Dave Wood

I came back at 29 and I kind of was real lost.

I was like, all my mates had got married.

They had houses and full-time jobs.

And I was just like, man, what, you know, I can't lifeguard for the rest of my life.

And I can't like,

I've got to get something behind me.

And I was going down for a surf one day, bumped into my mate, and he was telling me about this paramedic degree.

And he said to me, oh, you know, with this, I do two days on.

He was just come out of the degree and he was actually working on the road.

And I was like, oh, what's the deal with that?

I didn't even know what a paramedic was.

And he was like, well, you do two day shifts, two night shifts, and you have four days off.

And he was telling me a little bit about the job.

And in my head, I was just going, man, four days off, I can go surfing.

Because I enrolled the next day, did a three-year degree.

came out onto the road.

And in that job, I wanted to be an intensive care paramedic, which is really as high as you can get.

Nowadays, it's like taking the recess room from the hospital out into the pre-hospital environment.

Anything you can imagine in your head is what we're confronted with.

What confronts us in that job, man?