drive an hour to work at my FD. I have a 24-24-24-120 schedule. So I only have to do it a couple times every 8 days. Anything more than that and I wouldn’t do it. For salary comparison; we start EMT’s at $75,500.
I like driving. So if it was pretty scenery I could do 2 hours. But mine right now is less than 40. Most of my coworkers are over an hour. 20k isn’t enough. Just calculating for gas and a new car every couple years and it isn’t worth it. Not to mention your time. No way. This isn’t worth it.
My first year in EMS I drove an hour and a half for 12 hour shifts for an inner city private BLS transfer only service. This was before the pandemic and they were the only service around that was hiring that payed a damn and after a year of cutting my teeth with transfers I could work their 911 service the next county over from where I lived. I look back on it now, all those miles I put on my car, all that gas, and those times I drove home so tired or in a blizzard and wonder what the hell I was thinking. I also know I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't stuck it out.
7 hours for 66k is absolutely not worth it.
If you want that job, plan to move there very soon.
Some FD guys in certain departments make that drive, but they also get paid 2-2.5x that.
Dude. The "pay raise" will end up not existing in the long run. Drive 7 hours one way??? You will be spending all that extra money on gas and increasing cost of maintenance. Doesn't really make much sense.
Anything over an hour is honestly too far for me personally unless I stayed there for awhile. This doesnt sound too enticing, especially given you're working OT to get that wage.
I used to do a 10 hour commute for a remote gig, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off.
Then I did 3 hours for 4 on, 4 off.
Now I have it cut down to 45 minutes. I'm good with that one. I live rural and work in a city as a specialist.
7 hours for a 2/5 is....not great. I'd consider either working closer or moving closer if the job is good enough.
I had a coworker do that while his house was being built. He lasted a week before he moved his camper on his land and lived there till the house got built
I drive 2 1/2 hours one way, but my shifts are 3 to 5 days long (bi monthly) and we have quarters for those of us that commute (which is all of us, I just travel the farthest). So I'm not doing 2 1/2 hours' drive, work a 24, and driving 2 1/2 back in a sleep-deprived turn and burn.
Even so, I wouldn't travel any further than that. OP, I hope you take the answers in this thread to heart.
Another important fact, I'm not reimbursed for my travel expenses...which is fuckin' dumb.
My second job is 2.5 hours away from my home. That is the absolute furthest I will drive and only because of their reputation as being the best department in the state, progressive protocols, great culture, and good pay.
Also I wouldn’t travel like that for anything less than 24 or 48 hour shifts.
You have to be out of your mind to consider a 7 hour commute. Maybe if they have some ridiculous schedule like 3 days on, 7 days off and were paying 100k+ or whatever but even then.....
It's flat out dangerous too. FDs that do 48 tend to be quieter than ones that do 24s but that's no guarantee and plenty of people here will tell you station sleep is not real sleep so you will be driving 7 hours sleep deprived.
Your sleep schedule will be fucked too. You're going to start your commute around midnight.
I'm full time (48/96) at a service an hour away and prn at another (24/48) about 2 hours away and I think that's my limit. It can be tempting to just dive in and get started, but unless you're planning on moving out there, don't do that to yourself. It'll hurt more than help in the long run
A 7 hr drive is basically a whole day. You will be working 4 days on 3 days off. Putting strain on your personal vehicle and either sleeping at your station or driving home tired
I mean i work at an EMS agency thats 30 minutes away from me. In a month im going to an EMT course that will be an hour and 10 minutes away from me one way. So really i will drive however long ngl.
Realistically that's a 4 day tour with driving. So your 5 days off become 3. You have to weigh it out. I'd look at housing options for that area and kill that commute. Most I've ever driven is 72 miles one way for a job. But the pay made it worth it compared with what I saved on cheap housing expenses living further out.
For a 48 I wouldn't drive more than 4 hours.
One time I was doing 120s, and I drove 5 hours for that but it was 5 days on 10 days off contract work. I think I'd only travel 7 hours away for like 7 days on 7 days off kind of work and even then only if it was close to an airport that spirit airlines landed at.
