 Hi, I'm Bradley Clarkson. Before I joined the CFA as a career staff member, I was a volunteer firefighter for 10 years. Looking forward to making a career out of it. The most rewarding thing about the recruit training is finding out the new levels that I could push myself to. I didn't know I could feel so much pain, but I have, and it's made me a better person. The toughest part of being a firefighter, I reckon, would be the emotional side of it. Just dealing with people's losses of life and property, but see if I have a lot of good processing in place to deal with it. Why I became a firefighter is because ever since I was 16, it's all I wanted to do, so because I couldn't apply full-time, I applied to be a volunteer, and volunteering has been in my blood since a young age, so it felt good.