Like many Israelis, I have multiple lives/one life with concurrent themes.
Combat Medic/Chief Medic - sometimes full time, sometimes part time until '88. Trained in airborne, medical rescue, and armoured recon. The IDF said my second medical discharge in 8 years was my last, so excluded against my will from further combat duty. Kept up last year with disaster medicine training at the IDF school for combat medicine. Will probably miss this year's training.
Rabbi, Master Teacher cert., BSc in Health Sciences, and now working on a BSN. Board certified Flight Paramedic.
Flight Paramedic for a very eclectic outfit. Chief Flight Nurse is a Lt. in the USN. He's a Moslem, but calls me (the Rabbi) his spiritual advisor. Oy Vey! Other crew are from the Marines, USAF, Army, etc. We get to do cool stuff. I'm the 'foreign representative'.
Ground Paramedic and training officer for a rural ambulance service, part volunteers/part paid.
Dog handler (yellow Labrador) for a canine SAR crew. Paramedic for a backcountry SAR team specializing in mountain and medical rescues.
Was a synagogue rabbi (Orthodox) for two years; taught for about 20. That's my first love. No call for that out here; so I do other things that used to be part-time.
Married to a toxicologist/pathologist/family practice doc who works for a not-so-secrect secret US gov't facility that keeps getting in the news for their security mess-ups.
4 grown-up kids. One engineer at another gov't lab (with better security); one biologist/lab tech at a local big hospital; one foresic anthropology grad. deciding about grad school (did you want fries with that?); one full-time hippie on the road somewhere worrying her poor father half to death.
With a life like that, who needs compartmentalized hobbies?
