 Hi, my name is Brett Nick Gorka. Before CFA I was an aircraft tech based in Geelong. I've been doing that for a couple years previous to CFA. Some of my hobbies are catching up with friends and socialising, mucking around with cars and I love my music. Before CFA I was an aircraft tech based down in Geelong. I've been doing that for a couple years and previous to that I was a welder. I was a volunteer before applying for recruits. I've been a volunteer for about seven years prior to this. I'm at Hamilton Fire Brigade and now at Balmont Fire Brigade. The most rewarding thing about the recruit training, I think it is getting to know a group of people that you'll be lifelong friends with and people that will be in an organisation and you'll be working with those people. It's a really great thing to get out of the course and you already know people in the organisation. Some of the toughest things about being a firefighter would probably be seeing some things that you probably wouldn't want to see on a everyday basis. Also maybe getting out of bed at 3am but we can all live with that. I always wanted to do firefighting since I was a young fella. When I was 15 I was doing station visits as early as I could and getting in there as much as I could. That's another reason why I became a volunteer.