bearboiblake@pawb.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agoit's a matter of motivationquokk.auimagemessage-square176fedilinkarrow-up11.16Kcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devmop@quokk.au
arrow-up11.16Kimageit's a matter of motivationquokk.aubearboiblake@pawb.social to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.worldEnglish · 13 hours agomessage-square176fedilinkcross-posted to: programmer_humor@programming.devmop@quokk.au
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up14·edit-23 hours agoVolunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time. Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
minus-squareChainweasel@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·31 minutes agoSame, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
minus-squarekungen@feddit.nulinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 hour agoIsn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.
minus-squarebearboiblake@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·edit-23 hours agoThanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
minus-square🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.sociallinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·2 hours agoHell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
minus-squarebearboiblake@pawb.socialOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 hours agoGood for you! Thanks for being a good human <3
Volunteer firefighters do actually still get paid a lot of the time.
Source: Was volunteer firefighter. Was paid per-call.
Same, 6 years from 2005-2011, $7.50 an hour for a call was great money in 2005. I think we were up to $10 by the time I quit
Isn’t it just a small stipend? Nothing you could live on, even if houses were burning down 40 hours a week.
Thanks for sharing that - out of curiosity, would you still have done it if it wasn’t paid? No judgment, just curious!
Hell yeah! I didn’t even know I would be getting paid until I went down to the station to ask how I sign up.
Good for you! Thanks for being a good human <3