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Snet
United States3573 Posts
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neobowman
Canada3324 Posts
I could never do what you do. Amazing. | ||
ryuu_
United States1266 Posts
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Battleaxe
United States843 Posts
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BigFan
TLADT24917 Posts
Keep up the amazing work, wish I had time to volunteer as an EMS, maybe in the future | ||
HawaiianPig
Canada5154 Posts
...Wait so, how do you make a living? | ||
domane
Canada1606 Posts
It's amazing that people like you - the kind of people whom the Obamas mention in their positive speeches (please excuse the politics) - actually exist in significant numbers. | ||
moopie
12605 Posts
sounds like you have amazing dedication, but are your current financial means enough to get you by long term? | ||
Zariel
Australia1277 Posts
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Aerisky
United States12128 Posts
But wow, volunteer EMT. Always stay classy, man. What a boss | ||
LeapofFaith
United States446 Posts
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Ikidomari
Australia485 Posts
Same as everyone else, do you work another job? have an inheritance? got lucky and came by some money by other means (lottery etc)? | ||
Meta
United States6225 Posts
What's the rest of your life look like? How much time do you spend working and how much time do you take for yourself? | ||
kusto
Russian Federation823 Posts
Still i read them. I love my life. | ||
ReketSomething
United States6012 Posts
((You == awesome) == True!! | ||
blade55555
United States17423 Posts
On September 11 2012 15:48 HawaiianPig wrote: You're awesome. ...Wait so, how do you make a living? That's what I am wondering :o. | ||
flamewheel
FREEAGLELAND26780 Posts
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surfinbird1
Germany999 Posts
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marttorn
Norway5211 Posts
On September 11 2012 15:48 HawaiianPig wrote: You're awesome. ...Wait so, how do you make a living? I think when people see him they fling their wallets at him due to the sheer awesomeness of his person. 5/5 | ||
Suc
Australia1569 Posts
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s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
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Marti
552 Posts
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imre
France9263 Posts
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BongChambers
Canada591 Posts
Seriously wish I had that attitude or anything similar to it... | ||
MCDayC
United Kingdom14464 Posts
On May 16 2012 15:13 Snet wrote: I look at my paycheck and smile. I get PAID to do this. Loving life. What changed? | ||
DtorR
Australia171 Posts
I guess he gets paid to volunteer. | ||
TheKefka
Croatia11752 Posts
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esReveR
United States561 Posts
The point was Snet said he earned low pay in May doing EMS work and now in this thread he says he works for free. If you take it at face value it is a contradiction. However, I can only imagine Snet didn't mean free in a literal sense, but rather that he works basically for free as an EMT. At least that's what I hope he meant... | ||
LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
Also when are you writing that book. | ||
docvoc
United States5491 Posts
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empty.bottle
685 Posts
On September 11 2012 15:48 HawaiianPig wrote: You're awesome. ...Wait so, how do you make a living? I bet he deals hockey cards. | ||
Roe
Canada6002 Posts
I became an EMT four years ago and have volunteered the entire time. I have averaged 1000+ hours a year, totaling over 4000+ hours of volunteer EMS time. Sometimes I wonder why I sign up to work shifts that are 12 hours long, when I won't get paid a dime. Especially when my friends are out going to concerts, partying, etc But honestly it's hard to describe... when you are doing what you feel is right - you don't need payment to feel like your time is worth it. I could have worked the same amount of hours at a paid department and have $40,000+ in my pocket, but I wouldn't trade what I have done for a thing. here's your other blog where you say you get paid On May 16 2012 15:13 Snet wrote: There's no such thing as a tip in EMS. It's not the same as getting a few extra bucks as if you gave a good haircut, or served food well at a restaurant. There's usually 0% recognition, gratitude, or admiration for what you do. Many wonder why we dedicate our lives to continue a job with such low pay, but immeasurable stress. Lives. Imagine what you value your wife, mother, father, son, daughter, brother's life at. There is no quantifiable equivalent. So when I save a life. And I mean 100% literally, my physical hands, save a life. The feeling is absolutely indescribable. I look at my paycheck and smile. I get PAID to do this. Loving life. So what happened and how are you getting money? You also say you look at your paycheck, smile, and then you love life. But then in here you love life because you work for free. I'm sorry, I'm just not into this blog. There's just not enough information/story telling and too many contradictions. Quite frankly I'm not sure why everyone else loves it. | ||
Denzil
United Kingdom4193 Posts
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
Too many questions and not enough answers. | ||
JerKy
Korea (South)3013 Posts
I actually kinda liked reading these blogs x: Hopefully theres some good explanation and not some lies behind this | ||
JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
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Ikidomari
Australia485 Posts
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FryBender
United States290 Posts
Now it seems like you're lying about certain things. And I'm guessing that a lot of the stuff in your stories may very well not be true at all. That's sad | ||
s.a.y
Croatia3840 Posts
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Vaelone
Finland4400 Posts
But let the man explain himself before jumping the gun. | ||
Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
Minimally. Where I volunteer, you get 2€ per hour, and it's upgraded to 4€ if you do more than 24 hours in that week. It's barely enough to make up for the gas and food you need during that, so that can't be the same for him, if he can be happy about getting a check. I for sure wasn't ever happy about the money, because 90% is already gone by the time I get the check, lol. As for calling BS on his previous blogs, I didn't read a lot of them, I admit (don't really like the style, at all). I do know that the paramedics operate very differently in the U S and A, so I can't comment on anything besides the medical stuff. And I can't remember anything that was inherently WRONG, but since I didn't read it often, I wouldn't know either way. I'm also sure he made some parts look nicer or more awesome than they most likely were, but I'm used to that. You see that a lot with paramedics, especially volunteers. I don't think it's in itself a bad thing, you just compare penis sizes with the others about how awesome you were saving the life of guy X, or how horrible accident Y was (but of course YOU kept your cool and totally did everything right). People kinda NEED to do that, especially when you don't (really) get paid. Let me put it out there: The work sucks. Period. People die, people almost die, people have conditions that are WORSE than dying, etc. You have to make it good somehow in your mind, or you start asking yourself "why am I actually doing this again?" And to that question, you will not have a good answer. So you have to lie to yourself, and think "I do this because I'm awesome. And doing it is awesome. And since I'm awesome, I'm SO doing this" The part where that goes wrong is when you stop just lying to yourself, and start lying to everyone else. People that work as medics are very hit-and-miss in my experience. There are a ton of really chill guys that are a ton of fun to hang out with (hanging out is >50% of the "worktime" as a medic, because more often than not, nothing actually happens.) Then there are some people that are absolutely astronomical dicks. Arrogant assholes, the worst of the worst. And everything inbetween exists too. What I'm saying is: Never go into a blog that even remotely deals with medical stuff and expect to read the truth. Never. Even the nicest guys bolster up their emergencies right after they happened and you talk about it on the station. And by the time something makes it into a blog, it's never even remotely accurate anymore. I wouldn't take a blog written by my best medic-buddies as the truth, so I sure as hell won't trust some random on the internet. That in itself may not be understandable to an outsider, but trust me it's how shit works, and it has it's place. Always take the content with more than just one grain of salt. On September 12 2012 01:35 FryBender wrote: I always felt weird about reading Snet's blogs. At first I thought I was just jealous of all the cool stuff that happened. But that wasn't it because I love reading about all the cool stuff different people get to do on TL. Maybe it was because of the weird style. But I don't think that's it either. I finally figured out what it was. First of all the self-aggrandizing is kind of annoying. The "look at me I'm a hero" thing is cool to read once but when it's literally in every one of your blogs it gets tired and repetitive. The second thing is that I knew a paramedic once (a professional paramedic) and the only cool story he had after 3 years of working was the one time he got called out to the house of this old guy who died of a heart attack during sex. Needless to say the woman he was with was freaked out and she never dressed properly. So here is this old 67 year old guy lying naked in the bed and this much younger woman (who looks like she is a professional) is half-naked and freaking out. The best part of the story was that either because she was just in shock or (more likely) because she had never met this guy before in her life, she had no idea who he was. Didn't know his name, didn't know if he had any relatives, nothing. That was the only story he had. He said everything else was pretty routine and boring. He never once talked about how much of an awesome guy he was because he delivered a 3 year old to the emergency room just in time and how he saved a million lives. And I'm glad he didn't because talking with him would become a bore. Now it seems like you're lying about certain things. And I'm guessing that a lot of the stuff in your stories may very well not be true at all. That's sad You don't always want to talk about it. I promise you, it was not the only "interesting" thing that happened to him. But it probably was the only one that was funny enough to tell people. Sex sometimes makes for good stories, but more often than not, it's just gross, and nothing else. T.T | ||
7mk
Germany10156 Posts
On September 12 2012 01:35 FryBender wrote: I always felt weird about reading Snet's blogs. At first I thought I was just jealous of all the cool stuff that happened. But that wasn't it because I love reading about all the cool stuff different people get to do on TL. Maybe it was because of the weird style. But I don't think that's it either. I finally figured out what it was. First of all the self-aggrandizing is kind of annoying. The "look at me I'm a hero" thing is cool to read once but when it's literally in every one of your blogs it gets tired and repetitive. The second thing is that I knew a paramedic once (a professional paramedic) and the only cool story he had after 3 years of working was the one time he got called out to the house of this old guy who died of a heart attack during sex. Needless to say the woman he was with was freaked out and she never dressed properly. So here is this old 67 year old guy lying naked in the bed and this much younger woman (who looks like she is a professional) is half-naked and freaking out. The best part of the story was that either because she was just in shock or (more likely) because she had never met this guy before in her life, she had no idea who he was. Didn't know his name, didn't know if he had any relatives, nothing. That was the only story he had. He said everything else was pretty routine and boring. He never once talked about how much of an awesome guy he was because he delivered a 3 year old to the emergency room just in time and how he saved a million lives. And I'm glad he didn't because talking with him would become a bore. Now it seems like you're lying about certain things. And I'm guessing that a lot of the stuff in your stories may very well not be true at all. That's sad Now thats a story =) And yeah I fully agree | ||
