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What is a day like for an Emergency Management Professional?

I will be going for a Masters in Emergency Management after I attain my Bachelors in Public Adminstration from UCF with a minor in emergency management. After getting my Bachelors I want to spend a year of service with FEMACorp to make sure this is a field I could love. If I had a better idea of day to day functions, that could help a lot with making my decision
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Gary’s Answer

Besides FEMA, VOAD and Red Cross, there are many other companies and industries that look for emergency management planning. Utility, large facility operators, city planners and property management companies look to hire emergency planning managers. Disaster planning and running mobile operations is a very strategic profession that are in demand, especially today more than ever with the many natural disasters that are occurring from global warming. This may be another avenue for your to investigate how these companies operate their emergency preparedness plans. Each of these companies or industries can offer a wide variety of interests that differ from government planning.

Best of luck in your search!
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This is a loaded question, Zoe! There are seldom 2 days alike as an emergency manager. There are so many ways for emergency managers to work in the disaster sector that a day for some may be a 12 hour shift in an ops center 1000 miles from a disaster and a day spent taking 200 in-person registrations for individual assistance in a tent a couple of blocks away from the strike zone. The one constant truth is that there is that you will not get bored.


Your idea of joining FEMA Corps to get some boots-on-the-ground experience is a great way to start vetting your expectations. You might also look into NCCC, another AmeriCorps disaster program: https://www.nationalservice.gov/programs/americorps/americorps-nccc Either will put you in the field to see how the framework and plans are executed in real time as well as the preparation going on in communities year round.


Since you are also studying public ministration, you might find volunteering with a Voluntary Organization Active in Disaster (VOAD) would be an invaluable glimpse behind the curtain of emergency operations. The American Red Cross ( http://www.redcross.org/volunteer/become-a-volunteer#step1 ) is the easiest to access because they are in every community and consistently engaged in full disaster cycle engagement. Your state has a robust organanized VOAD presence: http://flvoad.communityos.org/cms/ . Take a look at what organizations are members and check into volunteer opportunities with them.

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