If you're willing to do it, then go for it. I was a trucker for 12 years and drove 14 hours per day. 7 isn't that bad if you have a reason to do that schedule. When I started in EMS in 2017, I was paid $11.25 per hour as an EMT-B. I was working 48 hours per week at 2 stations to try to change careers from trucking. I still worked part-time as a truck driver. This would've been a godsend for me back then. I won't drive more than 30 minutes these days, and that's pushing it. But we’re all in different situations and different driving factors.
On the other hand, why not try to find one or two agencies near you that you can do 1 or 2 24-hour shifts to get the same type of schedule? Or are you looking more at the pay? There's a reason you even looked at it. I have a friend who lived in Nashville and flew back to eastern PA for a medic job because it has a pension and good benefits if he retires there. There's also a fellow pilot on YouTube (PilotFun101) who is a paramedic who lives in upstate NY. He flies down in his own plane to one of my local airports in eastern PA and works as a paramedic just over the NJ line. I plan to do something similar when I graduate from PA school. Because for me, that 7-hour drive is probably only a 2-hour flight or less.
Factor in the costs of your vehicle and deduct that from your pay and go from there. It might even be cheaper to fly Allegiant or Spirit if your schedules line up. For example, from my local area, Allentown, PA, to Nashville, TN, is 800 miles and 12 hours of nonstop driving; it took me 14 hours each way when we lived there, and we would come back to visit. Or, with Allegiant, it's only $127 ROUND TRIP! It's probably cheaper than gas for most, and you can sleep both ways of your commute. It would be $6,604 per year or $550 per month. But you'd make about $1,300 per week and spend 130 ish on the commute. Depending on your bills and if you can find a similar commuting option, this could be viable for you. Especially if working another job or going to school.
Find a way if you want it. Don't let the naysayers sway your decisions in life; you'll find that you typically want to do the opposite of what the majority says you should do. Best of luck either way! You got this!
If it's in Oregon it's probably the job I'm thinking it is.
No one sticks with it that has a drive that long. Also you will absolutely not find affordable housing in the area.
I would suggest moving there OP, or at least confirming if you can sleep/reside in the station after you explain where you life. The company may be willing to accommodate that for you! Never hurts to ask.
Move there or don’t work there. Don’t have a 14 hour round trip that’s absurd.
especially after 48 hours of working...
He’s just trying to see his coworkers when he’s not working - what’s the big deal
I was waiting for the part where he would say that the only housing he could find was an hour away but that part never came. 7 hours each way is comical.
But I figured I might end up doing that getting into the fire service anyways
If you seriously think you can drive 7 hours to work and 7 hours home you will be burnt out in a month.
On of my buddies does 5 on 10 off for a flight team. His trip is 7.5 hours each way. But he only makes it one time every 2 weeks, so it averages to about an hour per day. A lot of people average an hour per day for their 9-5s.
45 minutes each way is pretty common. So for a M-F job like most people work that's 7.5 hours/week
Several 1 hour drives feels a whole lot different than a 7.5 hour drive but if it works for him that’s cool it just won’t work for most people
You are going to kill yourself or others driving 7 hours after a 48
I'd just move if it was that much better. But a 14 hour commute sounds miserable. It can be lessened if you take public transportation like a train, but still. I won't even live more than 45 minutes away from my primary station.
My car gets 40 miles to the gallon and this would cost me close to $5000/year just in fuel alone. You’re gonna go through a set of tires, and at least 10 oil changes. Factor in your commute and you’re “working” 3,200 per year for $66k. You’re going to take a day to drive there and a day to drive back. So you’ll be at work for four days and be off for three. You’re gonna wind up earning about $20/hr. This has terrible idea written all over it. And you haven’t even passed Registry yet.
Alright you swayed me
If you want it that bad just move there. That's a stupid drive and it is 100% unrealistic for you to have a 14 hour drive to and from work.
It’s 14 hours round trip,7 one way
To + from = 14
I think the most I would push a commute is an hour and 15 minutes, and I would fucking hate it. But if I wanna live in the mountains and work in the city, that’s the price to pay
My dilemma in Denver 😭
Could always work festivals and shows for experience while you continue looking. Lots of events for the music scene in Denver and surrounding areas
I have the opposite problem. I love working in the mountains but live in Denver because it's so expensive. So I just get a 2 hour commute each week
Max 30 minutes. Move if it’s longer. Don’t waste your life sitting in traffic.
