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University or Firefighter's College or Both?
Hi Hello, I am currently in a predicament. I am finished my final year of high school and I dont really know what to do. I've contemplated on it for a while and I've decided that I want to be a firefighter (ultimately). But my parents want me to go to university. It didnt really matter to me so I thought about doing uni first with a course that could supplement my firefighting application and beef it up when I apply to become a firefighter But of course that takes time (approx 4-5 years of uni plus 2 years of college for FF) and by the time that'll be over I am going to be about 25 years old. Is that too old to start becoming a firefighter? I am currently 18 years old.
However, thats only half the problem, Since as long as I can remember I've never really taken school seriously and therefore learned the hard way where it reflected in my marks. Now i am at the end of my high school career, I am beginning to feel the major repercussions to the choices I made in the past limiting the options available to me in the future. I could try to get into uni but it will be very hard, VERY hard, however not impossible. Just wondering if the time is worth it? since i only want to go to uni for the experience and as a supplement.
And in addition, if there are any firefighters here, would you kindly help me out by telling me if life as a FF will be hard being who I am?
-I am of Oriental ethnicity
-18 years of age (Student counselor said FF programs dont usually take anyone straight out of high school, true?)
-Medium body build (weight lifting since I was 15, stopped the past year and did a lot of cardio and lost 30 pounds)
-about 177-179 cm in height (not exact since I only measured at the lego poster in front of Toys R Us where you stand next to a stack of lego and each lego was 1 cm and I measured about 180 lego bricks with shoes on)
-Took all university courses and 3 college prep courses in high school (college courses got me an average of 90%, Uni....<75% or less)
-Dont smoke, stopped burning MJ (never done it a lot in the first place), and no drugs
-And I want to be a FF in Ontario, Canada
So basically that is my predicament, I know what I would like to do, but dont know due to my lack of experience and knowledge, all advice is appreciated, I am also worried about my height since being a FF does require a high level of fitness and the only FF i have seen are giants about 6" tall. As you can tell, I am quite serious about this problem so please answer seriously. All advice is appreciated >=)
thanks for your time
-Martin
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10th Anniversary Star Wars Lego Poster?
My best friend is a Star Wars Lego collector.
He has almost everything they made.
Except this limited ed. poster.
I wanna get it for his birthday (which is like, in two weeks D8) but the Lego.com doesn't have it, Amazon doesn't have it, and on Ebay it's been bidded up to like, 60 bucks.
Does anyone know where a student can get it fast and affordable?
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