 Welcome back we're now on episode 2 of this amazing collaboration with the two ordinary guys so you might notice I've got the same jumper on that's because I've recorded this video these vlogs all in the same day and haven't changed my top or anything so these are actually the same day vlogs I'm not just wearing the same jumper every single day I promise you so just be mindful of that we decided to actually do the whole video we were gonna put it all together into one but then we decided it was a really long video so we've split it into four episodes for you all and I'm really excited for it so let's just get started okay okay and so why do I want to join the Ambulance Service? Obviously as you see on this channel I've got a very very very good supportive network and I'm very very thankful for it so if you have a cup of tea thank you raise your glass in pride I'm very thankful for the family I have on this channel I've always had a very supportive family growing up they've always pushed me to achieve my dreams they've always said you know if you want to do this this is how you can do it and I'm very very grateful to have my dad and my mum that I can really aspire to be like they've driven me from a very young age into my mind that work ethic is not just from grades like if you want something you can get to it different ways you know what I'm trying to say so but what I'm trying to say is when I was at school I used to have a lazy eye and I had an operation that now you I made a video on my operation but yeah I had a lazy eye I wasn't very academic strong and so I become the class clown to sort of tackle this you know I wanted to be I don't know I wanted to be remembered in school it sounds really stupid and we're in school and was both was all saying our aspirations for life and I've never really I never really made it apparent that I wanted to be a paramedic in school I just kept it to myself it was just sort of a you know a kind of a dream it sounded really you know it's really hard to get to parent science and I didn't really think I'd do it but I just thought yeah that's what I want to do but it's amazing job who wouldn't want to go into paramedic science and so we're going around the classroom people saying they wanted to be a vet they wanted to be doctors pretty good yeah it's pretty good and I respect to their decisions that that's what they wanted to do you know why why can't they why can't they do that they're quite smart I mean I was in triple science it's very it's very hard to be in triple science you had like nine lessons of science a week and it's very academic strong and that wasn't the sort of person I am and I was kind of I felt I wouldn't say pushed out of the group but it was the teaching that really pushed me out and they sort of targeted me thinking I'll start obviously as it was at school I wanted to be the class class to be remembered like I said and I was kind of targeted by the teacher then it kind of had it was kind of hard going through school and not being smart and not being good at biology or chemistry or physics and I the sort of person I am I'm only good at something if I put my mind to it and it's something I want to do I can't really focus on something if it's not what I want to do or benefit me in the future and I didn't really think in that situation then I felt targeted by the teachers so I'm not targeting any teachers at my school and so yeah we went around and people were saying that they're aspirations and I said a paramedic science I want to go into paramedic science I want to be a paramedic and obviously because I wasn't very good at science or maths or English or anything like that everyone laughed and my confidence was like yeah and then when they said that it was like bush you know I left school you know through I would I would to be honest I would class it as bullying they were laughing and joking at the fact I wanted to be a paramedic people making jokes on my eye and it was kind of demoralizing for anyone if anyone wanted to be something people were laughing at you it is hard and some of them watch my channel now some of them have been have been really supportive in the past when I was at school you guys will know who you are watching this video and obviously the people that was supportive in school you'll also know the people that wasn't supportive in school so you'll know where I'm coming from recording this video I left school and I joined college and I did health and social care and we went on placements and I worked I went on placement to a care home which is very local to where I live and I was there for two weeks and I really really enjoyed it on my first day though it was kind of it was kind of hard because the first day I was next to a guy that had a stroke and the very is kind of my very first interaction with the paramedics they was called and they did obviously the fast test and they were very fast to take him into hospital unfortunately when he arrived the hospital he did actually pass away but you know the job they do is amazing and I couldn't fault for the care they did it was very fast it was very efficient and obviously resting piece of that guy I mean he was he was such a lovely lovely man so it is sad and that is the downside of working in care you bond with these the residents in the in the home and obviously where Claire would know going to nursing you do bond