I wouldn’t drive more than two hours personally ETA for 48 on and five days off. If I’m working 12s I wouldn’t even drive an hour away
Holy crap I need sleep. My dumbass originally read this as 48days on 5 days off and I was like who tf thinks this is a good idea??
For 48 days on at least you can kinda justify the 7 hour commute lmao. Just work for one year and retire on the overtime.
At one point in my life I was doing 12 hours shifts with a 4hour commute one way. Its not safe and I shouldn't have done it. It took rolling my car to say enoughs enough
So... You want to sit in traffic for 7 hours after working for 48 hours, much of which will also be driving? Possibly like 66 straight hours awake every week depending on call volume? Insane. Move there or go somewhere closer. You'll give back most of the 20k difference in taxes, gas, and car maintenance anyways.
For 48 straight in low-dense? I might be willing to drive three hours, but probably not more than that. At seven hours, you’re eating up two of your days off.
Lol what. I quit a job that was 50 min one way bc I was annoyed with the commute.
Bro do not do that 🤣 this is something someone in their early 20s would try and do. It’ll cost you $20k a year in gas just to do that. If anything, live in a motel or short term lease for 6 months. Do not drive 14hrs a week. That’s equivalent of driving 3hrs (1.5+1.5) to a 9-5… M-F. And after a 48hr shift where you don’t know if you’ll get sleep or not.
I would just move there if you really want it, that's a really long way to drive after a 48. Especially if you don't get much sleep during your shift. The longest I would personally drive is maybe an hour after a shift.
I live in Atlanta and I just did some research on how far away I can get in ~7ish hours. From my house to *fucking Vienna, Illinois* is 6 hours and 51 minutes. You're insane to even consider that commute.
You’re gonna fall asleep at the wheel on the way home. Or get stuck in traffic or blow a tire on your way there with 3 hours to go and lose your job.
No way. If you had a private jet and airports were nearby at both places, maybe. But even that would be an unreasonably long trip. Have you put any actual thought into this? I just drove 9 hours pure driving time home from vacation solo and I'm done for lol
Take the job, see how it is. See how you handle the drive. If you love the job and the pay after 6 months, work on moving closer. Cutting the drive in half to ~3 hrs would be workable for me. I mean, it’d only be six hours total per week. A lot of people with 40 hr/4 or 5 day work weeks spend more time than that commuting.
I'm sitting at 300 miles total per week for 2 24 hr shifts. Will be homest it's getting real old after 2 years. Just move closer to your new job if you get it.
Max an hour. There was a position for EMTs with incentives like 2% extra pay for bilingual in another city with the FF. Positions got filled quick. But 7 hours? IDK chief.
What is your plan here? What time does your work day start? If it starts at 7:30 then you’re going to have to leave at midnight just to get here on time. Unless you’re planning on going a day early but at that point you’re just wasting your day off. And if your 48 starts later in the day than youre still wasting a day off traveling anyways. It’s just unrealistic to be doing that once a week
why are you willing to drive 7 hours away to make 66k but not go back to school to make more money?
I am willing I’m just trying to get into an EMS job ASAP lol
oh. I would just be patient, or consider relocating if there are no opportunities near you and you really wanna do the job. Id also recommend checking out ER tech jobs as well, at least in the meantime. It's not the glory of the ambo, but they typically pay well and you get a lot of great learning experience (since youre working alongside EM docs and nurses). You also usually get to practice outside your scope, putting in IVs and doing EKGs and stuff.
I’m open to an hour each way. That’s the most I’ll drive.
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That long of a drive would be a bit much. I doubt you would handle it long term. You’d eat up 2 of your off days each cycle. If you wanted to try the job before you decided you wanted to move or not I think 2 or 3 months of that could work. 3 hours would be about my max for a 48. I will confess I’ve done 4 before for a 39 but that was temporary.
