A question I receive all the time! The truth is I've always been interested in helping people, I've always had that drive to step forward and help, regardless of how gruesome a situation!
I remember being on a school trip and we visited a place with actors and one actor had a "very bad pretend" injury, we were asked who would dress the wound area....everyone stepped back and I stepped forward, I think that feeling of helping albeit it was a fake scenario has never left me.
When I was 11, I fell off my bike and fractured my skull. At that young age and with no formal training I was calmer than my dad, who panicked and tried to put me to bed even though I was in and out of consciousness and being sick everywhere! I remember telling him to call an ambulance as I had hit my head and was being sick.... I'm not sure where this information came from...looking back maybe it was a natural fight for survival!
Poor dad didn't know what to do, I remember thinking a few years later how awful he must have felt, not knowing what to do. Eventually he got me to hospital with the help from some friends.
That was the reason for the first proper step towards my career change. I was delivering courses for the workplace I was in and then developed my qualifications in teaching and jumped through the hoops to create the business.
I've seriously not looked back!
I love my job and it's heart warming to receive messages from people who have been on one of my courses and have gone onto help people who have become ill or injured. The help ranges from small cuts all the way to stroke, heart attacks and full in CPR. One common comment is they all felt confident to help, I can't ask more than that!
All I can ask for is for you to be that person to step forward to help and not back...be the difference, be that one!
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