such amazing things with your with your residents and your patients at the hospital or at the care home so it's sad when they when they go so that was my first interaction with paramedics and I thought wow so I went home and I did a lot of research into you know paramedics there you know they're I think they do the career aspirations of where can you go from being a paramedic there's a lot of avenues you can go down which I'm going to mention later on in this video so I did that I went home and I researched very very intensely into paramedic science and then that I think that's what sort of boosted me off that's what took me off into the direction of paramedic science because I wasn't really sure whether whether it was nursing or paramedic science I wanted to go into I was very adamant I wanted to give back to society I was very adamant I wanted to join the NHS but I didn't know what avenue I wanted to go down efficiently then but and now I'm living here I'm here at the moment time and I'm 29 days away from starting my student paramedic dream and yeah in this video I wanted to collab with Claire because she mentioned that she didn't have a very good start and I had a lot of people message me in the past saying like well did you finish with good grades and honestly I'm saying no I didn't finish with good grades and I don't want people to think that when they leave school you know they didn't do very well the teachers would be very disappointed they say well you know you know and I and one of the teachers in school did say to me that I'm not going to get very far in life and hearing that from you know teachers that you're supposed to look up to and aspire from say that it does kind of knock you so if you are leaving school right now and you haven't really had the best grades because this is going to go up around results day as well if you if you've just found out your grades and you found out that you didn't do that well sit down have a cry I did and grab a cup tea coffee or something like that and just think okay I didn't do that well where can I go next where can I apply to that's going to get me here I started college at level 2 and I worked up and eventually I finished my level 3 extended diploma in half on social care and now I'm starting university so don't let grades put you off guys that's one might one message I want you to take away from this video is don't let grades you know take your dreams away if you have the passion and determination that you can do something you can do it and so yeah I told you this is going to be a sensitive subject and yeah over to either Jacob or Claire on their reason so the first question is why I wanted to become a paramedic might have caught an interesting story and you might ask someone who's a paramedic and they might say I want to be paramedic so five years old or wanted to be a paramedic since I'm eight I'm not like that and I actually grew up wanting to be a police officer I wanted to go into the police force but look at me I can't imagine myself taking down someone I'm like 5 foot 6 I'm relatively skinny so I can't do that and Wayne's health and social care and my tutor he kind of he's a paramedic for quite a number of years and he also used to be a firefighter and seeing how he expressed his stories and seeing how much he really can really tell he loved his job I want to do that you don't you don't have to be big and strong to be a paramedic I guess you don't have to be big and strong to be a police officer actually but I wanted to do that wanted to do what he did and I did I joined how such care and this is me and car went public services together so we joined how such care and that my tutor that day really got on put that seat in my head to become a paramedic and then over the next year I had experiences like I had something to do my grandma she slit her hand open and I had to deal with that and just reading up on it and seeing stories and you know you see these TV shows I didn't really want I didn't really want to come paramedic from TV shows I know it helped see how they helped people but I didn't want to just because of the TV show if not I mean so yeah it was it's such a massive deal for me to be a paramedic and yeah I just literally go away and I want to be a paramedic for a lot reason sorry I'm just near the curtain because I cannot see and I want to be a paramedic when I started when about midway through public services and I just wanted to help that's why I want to become paramedic if it means that I don't know I can and sadly that weren't enough then I will accept that and at least I know I don't know I can at working at the care home actually kind of expressed how much I want to become paramedic you kind of like times it by 10 just because how much I love working in care and I know a lot of paramedics is elderly care and you get called out to a lot of elderly patients about quite a few paramedics and and seeing how elderly people are I just love them they're just nice they're nice to talk to and I was to be with yeah so that's why I wanted to become paramedic I wanted to become paramedic because to help people and I wanted to help your mental health as well and as you guys might know I'm quite passionate about mental health about talking about mental health and a lot of paramedics is talking to people with mental health illnesses and helping people out when they're on