FractalsOnFire
Australia1756 Posts
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English
United States475 Posts
I honestly don't care if he lied or not, EMTs still save lives. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 01:35 FryBender wrote: I always felt weird about reading Snet's blogs. At first I thought I was just jealous of all the cool stuff that happened. But that wasn't it because I love reading about all the cool stuff different people get to do on TL. Maybe it was because of the weird style. But I don't think that's it either. I finally figured out what it was. First of all the self-aggrandizing is kind of annoying. The "look at me I'm a hero" thing is cool to read once but when it's literally in every one of your blogs it gets tired and repetitive. The second thing is that I knew a paramedic once (a professional paramedic) and the only cool story he had after 3 years of working was the one time he got called out to the house of this old guy who died of a heart attack during sex. Needless to say the woman he was with was freaked out and she never dressed properly. So here is this old 67 year old guy lying naked in the bed and this much younger woman (who looks like she is a professional) is half-naked and freaking out. The best part of the story was that either because she was just in shock or (more likely) because she had never met this guy before in her life, she had no idea who he was. Didn't know his name, didn't know if he had any relatives, nothing. That was the only story he had. He said everything else was pretty routine and boring. He never once talked about how much of an awesome guy he was because he delivered a 3 year old to the emergency room just in time and how he saved a million lives. And I'm glad he didn't because talking with him would become a bore. Now it seems like you're lying about certain things. And I'm guessing that a lot of the stuff in your stories may very well not be true at all. That's sad I like your medic friend already. I know a few of vets in my EMS system that will say after 25 years they have only had one or two TRUE saves. At my level of care almost all our skills/interventions are just to extend the patients life so they can get to a higer level of care where the true treatment needs to happen. I almost never have those "cool" calls come in (unless some hot lady friends are standing around at the same bar, amirite!?!?). The most I get is a known 320lbs+ 60 y/o female that just happens to fall every few weeks and is ALWAYS just stark naked. Last time we got toned out for her she had fallen in her walk in closet and was perfectly wedged inbetween the two walls. Oddly enough, local fire was conviently busy at the time but managed to responded to a 18 y/o female with syncope an hour later... SNET, I was really hoping you would answer my last post in your last blog about your treatment of the seizure victim. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
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AnachronisticAnarchy
United States2957 Posts
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paper
13196 Posts
I don't like these blogs at all. Is it truly altruism if you boast about it? No, it's just legal public masturbation. | ||
Vansetsu
United States1452 Posts
However, I didn't wan't to assume anything. So I bit my toungue, didn't post, and went to sleep. It was strangley satisfying to wake up now and read 5 other people did decide to write something. | ||
y0su
Finland7871 Posts
Please take my 999th and 1000th posts. | ||
y0su
Finland7871 Posts
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DKR
United Kingdom622 Posts
EDIT: (if it's true) | ||
Maxd11
United States680 Posts
Thank you for blogging and please continue despite the naysayers. | ||
marttorn
Norway5211 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:06 Maxd11 wrote: Wow these people seem really jealous of Snet's incredible generosity. Believe it or not some people are just good. Thank you for blogging and please continue despite the naysayers. I think most people are just a little suspicious of the inconsistencies we've seen here, not trying to discredit the act of saving lives. I'm not taking sides at all until he gives an explanation. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:06 Maxd11 wrote: Wow these people seem really jealous of Snet's incredible generosity. Believe it or not some people are just good. Thank you for blogging and please continue despite the naysayers. How is it nay saying to ask questions? I asked quite a few about treatment in the last blog and am I nay saying? People are asking him to clarify the issue of whether he is getting paid or volunteering. I think these are perfectly acceptable questions to pose, and they can be answered simply and quickly..... | ||
Maxd11
United States680 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:08 marttorn wrote: I think most people are just a little suspicious of the inconsistencies we've seen here, not trying to discredit the act of saving lives. I'm not taking sides at all until he gives an explanation. Actually I was reading through some of his old blogs since this did question his authenticity and I just wanted to reassure myself and I found this. I had the money to spare after hundreds and hundreds of hours of stressful, long, and often saddening hours of emergency medical services. So I guess I'll hop on the conspiracy bandwagon but if he's not lying we should all feel ashamed. | ||
rogzardo
610 Posts
