Josh Sauberman

Josh Sauberman

Josh Sauberman is the author of the Journey To Firefighter blog http://journeytofirefighter.com and a recent graduate of Los Medanos college, where he earned an A.S. in Fire Technology and graduated from the fire academy. Originally from New York, he earned his B.S. in Business at the University of Arizona in Tucson, AZ. Josh currently lives in the San Francisco suburb Walnut Creek, and has most recently worked as an EMT, following a 10 year career in sales and recruiting. In his spare time, Josh works out, builds websites for entrepreneurs, cooks up catastrophes in the kitchen, and volunteers his way toward the career he plans to retire from: Firefighting.

My Articles

My First Oral Board

I recently had my first oral board interview, and here I am going to tell about the experience; what it was like, and what I learned.

At this point in my pursuit of a fire service career I’ve taken only a handful of tests and only recently had my first panel interview.  I had assumed going into the interview that the panel would be made up of a variety of firefighters and senior officers from the department, but it turned … Read the rest

To EMT Or Not To EMT?… That is the Question.

As FireCareer’s youngest and most inexperienced blogger in terms of firefighting/fire-career experience (excluding Dr. Jen Milus who works with firefighters, but is not one),  my value to readers is my ability to see things quite clearly from your point of view.   That is of course because I am living, or have just gone through exactly what you’re going through.  Unlike the other accomplished fire veterans who write here at FireCareers, I do not have decades of experience.  I’m a new guy like … Read the rest

Firefighting – Is It Worth It?

Becoming a firefighter is anything but easy. Consider, these days nursing is becoming a hugely popular career route, especially here in the San Francisco Bay Area where salaries are the highest in the nation. Recent RN graduates around here can’t find jobs for months and for some, over a year. well boo-hoo! Try getting into firefighting where the average time to get hired runs 5 years!

There aren’t too many careers out there that are quite as hard to break … Read the rest