basically on their knees when they're when they're down so much and for you to help them for you to give them that first step is helping them is brilliant for me and I want to do that I want to help people I want to say people when they're down I know a lot of student paramedics suffer from mental health illnesses so I also kind of want to do it to improve that I know I might like I might see someone that really affects me but the course I'm going into the Worcestershire University that I'm going to they're willing to help they're they're setting up programs to help you out so that's why you know check Worcester out that's not me you know putting it out there but yeah that's what I wanted to become paramedic to help out and yeah I was quite passionate about it it's hard to kind of put into words how I feel about paramedic medicine I I kind of have this always have this urge to help out people when I'm at the care home when someone has a fall and the emergency buzzer gets pushed I always want to run up there and see what's wrong always want to run up there and see how it can help yeah I just want to be that person to help on being that person who runs into a situation where people are running away you know it's a little things I guess so why did I choose nursing mainly I chose nursing because I love it it's the simple version I've got 101 reasons why I chose nursing and it starts from when I was younger when I was about seven years old and I saw family deteriorate from cancer fortunately they passed away and it was that sort of helpless feeling that I had at the time and I didn't understand what was going on I didn't know then the first contact I had with the nurse was the district nurse coming in to see my granddad and although I didn't understand fully what was going on and what was happening I sort of had this massive respect and love for the district nurses that were coming in helping my granddad I remember that like it was yesterday so it's really fresh still in my mind and they must have made a quite a big impact on me I think for me to actually remember that and then the next time was my nan when she had cancer when I was 15 years old and not being able to deal with that at the time and not being able to cope and I really wanted to help but I didn't know how to help and instead I avoided the situation so I think just building on those little things I wanted the knowledge and the background to be able to help my own family but not only my own family because I couldn't help my own family back then I want to help others in the future sort of using a negative situation for the better if that makes sense I never thought that I could be a nurse I had no confidence I had no self-esteem I left school with really bad GCSEs and I didn't have that knowledge that I actually I could be a nurse that I could be something that I could make something of myself and I could be that person that I admired so much as a young child so I finally went into work in care homes in 2005 and that's where I really fell in love with nursing I loved the elderly I loved caring for the elderly we had district nurses again come into us and I'd always sit with them and always be really intrigued in what they were doing I loved all the wound care and all of that and I think that's now why I love community because I've always had that experience of community nurses mainly I think that's why I've got that massive love for the community nurse inside of it I see nursing as a high profession and I just I didn't think that was me until I was working with this person and she said that she was doing her nursing she come to me this one day and she said Claire I've got a boy this egg how do I boil an egg and I was like what how do you not know how to boil an egg no offense to anyone that can't boil an egg but to me because I've always cooked and I've always I've always been quite an independent person I thought how does she know how to boil an egg and she's doing a nursing I mean if she's can't boil an egg and she's doing a nursing I think I can do this I can try it so that's the initial thing that made me think do you know what if she can do it I can do it because she was a fantastic worker she was great she was fantastic care assistant at home and she was really good really knowledgeable I just thought do you know what that's an actual inspiration to me so I can do this so I found out what I had to do I found out that I had to go and do my mpq's I had to do the access course to get me into nursing so I did all that and finally long story short I'm here on the course over halfway through now guys and I'm so excited I can't wait to qualify so that's it everyone episode twos come to an end now we're gonna be having episode three on Friday don't miss it it's gonna be six o'clock and it's gonna be a really really good one so this is a behind-the-scenes vlog and this is what I'm doing right now editing the video and I don't know if you can see that editing the video and I'm on what's up to two ordinary guys so we can sort this out and that's what we do behind the scenes we have to call each other edit the videos together to make sure it runs as smoothly as possible and that's it they can't hear me so put them on mute and they've got no idea I'm actually making this video so let's put them on speaker Kyle sings distracted because I'm doing a video oh he's gonna kill me for this