 Hi, my name is Lindsay Forbes. What I did before the CFA was a police officer for 10 years with Victoria Police. Before that I was also a school teacher for five years. My hobbies are like listening to music, training, spending time in the outdoors and spending time with my partner and children. What I know about the CFA is it's a rewarding career. You've got to work in a team environment. You're going to work on shift work. You're going to see lots of different traumatic things I suppose and lots of things that may be rewarding as well that you'll get to do. The most rewarding thing I guess about recruit training, number one was hopefully getting through it by next week, but definitely meeting all the people on my course and striking up relationships and friendships with them. That's basically been the most rewarding thing doing this course. Probably the toughest part of being a firefighter, I think definitely the shift work will be tough and also going to certain events that may be traumatic to the human eye. I think those two will be probably the toughest things to cope with within the fire brigade. I became a firefighter. I obviously enjoy helping people a lot and I failed as only in the police force. I wasn't really getting my hands dirty as much so I wanted to get the training and the knowledge to be able to get in there on the front line and actually be helping people basically at first hand and having that knowledge and obviously the equipment and the experience I guess to help these people as quick and as easily and as best as I could. I became a firefighter obviously as well because I needed a career change and something I've always thought I would want to do down the track. The history and the family of firefighters in there and I wanted to actually have a go at this as well and thought it would be a fairly rewarding career.