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Inside EMS Podcast: Would you want your kids to have an EMS career?

Our co-hosts answer a question from a podcast listener wanting to know if he should leave his current career for one in EMS

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In this Inside EMS Podcast episode, co-hosts Chris Cebollero and Kelly Grayson answer a question from a podcast listener. Matt Burns, 22, has been in the welding field for almost three years. He’s thinking about leaving his current career for one in EMS and asks the hosts their opinion on if he should make the change.

Chris shares that his daughter recently asked him about going into EMS. He explains how he told her more of the bad side and then the good. “If I think this is the best career field in the world, why don’t I want my daughter to do it? Does that make me a hypocrite?” Chris asks.

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