On September 12 2012 04:47 paper wrote: I'm just gonna say it. I don't like these blogs at all. Is it truly altruism if you boast about it? No, it's just legal public masturbation. Agreed. All I can think of is the Seinfeld where Jerry dates the dermatologist who constantly harps about saving lives. This is why doctors are often douchebags. | ||
DKR
United Kingdom622 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:06 Maxd11 wrote: Wow these people seem really jealous of Snet's incredible generosity. Believe it or not some people are just good. Thank you for blogging and please continue despite the naysayers. http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=239214 http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?id=337998 First blog shows snet quoting his wage, the second confirming he still gets paid and the current one shoes him saying he does it for free. I'm sure there's a misunderstanding which will be cleared up but at the moment it looks pretty bad. Innocent until proven guilty. | ||
FryBender
United States290 Posts
Snet wrote I continued with my EMT work. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 1700-0500. What shitty hours for a twenty year old. Practically no social life. But the money was good for my age, and the job was self-rewarding. During the week I volunteered at the local rescue squad to burn time (basically doing what I do on the weekends for free). This became my life. Other than that it was all starcraft, parties, and chicks if I was lucky enough. I'm no romeo, mind you. Looks like he does both. But personally I still think that there is way too much "look at how cool I am I save lives I'm the greatest person in the world" in these blogs. And other EMTs have pointed out: renent wrote At my level of care almost all our skills/interventions are just to extend the patients life so they can get to a higer level of care where the true treatment needs to happen. So I highly doubt that in his 4 years he has somehow been able to do all this insane stuff when most EMTs complain how mundane their work is. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 02:04 Dandel Ion wrote: I'm also sure he made some parts look nicer or more awesome than they most likely were, but I'm used to that. You see that a lot with paramedics, especially volunteers. I don't think it's in itself a bad thing, you just compare penis sizes with the others about how awesome you were saving the life of guy X, or how horrible accident Y was (but of course YOU kept your cool and totally did everything right). People kinda NEED to do that, especially when you don't (really) get paid. Let me put it out there: The work sucks. Period. People die, people almost die, people have conditions that are WORSE than dying, etc. You have to make it good somehow in your mind, or you start asking yourself "why am I actually doing this again?" And to that question, you will not have a good answer. So you have to lie to yourself, and think "I do this because I'm awesome. And doing it is awesome. And since I'm awesome, I'm SO doing this" The part where that goes wrong is when you stop just lying to yourself, and start lying to everyone else. People that work as medics are very hit-and-miss in my experience. There are a ton of really chill guys that are a ton of fun to hang out with (hanging out is >50% of the "worktime" as a medic, because more often than not, nothing actually happens.) Then there are some people that are absolutely astronomical dicks. Arrogant assholes, the worst of the worst. And everything inbetween exists too. What I'm saying is: Never go into a blog that even remotely deals with medical stuff and expect to read the truth. Never. Even the nicest guys bolster up their emergencies right after they happened and you talk about it on the station. And by the time something makes it into a blog, it's never even remotely accurate anymore. I wouldn't take a blog written by my best medic-buddies as the truth, so I sure as hell won't trust some random on the internet. That in itself may not be understandable to an outsider, but trust me it's how shit works, and it has it's place. Always take the content with more than just one grain of salt. I don't lie to myself about what I do. I don't make it good in my mind. On most days I work a majority of my shift including timing out at 16-18 hours. Usually when I talk to my other EMS related buddies or work partners the calls are 100 percent truth, because bullshitting Ricky Rescues are identified quick. If I lied about my call, chances are my fellow workers are going to audit the PCR and then call bullshit on my stories. Partners not trusting each other does not bode well for the working relationship. Sorry, I just wanted to give my perspective as your post does NOT represent EMS in my view. However, I don't work where you work so it could be 100 percent of a different community where you are. | ||
Sephy90
United States1785 Posts
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lannisport
878 Posts
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
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Dandel Ion
Austria17960 Posts
On September 12 2012 06:28 Renent wrote: I don't lie to myself about what I do. I don't make it good in my mind. On most days I work a majority of my shift including timing out at 16-18 hours. Usually when I talk to my other EMS related buddies or work partners the calls are 100 percent truth, because bullshitting Ricky Rescues are identified quick. If I lied about my call, chances are my fellow workers are going to audit the PCR and then call bullshit on my stories. Partners not trusting each other does not bode well for the working relationship. Sorry, I just wanted to give my perspective as your post does NOT represent EMS in my view. However, I don't work where you work so it could be 100 percent of a different community where you are. Hm, it is my experience, and nothing else. I probably made it sound worse than it actually is, you just make your stuff look a bit better. Even to yourself. Into that ties that most volunteers are 20-25 years and just keep doing it after they finish civil service - so it's mostly male almost-adults. Gotta determine who has the longest and biggest. And saying "patient X just pooped on my hand" is not manly enough. Also, you "lie" afterwards. I know my colleagues, and I know I can work with them. Otherwise I wouldn't. There are some who just spew baseless shit all the time, and I refuse to work with them because I see them endangering the patients. Be it through lack of knowledge, but mostly by the way they drive (biggest problem with overly arrogant people imo) I also live in a rather rural area, and "good" emergencies almost never happen (though we have a ton of funny ones), so when they do, people that had it just HAVE to rub it in. Like I said, it sounds worse than it is - it's just boys being boys. When it counts, you do what you can. Everything else comes afterwards and doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents on this. