 G'day, my name is Cal Steele. What I did before the CFA was I was a surveyor's assistant and worked into a party-leading surveyor in the civil frame of work. What I did with my spare time, I like to go out and do a bit of forward-driving with mates, get out for a bit of a fish and hang around out in the bush. What I knew about the CFA before I joined here was I was a volunteer for several years before I started recruits. The most important thing about course so far is definitely the group of mates that we've met here. They're all a great bunch of guys and we'll be friends with each other for a long time to come. The toughest part of being a firefighter will definitely be the pressures of work and the expectation to perform at an extremely high level during hard tasks. I wanted to become a firefighter because I wanted a job to do that I could be proud of. I tell my friends and family that I do a job that I love every day and I get up every day in the morning and go to a place that I really enjoy being.