The career field I have chosen is public service. Just a career in the fire brigade. I believe firefighting is a great career choice as I enjoy the work it entails and there is a demand that will never stop for firefighters as fire will always and forever exist. The fire department offers a wide range of services to the public. Some of the major duties performed in the fire department range from providing medical assistance as an emergency medical technician, to entering a burning structure to search for any trapped occupants, to suppressing the fire from outside or inside, to removing of a victim trapped inside a vehicle involved in an accident, cutting down a tree that had fallen onto the road, helping to put an elderly person back to bed after a fall. Most of these skills require a lot of training and knowledge, as well as the ability to act in stressful situations and still remain calm enough to make clear and precise decisions when they involve your life, the lives of other firefighters, and even civilian lives. The conditions in which firefighters work are constantly changing. One minute, you can find yourself in the middle of a busy highway in the dead of winter at the scene of a major car crash with trapped victims and then an hour later you can find yourself at the scene of a fire, entering a building that is structurally unsafe, burning at hundreds of degrees, dons 70 pounds of gear and extra gear to save the life of a trapped occupant. You never know what the call will be, when it will happen or what will happen. A typical shift usually consists of at least one 24-hour duty period with at least 48 hours on duty, then repeated again. While on duty, you will spend your entire shift at the station, while not on call, performing tasks between…half of paper…which is why I will continue to plan to spend the majority of my life and future as a firefighter . Works Cited --- Fire Department Calls. (2013, November 1). They call the firefighters. Retrieved May 27, 2014, from https://www.nfpa.org/research/reports-and-statistics/the-fire-service/fire-department-calls/fire-department-calls---Bureau of Labor Statistics, Department of United States Labor, Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2014-15 edition, Firefighters, on the Internet at http://www.bls.gov/ooh/protective-service/firefighters.htm (accessed May 27, 2014).- -- Occupational Outlook Handbook, 2008-2009 edition; Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor --- Earnings - Firefighting. (n.d.). Career cruise. Retrieved May 27, 2014, from https://www2.careercruising.com/careers/earnings/184---(U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics http://www.bls.gov)