Feeling help: Do you reach for impossible heights, or accept that you wasnt made for the skies.. - Help.com

Maybe you can do it online?
Have a look:
“Paramedic Training at Online Distance Education Schools” (U.K.): http://www.ehow.co.uk/facts_6101637_p… & http://education-portal.com/online_pa…

Its wonderful that you have the drive to want to become a paramedic and want to serve others. Having children is a huge responsibility and its understandable that you are concerned you may not have the time. Its not understandable that you should accept that life is over because you had kids or that you are not clever.

To even think of wanting to keep moving forward in life is an intellignet act in itself. You would never consider being a paramedic if deep down you believed its impossible for you to achieve. You are clever.

Here is what I think based on my own personal experiences:
We often get an intense desire to do something out of the ordinary. It grates at us and won’t leave us alone. It may be inspired by anything like something you saw, heard or felt. Sometimes these desires are genuine and life is telling us something- like following our calling or purpose in life. On the other hand and quite often many of these desires are generated emotionally and may actually be nothing but temporary fantasies that lead us down the wrong path and end up wasting our time, money and energy.

So what do you do when you have a strong desire like the one you are experiencing? First, you need to determine whether its real and worthwhile or not. So, I suggest that you don’t get over excited but go along with the thoughts. Look into what being a paramedic entails. Don’t be fooled by the T.V. programs or what you see. Get into the details of what it will take to get there. So perhaps go online for info on what courses are available, cost, how long it will take, are the hours totally inconvenient for you etc.? Speak to 3-4 female paramedics about their experiences especially those with children. Pool all this information together and then have a meeting with yourself about how you can realistically make it happen, can you make it happen?

In other words do your homework and all the background checks. Go with the thoughts but don’t commit just yet. Give it time. The idea is to get the emotional perspective out of the way and consider being a pramedic from a logical and ‘is it feasible’ perspective.

Again from my experience, if the desire is real and is leading you somewhere, you will find everything falling miraculously into place. It will be easy and there would be no complications following that path. Somehow, you ‘get the help’ you need when it really is your destiny to follow a certain path. However, if you are not meant to become a paramedic, you will find yourself opposed on every front. Nothing will work out, not the finances, not the course time and not with your personal life. Take that as a message that it in unlikely to work out and it was no more but your brain trying to formulate some emotional escape temporary feeling. Take that message seriously, and don’t try to force things or make things happen anyway.

In general, take your time in deciding and don’t rush anything. You will know if you are meant to be a paramedic despite everything you think is against you.

The richest people in this world aren’t usually the smartest . . . there’s a lot of poor smart people!

You don’t have to be super-intelligent to be successful.

But you shouldn’t think of yourself as being inferior to anyone else, either!