Camean

Hello everybody, I have recently received the canvassing letter from Town of Mamaroneck. I had also received the canvassing letter from Scarsdale last year, but ultimately never got a call for anything regarding that. The fact that I now got a letter from Mamaroneck does that mean that Scarsdale is no longer a possibility for me?

The return by date on the letter was July 28th. I'm sure they are aware this is after the practice test. Can it be there is more than one practice test?

There is no confusion. I know that the starting pay is too low to sustain my current household and the top pay exceeded my expectation. You could argue "absurdly" is a poor choice of words. But to be honest, it was 1:15am and I was tired and excited by the chance at the career. As I said, I'd do it for much less. It's not about the money as long as it's enough to keep my home. You say it's "silly" and "selfish" to be worried whether or not I can support my family. I have to disagree. As far as research, I attempted. It's how I found this site. As far as the right/wrong reasons or who does/doesn't deserves it, I'm not sure why you would even add this in a reply to me. I've never expressed my motivation for this career. If you have issues with people getting on the job, I respectfully ask you leave me out of it.

Yes. That pay seems absurdly high..i would be very happy with much less. Needless to say I will try my hardest to qualify going forward. Ladder44 and dwcfireman, thank you. Very helpful, I'm glad I came here.

I appreciate your input, and you're right, I can make it work for a period of time. But my wife and I just bought a house and my second son is on the way. Saying the starting pay shouldn't be considered would just be irresponsible. I've heard that it may be possible to keep my current employment and be a fire fighter, which would solve the problem. If that is not possible then I need to know what long term pay is like. I can't keep my home on 38k. I will call Monday and try to get a answer on the pay scale. again, I appreciate you're comments. But telling me "you can make it work" without tell me for how long i'll have to "make it work" is not helpful.

I just got a canvassing letter for the village of Scarsdale. The salary on the letter said $37,500. I was shocked to see the pay so low. Does anyone know what top pay is like? I can't afford that big of a pay cut unless it gets a lot better.