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[zercool.livejournal.com]

I feel amazingly unburdened. I gave notice yesterday. Three weeks until I hang up the headset, close the last call tickets, answer the last emails, turn in the laptop, cell phone, pager, door card, and walk away from the cube farm. Forever? I hope so.

I took a chance, I'm following a dream, and walking towards something I love.

I'm hanging up the keyboard and headset for a radio - 911 dispatch (999 for those across the pond), here I come.

I'll still be reading in here, although the posts will become less frequent.

Stay sane.

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[ex-prunesnp.livejournal.com]

I gave notice 3 weeks ago. My last day is Thursday.

Except I'm going from software tech support to software tech support plus grad school. While also being a step toward what I love, I have to pay for it somehow.

What are you going for?

And whatever it is, good luck!

[ex-prunesnp.livejournal.com]

Oh, well, you said. Good luck with it! I hope it's less 'eventful' than tech support although somehow 911 operator sounds like a damned eventful job.

[ozdeadmeat.livejournal.com]

wow, good luck there mate. 911 Dispatch. Hope you enjoy your career change of sorts.

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Eventful? Yep. Morons? Definitely.

But I get different idiots every time around, instead of the same 500, and I don't have projects hanging over my head at the end of the day. :-)

[jacobine.livejournal.com]

Eeek, another stressful job! But hopefully more rewarding to you than the tech support!

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Sounds like out of the frying pan into the fire.

Hope it's a great job.

[greeklady.livejournal.com]

That is what I am thinking. But at least poo wont roll down hill to your desk.

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

Good for you! What are you going to do instead?

[geekgrrl-ca.livejournal.com]

Poo always rolls down hill to your desk no matter what job you have.

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

Just remember that cops are not gods, and paramedics are not idiots. That should help you immensely :o)

[litch.livejournal.com]

having a fair number of friends who are EMT's I've always told freaking out about their "emergency" that unless death is imminant it's not an emergency

urgent maybe, important sure, but not an emergency

[dr-atheist.livejournal.com]

You do realise they use keyboards and headsets in 911 dispatch right?
Seriously though, good luck, a friend of mine recently packed in her job at a hospital helpdesk and went into 999 call taking for the London ambulance service, and has never been happier in her work.

[zercool.livejournal.com]

911 dispatch

[zercool.livejournal.com]

I knew that a long time ago... I grew up around the fire service, and have spent the past three years being very active in my fire department :-)

[zercool.livejournal.com]

"Your emergency is not my emergency."

[zercool.livejournal.com]

*headdesk*

Shit. Really?

[zercool.livejournal.com]

Entirely different kind of fire. And work environment. I'll have ... get this ... windows.

[ladynisa.livejournal.com]

oo, i thought that was what you were giving up. lol, my mistake

[zercool.livejournal.com]

*chuckle* nope. I'm giving up "where's the any key?" for "my house is burning!"

[residentgeek.livejournal.com]

Ah, then you are truly on the side of good :o) My partner is a Paramedic, so I get to hear all the complaints about dysfunctional dispatchers. But it sounds like you know what's going on, unlike so many.

[zercool.livejournal.com]

One of the job requirements for my county was a minimum of two years active duty with an emergency agency. :-)