As we approach the closing months of 2023 and head towards the beginning of 2024, the future looks very bright for me. Indianapolis EMS is now a part-time job, and I spend my days in the classrooms of Pike High School, shaping and molding the next generation of EMS professionals.

About two years ago, I set up jrcookandassociates.net and jeremiahcook.net to keep track of my journeys. Not much content is here. That’s because I have spent a lot of time working and refining my professional goals as an educator and a partner, as a father, and as a public safety professional.

Yesterday was the first day in 16 years that I haven’t worked or been on call during Thanksgiving. I woke up in the morning, I got showered and dressed, I went to visit family with my partner, her kid, and my kid. I woke up this morning with a new outlook on things. Life now is different. I go to work, I come home, and I do my best to leave work at work and home at home. There are no late night phone calls about crises in response or crashed websites, and my phone rarely rings after 8 pm.

It’s nice.

2024 is going to be a great year with new challenges and new opportunities. I am working with some other public safety partners to continue to improve the Pike EMS program and to bring the Instructor I education to a new audience.

And yes, I’m going to try and be better about posting and blogging.

Like the title says, I’m back in the saddle, and I’m looking forward to a great 2024.

–J