Bio: When considering and being asked what truly is my WHY on wanting to become a firefighter, it was honestly hard to answer. Last year I took the EMT program through west-mec and my main reason was because I got out of school early. But slowly I started to realize I loved the idea and feeling of helping someone when they’re going through one of the toughest days in their life. I asked some classmates about the fire science program and they all said it was amazing and had lots of fun. I took the program because it matched the career field I was going down and was another great opportunity to continue my education. When looking through all the days that have gone by I learned a lot of information and met a lot of amazing people. They all have spiked my interest very high on wanting to become a firefighter. My girlfriend's dad and my football teammates' dad, who were friends coincidentally both had spiked my interest a lot more. As others would say the brotherhood, family, money, retirement, and culture are all reasons WHY of being a firefighter. Like don’t get me wrong those are some amazing opportunities that a lot of other jobs don’t have but I truly don’t think those are my reasons why to become a firefighter. It took me some time to truly think on what is my actual WHY and I think I believe I've found it. My real WHY on becoming a firefighter is, I'm simply afraid of being a failure in life and perceived as a failure. All my life I’ve grown up around family members that were in the military or first responder. So it pushed me to be a person who just wants to be successful in life as a first responder. So far in my life I've been successful with doing dual enrollment, high school, sports, working, and passing high school. It made me start to realize that I have so much potential in life and that I simply can not become a failure. It made a lot of my family members look up to me, especially the ones that are successful already. I have family members who smoke, drink, do drugs, work 9-5 office jobs, and are failing in life with the bad choices they’ve made. Just looking at those family members I don’t want to be like that. I love the career as a firefighter and what the job forces you to do. It forces you to wake up everyday even if you don’t want to. You get to have fun at work with your best friends breaking stuff and putting fire out. It forces you to see what reality is, that you're gonna be put into situations that require the strongest will from people.