I think I have good future ahead of me.

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you also need to eventually become a Certified Emergency Medical Technician

I may be able to get that out of the way early by pulling some volunteer work at a local volunteer fire department. My parents say that most volunteer fire departments will send you to a special training course for free.

Time and money will tell if I go ahead with my teaching career. I'm quite content just reading about military history. A teacher at a local college has given me the name of a man who teaches military history at Arkansas Tech. I plan on speaking with him about the career. Also, I read that some fire departments actually encourage you to learn more about firefighting in college, offering money and other benefits. I think I might be able to use that to squeeze in learning about teaching military history.

I'm just going to wait and see for now. However, one things for sure, I will learn gunsmithing as a trade and hopefully start my own business after I retire from fire fighting. I like firearms and it would probably be a very rewarding job considering how many people own firearms.