Intro from a medic

sparkymedic

Hello,

Been looking around this site for a while and finally got round to posting an intro. Recent CP course completion and now as if by magic; find myself in Iraq.........!

Happy new year

covert munkey

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sparkymedic

Thanks CM,

I'm ex British Army Royal Signals, left in 1995 so been out a while. I worked all over as a Comms engineer when i left and then changed careers just over 4 years ago and joined the NHS. I qualified as a Paramedic just over 3 years later and then back end of last year decided to take 6 months out and do something different on the medical front. So did a CP with CR and was lucky enough to pick up a job straight away and came out to Iraq as a medic 2 weeks ago!

It's been interesting so far, the whole CP course and getting an insight into the market etc, as with most areas of employment, half the battle of getting work is about networking with the right people. It seems their is plenty of work around but only if you have the right skillset, i may be wrong because i'm brand new in this area, but it seems a lot of companies are becoming more choosy now and want people who are multiskilled and to a high level, things like languages, medical etc, and not just a 2 week course somewhere!

their seems to be an awful lot of guys wanting to get into the CP world and companies clearly are aware of this, the market becomes saturated, money goes down, and companies can afford to pick and choose...

same thing happened when i contracted before doing comms stuff

be interesting to know everyone's thoughts on this ??

turanian

Welcome Sparky,

if you dont mind me asking - Do CR do a specific to theatre module during the course or just the generic CP format?

You are spot on when you say companies want someone with a skill set such as yours. If a security provider can offer and inform a client that they have a paramedic trained CP guy on the team a client can then justify not having a seperate medic in location who cant go on the ground (Not always the case).

My advice is that you make sure all the lads on the ground with you have the nec skills to save your life in the way that you have to save theirs. You will most likely become the trainer and therefore you are triple hatted on some contracts for the same money as a straight forward Psd operator.

Best of luck with your new career

Regards
Turanian