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 07:34 Dandel Ion wrote: Hm, it is my experience, and nothing else. I probably made it sound worse than it actually is, you just make your stuff look a bit better. Even to yourself. Into that ties that most volunteers are 20-25 years and just keep doing it after they finish civil service - so it's mostly male almost-adults. Gotta determine who has the longest and biggest. And saying "patient X just pooped on my hand" is not manly enough. Also, you "lie" afterwards. I know my colleagues, and I know I can work with them. Otherwise I wouldn't. There are some who just spew baseless shit all the time, and I refuse to work with them because I see them endangering the patients. Be it through lack of knowledge, but mostly by the way they drive (biggest problem with overly arrogant people imo) I also live in a rather rural area, and "good" emergencies almost never happen (though we have a ton of funny ones), so when they do, people that had it just HAVE to rub it in. Like I said, it sounds worse than it is - it's just boys being boys. When it counts, you do what you can. Everything else comes afterwards and doesn't really matter. Just my 2 cents on this. I misread into what you were getting at a bit I think, when I initially read it it seemed like you were speaking for EMS as a whole. Yeah, I work a mainly rural almost always BLS service, the cool thing is you get that nice long transport times and get to actually go through most of your protocols etc rather than just being at the hospital within 2 minutes, the down side is you get nice long transport times to twiddle your thumbs... TBH, the "coolest" stuff I have seen is when we have been called into our rural hospital for back up... We also have some great locum doctors out here that are really into teaching. Are you suggesting I didn't take that poop on my hand like a champ? It's my current war story | ||
Master of DalK
Canada1789 Posts
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GTPGlitch
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Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On July 01 2011 15:20 Snet wrote: From before the blog series began. Here are some excerpts from blogs that have been deleted:I had a bestfriend from my childhood. I knew him since the fourth grade. Immediately we became best friends. We played diablo together. Diablo II came out, we came our pants. Lord of Destruction came out... are we in heaven? Eight years later we graduated highschool. I chose the educational route. Regular college wasn't for me. I couldn't find a passion. So, I went to EMT school, and started working on an ambulance for $10/hour. He chose the uneducated route. He moved out of his parents house working on minimum wage. His parents helped him pay rent. He fell in love with a girl who was in her senior year of highschool. (his first girlfriend, so naturally he was obsessed with her). She went off to college. He decided to follow her. He moved out of state with 0$ to his name, but a heart full of love. I continued with my EMT work. I worked Friday, Saturday, Sunday. 1700-0500. What shitty hours for a twenty year old. Practically no social life. But the money was good for my age, and the job was self-rewarding. During the week I volunteered at the local rescue squad to burn time (basically doing what I do on the weekends for free). This became my life. Other than that it was all starcraft, parties, and chicks if I was lucky enough. I'm no romeo, mind you. My friend called me up. His girl dumped him and cut him off from her life completely. He was sleeping in her dorm at that time so he did not have to worry about rent. Now he was homeless. Broke. He needed help. He was lost in a entirely new city with fast food income. He asked me for a loan of $1,000. I had the money to spare after hundreds and hundreds of hours of stressful, long, and often saddening hours of emergency medical services. He was my best friend. I trusted him with my life. It was not even half an hour before I sent him the money. I trusted him that deeply. My money helped him survive. He was able to rent a place with several roommates so his rent was cheep. My life became very busy. I decided to take it one step further and become a paramedic. That means two more years of intense school. Not even counting clinical hours. We grew out of contact slightly. Down to about one phone call a month. I got the call. "Snet, I'm coming home" He was moving back to town! Then things turned for the worst. "Yea, Snet, I don't have a job but I have a hookup in MD.. gonna grow some green man... I'll be making more money than I ever did." Ok, whatever.. although I don't smoke, I don't see anything wrong with marijuana. I've seen people die first hand to almost every other elicit drug, but never pot. Months pass by. This kid is smoking his own merchandise. I mean like EVERDAY, 24/7. He is getting ridiculous. He starts linking me to dozens of random youtube videos about "The secret", "the zeitgeist", and several, several other propaganda videos. He left me a voicemail. "Snet, you are in danger. You and your family will die very soon unless you listen to me. I have researched things you don't even know. I need you as my ally. Hear me out