How? It’s 7 hours one way
Youre going to spend 1 day driving there and 1 day driving back. 2 days.
1 day is not 7 hours.
dude. you can make your own decisions. you asked a question, i gave a answer.
🎵🎵🎵 "lucky lucky lucky me! Im a lucky son of a gun! I work 8 hours, i sleep 8 hours, i have 8 hours of fun". No 7 hours isnt a day. But it counts for almost 1/3 of one.
Any drive over an hour is too much. Either move closer or find another job.
I agree with everyone here. I did 4hrs round trip and that was miserable after 24 hrs with little sleep. I can't imagine 14hrs long term. Either move there or look elsewhere.
I did an hour and 30 minutes for one job that we did really long shifts (like over 48 hours) on and it still almost wasn’t worth it. 7 hours is an absolute unequivocal hard no. Move or look for a different job.
I drive an hour to work at my FD. I have a 24-24-24-120 schedule. So I only have to do it a couple times every 8 days. Anything more than that and I wouldn’t do it. For salary comparison; we start EMT’s at $75,500.
You could try and commute by flight if where you live and the place you work have airports?
I like driving. So if it was pretty scenery I could do 2 hours. But mine right now is less than 40. Most of my coworkers are over an hour. 20k isn’t enough. Just calculating for gas and a new car every couple years and it isn’t worth it. Not to mention your time. No way. This isn’t worth it.
I work 45 minutes away 48/96 and will never go further than that
30 mins, and that’s me being desperate.
My first year in EMS I drove an hour and a half for 12 hour shifts for an inner city private BLS transfer only service. This was before the pandemic and they were the only service around that was hiring that payed a damn and after a year of cutting my teeth with transfers I could work their 911 service the next county over from where I lived. I look back on it now, all those miles I put on my car, all that gas, and those times I drove home so tired or in a blizzard and wonder what the hell I was thinking. I also know I wouldn't be where I am now if I hadn't stuck it out.
7 hours for 66k is absolutely not worth it. If you want that job, plan to move there very soon. Some FD guys in certain departments make that drive, but they also get paid 2-2.5x that.
Dude. The "pay raise" will end up not existing in the long run. Drive 7 hours one way??? You will be spending all that extra money on gas and increasing cost of maintenance. Doesn't really make much sense.
Move there or don't do it. The costs of gas alone will make it not worth it, and the commute will burn you out in a hurry.
Anything over an hour is honestly too far for me personally unless I stayed there for awhile. This doesnt sound too enticing, especially given you're working OT to get that wage.
7 hours one way? Just move there my dude.
There is a guy at my job that lives in Georgia but takes a bus up to NYC. However, don’t be him.
I used to do a 10 hour commute for a remote gig, 2 weeks on, 2 weeks off. Then I did 3 hours for 4 on, 4 off. Now I have it cut down to 45 minutes. I'm good with that one. I live rural and work in a city as a specialist. 7 hours for a 2/5 is....not great. I'd consider either working closer or moving closer if the job is good enough.
I had a coworker do that while his house was being built. He lasted a week before he moved his camper on his land and lived there till the house got built
2 hours max. Currently working one hour away and it’s not bad at all.
I drive 2 1/2 hours one way, but my shifts are 3 to 5 days long (bi monthly) and we have quarters for those of us that commute (which is all of us, I just travel the farthest). So I'm not doing 2 1/2 hours' drive, work a 24, and driving 2 1/2 back in a sleep-deprived turn and burn. Even so, I wouldn't travel any further than that. OP, I hope you take the answers in this thread to heart. Another important fact, I'm not reimbursed for my travel expenses...which is fuckin' dumb.
My second job is 2.5 hours away from my home. That is the absolute furthest I will drive and only because of their reputation as being the best department in the state, progressive protocols, great culture, and good pay. Also I wouldn’t travel like that for anything less than 24 or 48 hour shifts.
"Just passed my EMT and accepted a job with a seven hour commute. This is about to be a breeze!!" One month later....submits resignation letter.
45 minutes?
