My friend - we'll call her Alice - has three children. Alice, her late husband, and the children are all firehouse people, all volunteers.
We don't talk politics much. Alice is somewhat more liberal than her children, who post things to Facebook that make me shudder. But when I was little, my mother's best friend once slapped me and said "Your mother didn't raise you like that!". I thought she was a horrible bitch, and I keep my mouth shut with other peoples' children.
Her youngest son has been a firefighter full-time for volunteer companies, city companies, and all the time has been studying safety science. When he got his degree and looked for a job, he found one really quickly.
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