Here’s a little about myself. I identify as a little old dyke. I don’t care what you call me; intent is what matters. In 2025, I turned 51 and had been with my wife for 29 years. We are both avid dog parents. Mainly Belgian Shepherds, although we have had a couple of rescues, including a German and two mutts. We currently live with a soulless ginger cat, an elderly Belgian Shepherd and a very young Chihuahua. We also have a flock of chickums. My very favorite thing is training animals and teaching humings. I grew up in the Lower Mainland of BC and have lived in A LOT of towns/cities there. Now we live in the Cariboo. I moved out of my Mom’s house at a pretty early age and have worked (mostly) since I was ten, starting with a paper route for four years and babysitting. The last grade I completed was grade seven. I started caregiving at sixteen years of age and did that for sixteen years total, learning absolutely everything they would teach me, which, as an accredited training facility, was a lot. This is where I met my wife. I started in industry in 2007 after leaving the special needs company we, my wife and I, worked for. I got my OFA 3, Occupational First Aid Level 3, and moved to the Cariboo of BC. We always wanted a large piece of forest, and that’s what we bought. I had plans to work away, half the time. Industrial medics get paid quite well, depending on the industry slightly. Chaos ensued; we got custody of my brother’s eldest son. Instead of working half the time, I ended up working nearly all the time & learning a ton. This way, my wife could stay home with my biological nephew. He was technically a LVL 3 foster child requiring line-of-sight care. She was a far better choice for him. She was born to be a parent and worked more with behavioral clients, while I leaned toward the medically fragile clients. If it were me, one of us would have died. I worked my first 1.5 years at a sawmill, worked a dam crew at a mine for a summer, and helped build two of the high-rises in the Olympic Village in Vancouver. In 2009, I upgraded to an Advanced OFA 3, so I could work in Alberta too, and started in the oilpatch. In 2014, due to our contracting oil company’s changing their drilling rig medic requirements, I became a licensed EMR. I’m pretty sure I’ve worked in every area of the oil patch, from seismic & archeological surveying to abandonments and revetments. I have worked for fourteen medic companies. I was also the HSE Manager for a small to medium-sized medic company for a short period of time.