On 3/6/07, Oldak Quill oldakquill@gmail.com wrote:
The life-and-death aspect of volunteer firefighting is not the only aspect of the job that makes you feel obligated to fulfilling it as if it were a paid position. Contracts are signed, uniforms are worn, there is a work place: cues and mechanisms associated with a paid job.
This is true to some extent, except for the contract part. I never signed a written contract with the fire department. The rest is only partly true, though. We didn't wear always wear a uniform while we washed the equipment, and washing the equipment was by no means a life-and-death job. The fact that there was a work place wasn't the reason I did this either. No, washing the equipment was just something that we were required to do by the chief, and that's the reason we did it.
Anthony