I spent years avoiding EMT training. Then I finally did it.
Reasons I didn't become an EMT, ranked
A software engineer who delayed getting his EMT license for years finally took a 28-day NOLS Wilderness EMT course in 2024. He ranks the 21 excuses he made, from the reasonable (time, cost, culture) to the ridiculous (fear of quitting tech to become a paramedic), and finds that most of them were just fear talking.
The bulk of the job is waiting around, doing paperwork, cleaning, and backing up narrow driveways. It is very frequently boring & aimless. But that tedium is because you are waiting & ready to help. So it is indirectly glamorous.