AmeriCare Ambulance Service | 7 find a job anywhere he applied. The professional predicament festered into an equally burdensome emotional state and for a time, Ott had lost faith in himself as well as hope for the future. The depression was so severe as to find him, one afternoon, looking over the ledge of a high-rise in Waikiki and contemplating where his body might land below if he were to end his life. In that instance of grim desperation, Ott was suddenly struck by a new awareness, one that left him evaluating his values and priorities in terms of what really matters in life. He thought about the importance of family as well as the need to strengthen his faith with the Lord by putting it to exercise, and in a rare moment of clarity, Ott made a pact to readily respond to the first opportunity God put in his path. Remarkably, he then received a visit from his father who offered him an opportunity to start an ambulance service back home in Indiana. Ott’s father is a principal in a company that provides management services to a variety of senior healthcare communities. He explained to his son how community residents traditionally rely on transport services beyond the capacity of facilities to deliver on their own, and perhaps this could be a good professional opportunity for him. Besides, the father advised, one of Ott’s close friends from school had just completed EMS training and was also looking for a job. Though it wasn’t anything that had formerly crossed his professional considerations, Ott stayed
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