/fa/ - Fashion

>>12292248
I work as an EMT, gearing up for paramedic school and looking to med school after that. Having a timepiece with a second hand strapped to my wrist is essential to performing my job, as I need to be able to document times and count seconds without a free hand. I used to use a cheap quartz watch (pic related, it lives on my backpack strap now), but the battery died on me mid-call so I now wear mechanical watches. My fire chief and EMS captain both wear mechanical dive watches, as do many others in the department.

Working construction, I also made good use of a wrist watch. My dive watch would hold up in environments and working conditions that had everyone else leaving their phones behind, so I was often the only one with any idea what time it was. There were also plenty of times when there wasn't really time to stop working to pull out a phone, but there was time to steal a quick glance at a watch.

Just because you have time to play with your phone all day doesn't mean the rest of us also aren't doing anything with our lives.