I'd kill to be a paramedic, but this is why I'm currently not going after it. I don't think I could handle a 14 hour shift, sleep and then another shift. How many 12 hours shifts do you work in a week? Just wondering as well - with the story in the papers a couple weeks ago about an ambulance transporting a heart for transplant that broke down. The crew flagged down a car and took the heart in that way with a police escort. Would the paramedic/technician driving the ambulance drive the car? I presume they couldn't drive above the speed limit until the escort arrived. Just an odd question I had...