Rick Huebner:  

Let's see. After 1988, I went to UGA. While attempting to go to class, I also became a paramedic at age 20. I could give morphine but couldn't (legally) buy beer! Go figure. Worked for St. Mary's Hospital EMS while in school and figured I'd take some time off. Worked for Glynn County Fire as a firefighter/paramedic. I moved to Statesboro where I finished up school BS Biology/Chemistry while working in the local emergency room and on the ambulance as a paramedic. Man, wild calls working EMS in a rural college town. One day it's college kid puking guts out after doing 151 shots after giving blood and the next, it's 8 migrant workers ejected from a car into a corn field. During this time I also managed to do some 911 sales and computer database application work for small rural public safety departments(this will eventually pull me out of EMS). I moved to the ATL in 1996 or 1997 working as a paramedic supervisor first in Cobb County then in Fulton. I didn't know the difference between Alpharetta and Roswell at the time but learned quickly. EMS in the Atlanta area sucks for paramedics. Most of the time you are 5-10 minutes from a major hospital. The only skill you need to know is how to complete paperwork quickly. What fun. In Statesboro, we often had response times to major calls of 30-40 minutes and provided Advanced Life Support backup to the surrounding counties with only a small rural hospital in the county. Skills had to be sharp. I finally left the EMS world in 1999 after taking a job as a network administrator for a small dot com in 1998. I moved into development and consulting with that company. That lead me to my current job at Vitria Technology where I've been a Sales Engineer ...Expand for more