Jason Nothdurft Kidney Donor and 911 Call Center Worker
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Jason has been involved with public service most of his life, and recently
became a kidney donor!
Around the age of 12 his family did mission trips down to Kentucky for 3 of the
10 poorest counties in the country. By age 14, Jason joined the local fire
department as a junior member to follow in his family’s footsteps.
While in college, Jason, found himself interning at the state house in Trenton,
New Jersey. He was fortunate enough to be able to help work on legislation that
was eventually passed into law. Those bills include educating police, fire, and
paramedic departments on how to recognize and properly handle people with
autism. As well as a bill to protect fire fighters from being able to lose their
job while working on putting out a fire, when they are needed.
Jason figured out that he wanted to work in a 911 call center. His job is quite
demanding in both hours and stress levels. Dealing with hostage situations from
a phone, while trying to coordinate with several others via text can be hard for
anyone not dealing with a life threatening situation.
A call to action came for Jason when his best friend’s dad needed a kidney
transplant. Jason found it in himself to agree to be a kidney donor, and the
process began. Little did Jason know that donating a kidney would take two years
to happen.
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Transcription
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this is the dreamers podcast where
dreamers shared their stories to inspire
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you
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now join host Joe Pardo as he interviews
a dreamer who’s living their dreams
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yeah
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welcome to the juniors podcast I’m your
host Joe Pardo and today I’m
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interviewing Jason order was living his
dream through public service
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welcome to show Jason and thanks for a
meeting i’m glad to be a part of this
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project can be on here
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well thank you i’m really glad that you
could come out and be here in the studio
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with me let’s get started by giving some
background about yourself
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well I’m 27 years old graduated with a
ba in political science from rowan
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university in class bro and I currently
work as a police dispatcher for the
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county which covers the various law
enforcement agencies that have
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jurisdiction over the 24 towns in the
county
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you know I started in public service at
a very young age
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going back to the genesis of it all my
grandfather has spent the last 61 62
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years in the fire department somewhat
active albeit these 80-some years old
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and then my father spent 25 years in the
fire department and its continued his
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public service in other ways and we see
your family and your father and your
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grandfather you always want to mimic
them and to an extent and that’s
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something that I’ve done join the fire
department for a short time myself sorry
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going on mission trips with the church
went on to do other things with my free
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time so what would you say inspires you
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which what inspires me is the result of
a good action whether it’s seeing smile
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at someone else’s face seeing how they