You have to be out of your mind to consider a 7 hour commute. Maybe if they have some ridiculous schedule like 3 days on, 7 days off and were paying 100k+ or whatever but even then..... It's flat out dangerous too. FDs that do 48 tend to be quieter than ones that do 24s but that's no guarantee and plenty of people here will tell you station sleep is not real sleep so you will be driving 7 hours sleep deprived. Your sleep schedule will be fucked too. You're going to start your commute around midnight.
I won't even do 30. Relocate or you're gonna crash into a ditch.
And I thought my commute of 50 min was bad 😭
The most I would I do is 30 min each way.
I'm full time (48/96) at a service an hour away and prn at another (24/48) about 2 hours away and I think that's my limit. It can be tempting to just dive in and get started, but unless you're planning on moving out there, don't do that to yourself. It'll hurt more than help in the long run
$20k extra a year is a lifestyle change for sure, but not with that round trip. Just move there if you can.
A 7 hr drive is basically a whole day. You will be working 4 days on 3 days off. Putting strain on your personal vehicle and either sleeping at your station or driving home tired
I mean i work at an EMS agency thats 30 minutes away from me. In a month im going to an EMT course that will be an hour and 10 minutes away from me one way. So really i will drive however long ngl.
Expensive commute it would eat up the 20k right there
Realistically that's a 4 day tour with driving. So your 5 days off become 3. You have to weigh it out. I'd look at housing options for that area and kill that commute. Most I've ever driven is 72 miles one way for a job. But the pay made it worth it compared with what I saved on cheap housing expenses living further out.
I'd just move, sounds like a great job
For a 48 I wouldn't drive more than 4 hours. One time I was doing 120s, and I drove 5 hours for that but it was 5 days on 10 days off contract work. I think I'd only travel 7 hours away for like 7 days on 7 days off kind of work and even then only if it was close to an airport that spirit airlines landed at.
Genuinely one of the most unhinged/low iq posts I’ve ever seen on this website and that’s saying a lot
If you're willing to do it, then go for it. I was a trucker for 12 years and drove 14 hours per day. 7 isn't that bad if you have a reason to do that schedule. When I started in EMS in 2017, I was paid $11.25 per hour as an EMT-B. I was working 48 hours per week at 2 stations to try to change careers from trucking. I still worked part-time as a truck driver. This would've been a godsend for me back then. I won't drive more than 30 minutes these days, and that's pushing it. But we’re all in different situations and different driving factors. On the other hand, why not try to find one or two agencies near you that you can do 1 or 2 24-hour shifts to get the same type of schedule? Or are you looking more at the pay? There's a reason you even looked at it. I have a friend who lived in Nashville and flew back to eastern PA for a medic job because it has a pension and good benefits if he retires there. There's also a fellow pilot on YouTube (PilotFun101) who is a paramedic who lives in upstate NY. He flies down in his own plane to one of my local airports in eastern PA and works as a paramedic just over the NJ line. I plan to do something similar when I graduate from PA school. Because for me, that 7-hour drive is probably only a 2-hour flight or less. Factor in the costs of your vehicle and deduct that from your pay and go from there. It might even be cheaper to fly Allegiant or Spirit if your schedules line up. For example, from my local area, Allentown, PA, to Nashville, TN, is 800 miles and 12 hours of nonstop driving; it took me 14 hours each way when we lived there, and we would come back to visit. Or, with Allegiant, it's only $127 ROUND TRIP! It's probably cheaper than gas for most, and you can sleep both ways of your commute. It would be $6,604 per year or $550 per month. But you'd make about $1,300 per week and spend 130 ish on the commute. Depending on your bills and if you can find a similar commuting option, this could be viable for you. Especially if working another job or going to school. Find a way if you want it. Don't let the naysayers sway your decisions in life; you'll find that you typically want to do the opposite of what the majority says you should do. Best of luck either way! You got this!
If it's in Oregon it's probably the job I'm thinking it is. No one sticks with it that has a drive that long. Also you will absolutely not find affordable housing in the area.
No sir
furthest i’d drive would be 2 hours
I would suggest moving there OP, or at least confirming if you can sleep/reside in the station after you explain where you life. The company may be willing to accommodate that for you! Never hurts to ask.