or you will die." I woke up in the morning and listened to that voicemail. I was like...uhhh ...... So I talk to him and he tells me about dozens of different government conspiracies. "OK" I told him, "I do not care for these things" He became angry. He said I should trust him. Said I was risking my life, said I was going to die. I told him, "Dude, listen.. I'm not saying I don't trust you, I'm just saying I don't care for the things you are researching and trying to get me to believe." He said, and I quote: "You faggot" WTF? He continued to attack me, and call me an ignorant sheep. He said I hope you enjoy dying. You will starve and die when the system falls. I was like wtf... I grew tired of it. I told him: "Look man, i'm not saying i don't trust you but I do not want to join anti-gov groups!" He continued to call me sheep. I told him. "Look man. You are my best friend. I will always be there for you. I even gave you $1,000 when you asked me for help. Stop attacking me because I don't agree with you on this." He told me..... "Want your money back? Sue me. Good luck finding me." He deleted me off facebook and won't answer his phone. He also has no fixed address so I'ts hard to find him. So I stand here before you, TL, in utter disbelief. Although it makes no difference how I earned my money...but, I spent over 100 hours attempting to save lives.... only to "loan" it to this kid, and never get it back. I don't even know if I want to pursue this kid. Do I want to sue someone like him? He will never be able to pay me back, and I don't even know where to find him, so I can't serve him. He's never had over $50 to his name so even if I do sue him, god knows how long it will take to see any payback. I knew this kid around nine years, and we were literally best of friends.. like brothers. To him, $1000 was enough to trash our friendship. My eyes have been opened. People can, and will turn on you whenever it is convenient to them. TL, I can only hope that you will not become that person. It breaks hearts. From: Ride the bus? Please realize over fifty (50) volunteers, including volunteer EMTs. volunteer medics, and volunteer firefighters responded within five (5) minutes of dispatch. From: Crash Landing Do you know that feeling when you wake up on your day off, and you panic for a second after you wake..thinking.."am I late for something..am I late for work??" Then you realize...silly, Snet, today is your day off. Such a wave of relief.... [...] When I was searching the living quarters I hear a dispatch that I have never heard before. Area box 703 in the area of 12341 Hollywood Dr, for the plane crash. CO7, CO79, CO19, CO13, CO 3, CO9, CO 39, M1 due to respond You could have put a brick wall between me and my crew and it would not have slowed us down. There are others, but there are a lot of references to working for free. As well as tons of consistency between the stories. So either snet has fooled us all with an incredibly well hung together story, or, (and this is more likely) he works as an EMT and also does volunteer EMT'ing. But hey, I'll let the man clear this up for himself. | ||
Snet
United States3573 Posts
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
Which is it, you love getting paid to do it or You wouldn't trade volunteering for getting paid? | ||
Plexa
Aotearoa39261 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. There we go, drama over, carry on as usual. | ||
Suc
Australia1569 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. Ah okay, that makes sense, thanks for coming back and giving the clarification. | ||
LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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Roe
Canada6002 Posts
On September 12 2012 12:24 Snet wrote: My blogs are not a chronological timeline. I write stories from things that happen the current day I write them, and some that happened in the past. I have been a volunteer for four years but have also held several jobs in the medical field including a paid EMT position, and positions in an emergency department. Sorry for any confusion. If you could write that in the blog it would be terrific also, any reason on why you deleted all your old blogs? | ||
Snet
United States3573 Posts
Meaning that those who have read and enjoyed previous stories would be more likely to read my book if they knew old stories I deleted were in the book. Amateur marketing scheme. | ||
Corazon
United States3230 Posts
But also, you are a kick ass person. Keep on being awesome k? | ||
mynameisgreat11
599 Posts
In my city, there are volunteer programs to help others in need. Why do I do it you ask? Because it allows me to talk down to others, no matter how little education or how inflated my ego may be. I have been helping the homeless for almost 2 years now. In my 'boy am I an awesome guy' daily planner, I've kept very close track of every hour I've ever spent helping others. You may ask, why do I keep such close track of my hours? Wouldn't my selfless work be enough satisfaction by itself? The answer, of course, is no. My selfless acts are meaningless by themselves. If I don't share them with others, how will they know of my selflessness and good deeds? Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time with the homeless, with the poor souls that society pushes aside. 8, 10, 12 hours pass, day by day, when I could be earning money, gaining an education, or meeting friends. The answer? So I can tell people about it later. Girls at bars. Family at christmas time. My fellow brethren, my fellow starcrafters. They need to know the power, the awe, that happens when you hold another person's life in your hands, they need to know that their lives are meaningless without experiencing it. They will never know happiness, joy, or the true meaning of life unless I tell them about it from my amazing, unpaid, unsung experiences. I love life. I love working for free. I love telling people about it later. User was temp banned for this post. | ||
Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 12 2012 14:13 mynameisgreat11 wrote: Many of you do not realize I don't get paid for my work. I volunteer. In my city, there are volunteer programs to help others in need. Why do I do it you ask? Because it allows me to talk down to others, no matter how little education or how inflated my ego may be. I have been helping the homeless for almost 2 years now. In my 'boy am I an awesome guy' daily planner, I've kept very close track of every hour I've ever spent helping others. You may ask, why do I keep such close track of my hours? Wouldn't my selfless work be enough satisfaction by itself? The answer, of course, is no. My selfless acts are meaningless by themselves. If I don't share them with others, how will they know of my selflessness and good deeds? Sometimes I wonder why I spend so much time with the homeless, with the poor souls that society pushes aside. 8, 10, 12 hours pass, day by day, when I could be earning money, gaining an education, or meeting friends. The answer? So I can tell people about it later. Girls at bars. Family at christmas time. My fellow brethren, my fellow starcrafters. They need to know the power, the awe, that happens when you hold another person's life in your hands, they need to know that their lives are meaningless without experiencing it. They will never know happiness, joy, or the true meaning of life unless I tell them about it from my amazing, unpaid, unsung experiences. I love life. I love working for free. I love telling people about it later. I actually hoped so bad this would have ended with "I am the Bat". I have no clue why.... | ||
LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
You can't write nonfiction in present tense unless its in chronological order, otherwise your focused more on moving a reader via their senses rather than your nonfiction message. In fact changing tenses or overall tones of nonfiction writing can only mislead or cause confusion in readers who are reading what they expect to be nonfiction. after hearing your explanation of how you write about events past/present and not in a chronological order I now can't read future writings with a pure nonfictional standpoint and because of that I can no longer appreciate and enjoy that deeper connection I once had of nonfictional glory. I just can't trust if the story has been sensationalized to a point where too much of the truth has been lost or not, "did this actually happen today? or was it 4 years ago?" and as soon as those questions come the meaning of the work becomes far less moving in my opinion. you can do all kinds of things with nonfiction writing...Dramatic nonfiction feeds off of a readers appreciation and connection with live and real events in life. you can dress it up, sensationalize everything, make it sound more amazing than it actually was, add rich details, maybe stretch the truth in some areas to add a sort of dramatic flair. This allows readers to become more immersed in the situation as seen through your eyes. But once you start changing the framework of the writing, the tense and overtones of the entire message,(which are coherently fictional practices) you risk jeopardizing that nonfiction connection you shoot for in readers. "today I was almost killed." means alot more if I'm actually telling the truth and actually talking about today. "Oh jk that was actually 4 years ago. lawlawl" isn't the truth, its an over-sensationalized misrepresentation of something that happened and not true. There I think I explained myself decently enough, I can go to bed happy now. But still sad that I'll never be able to read a Snet blog the same again. | ||
Megaliskuu
United States5123 Posts
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micronesia
United States24339 Posts
On September 12 2012 13:12 Snet wrote: The deleting of old blogs has been something I started quite a while ago when I first got the idea of creating a book. If I referenced or rewrote old stories I wanted them to be fresh and forgotten. And those who have been following my blog would get some sort of nostalgia feeling when reading old stories. Silly, I know. Meaning that those who have read and enjoyed previous stories would be more likely to read my book if they knew old stories I deleted were in the book. Amateur marketing scheme. Watch out... I tried putting my blogs into a published book... I got sued by TL. I am not a volunteer staff; I am an indentured servant! 2 more years and I am free~ + Show Spoiler + The information in this post does not necessarily constitute fact. | ||
Snet
United States3573 Posts
It's fun and exciting for people not involved in the health care field to read first hand stories of experiences with patients. And I found early on that the topic of helping others was inspirational and touching to the general TL population. I now see my intentions were skewed, and I apologize to any and all who feel as if they wasted their time reading one of my blogs. I do intend to continue writing stories. Although I hope they are read "as is". My blogs are not a continued story, they are all individual stories. I've ran 1000's of calls, but choose to write on only a dozen. I sincerely apologize if those dozen are not in order, or do not relate to each other. | ||
Ikidomari
Australia485 Posts
On September 12 2012 15:05 Snet wrote: All my blogs were written as I remembered it. So if I was writing about a call I was on two years ago, I wrote it as remembered, in the first tense. It's fun and exciting for people not involved in the health care field to read first hand stories of experiences with patients. And I found early on that the topic of helping others was inspirational and touching to the general TL population. I now see my intentions were skewed, and I apologize to any and all who feel as if they wasted their time reading one of my blogs. I do intend to continue writing stories. Although I hope they are read "as is". My blogs are not a continued story, they are all individual stories. I've ran 1000's of calls, but choose to write on only a dozen. I sincerely apologize if those dozen are not in order, or do not relate to each other. Don't be disheartened by people being sceptical in this thread, it's human nature, and in no way does it take away from you. even if you do, on a fundamental level, save peoples lives, and write these blogs so you can make yourself feel good, who cares? almost EVERYTHING humans do is selfish, and selfless acts are extremely rare. you're doing a great thing not many people do, and your blogs are still awesome to read! Keep it up Snet. | ||
