So I had a new guy as my driver for the period of time I was actually out on the road today. He's working here part time to get extra money. His actual job? He's a firefighter. And in one month he'll be graduating as a certified EMT, which he is actually required to do in the county he works in (most counties here do not allow you to just be EMT, you also have to be a firefighter. In some counties, the EMTs are also required to be cops instead of firefighters). His pay? $23,000.00 a year. As he says, he's actually bringing in more money as an armored guard than as a firefighter.
Opinion time, no ass kissing intended, this is just something I've always thought.
I think we should take these actors/actresses and these sports players and pay them what teachers are paid. Then take all those millions of dollars and spread them across fields of work that actually matter. Ya know, teachers, cops, EMTs, and firefighters. And military.
There is no reason why a starting firefighter should not be making AT LEAST $45,000.00 a year. Think about this. We have teachers, which are the people who are teaching our children and prepping them to run the world eventually.
Military: who risk their lives on many levels to defend our country.
Police: who go out on those streets every day and get spit at and shot at just to protect the same people who spit at them and shot at them the night before.
Firefighters: who run in to burning buildings to save the lives of people inside, even though it could possibly cost them a horrible death, too.
EMTs: who go out every day in to the thick of God knows what with no weapons to deal with injured and sick people, many of which are trying to hurt them, too.
And we can't pay them better than $23,000.00 a year? But Joe Nike can make $10 million a year for running a ball across a field? Fuck you!
Just my opinion.
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