wanted to tell people about the work I was doing, but I started to notice as soon as I said the words emergency management, people’s eyes glazed over. I would go to a coffee shop or a bar in Fargo and someone would ask me what I do. When I told them what I was studying, they would give me a confused look and say something along the lines of, “so you’re a firefighter?” I didn’t know how to explain what I did.