marttorn
Norway5211 Posts
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
Snet still my hero. | ||
nanaoei
3358 Posts
you know, it's more interesting this way. sort of reminds me of Chicken Soup for the Soul, except with Snet *edit* i will pledge to buy one of your books snet. please help father my future children through your inspirations! | ||
QuanticHawk
United States32008 Posts
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LuckyFool
United States9015 Posts
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SupplyBlockedTV
Belgium313 Posts
Also ignore all the sherlocks.. | ||
Kal_rA
United States2925 Posts
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xmungam
United States1050 Posts
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Capped
United Kingdom7236 Posts
Holy shit, what - an - asshole. /Sarcasm. (He's awesome.) | ||
zJayy962
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Renent
Canada302 Posts
On September 13 2012 06:41 zJayy962 wrote: To respond to some people, it is certainly possible to like to get paid and to enjoy volunteer work. I've done both as an educator and they certainly give you a different feeling. The time management is what raises my eyebrows, a thousand hours of volunteer a year, plus hundreds upon hundreds of work hours, plus medic school (this is a pretty huge commitment up here in Canada).... Plus laddering time SNET, any chance you can pop into your last blog post and answer my questions... As a fellow EMT, I always love learning about how other services roll. ALSO are any EMS workers out there interested in a patch trade? | ||
niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
I mean, you could be just loving your job so much that you can't help but share the overwhelming feelings, but I get the feeling that you want praise from people too much and it irks me. But what you're doing is commendable regardless whether you are looking for being commended or not. | ||
theBALLS
Singapore2935 Posts
On September 13 2012 23:09 niteReloaded wrote: Your blog in general is too attentionwhory for my taste... saving lives isn't bigger in my book than baking bread, changing tires or fixing plumbing leaks. I mean, you could be just loving your job so much that you can't help but share the overwhelming feelings, but I get the feeling that you want praise from people too much and it irks me. But what you're doing is commendable regardless whether you are looking for being commended or not. I don't usually get involved in iffy matters like this. But I'll have you know that people like myself truly appreciate reading blogs like these. They provide perspective to a world unknown to myself. Just leave if you don't like it. | ||
niteReloaded
Croatia5281 Posts
On September 13 2012 23:23 theBALLS wrote: I don't usually get involved in iffy matters like this. But I'll have you know that people like myself truly appreciate reading blogs like these. They provide perspective to a world unknown to myself. Just leave if you don't like it. I read this instance of the blog just to see if something's changed from the last time. I don't regularly read it. I will not persist in being 'negative', I just shared my opinion. I'm still uncertain whether I should share feedback to people if it's a negative one. Some say don't say anything if it's not nice, some like to hear all opinions. | ||
ImDrizzt
Norway427 Posts
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husniack
203 Posts
On September 14 2012 00:27 ImDrizzt wrote: KEep owning it up sNET, I love my life as well, and I never work, and I probably have 60.000 hours not working, and I'm hoping to reach at least 100.000 before I die =] Sarcasm? 60k hours ~ is 20 years of 60 hour weeks. | ||
LightTemplar
Ireland481 Posts
I enjoy reading your blogs Snet. Hope this doesn't effect your willingness to blog. Thanks for posting. | ||
JieXian
Malaysia4677 Posts
he really is awesome (assuming he's telling the truth of course) | ||
Clow
Brazil880 Posts
Love reading your blogs, even though it makes me kinda sad because I realize how worthless I am as a human being. Keep posting, bro. I'll keep reading. | ||
snively
United States1159 Posts
oh my god, respect | ||
ANoise
United States67 Posts
Anyways, I'm glad there are people like you. I couldn't even fake enjoyment in your field of work. | ||
lannisport
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Fumanchu
Canada668 Posts
However, in Snet's case, we have someone who is as close to a hero as a real person can be. As such, our guard is initially a lot higher when we read his blogs. But over time, as we read his blogs, we let down our columbo like instincts and thoroughly and wholeheartedly start rooting for Snet. We become inspired by his life, reborn from his philosophies, and moved to higher emotions through his stories. So when we receive information that contradicts all these emotions it crushes us. It seems to tell us that what we believed in was all along a sham. That stories like Snet's don't belong in this world, and are in fact, just stories. And the small part of us that all along can't believe what we're reading, is suddenly given credit. It is because of this that we lash out. We feel hurt and betrayed. We gave hope to something wonderful existing and our hope was returned with scorn. Even with Snet's explanation, I don't think many of us will be able to recover fully. I myself fall into that group. I was always on the fence. Whether or not to believe Snet and his stories. Maybe he's telling the truth, maybe he's not, but I for one am not going to spend any more time reading his blogs. Also I just re-read this. It seems like I'm speaking for those who never asked to be spoken for. That's not what my intention is. It's just how I saw this going down. | ||
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