The first fire alarm was a person.

Hearing screaming at the top of your lungs alerting people to a fire breaking out is alarming. What William F. Channing and Moses Farmer, the first people to create the very first fire alarm (that wasn't a person), understood was we need to figure out a way to protect lives more efficiently then shrieking for our lives. The system comprised of two fire alarm boxes with telegraphic key and a handle that would alert the fire department to send their crew to the location.

A drawback of cranking a handle to alert the fire department is it didn't give you much time to actually escape the fire.

Fast forward to 1890 and an associate of Thomas Edison named Francis Robbins Upton patented the first automatic electric fire alarm that eliminated the step of standing around cranking a handle when a fire started.

Head on up to 1902 in Birmingham, England and you have George Andrew Darby who patented the first electrical heat and smoke detector.

1930 Swiss physicist Walter Jaeger was working towards a sensor for poison gas.

Point is as long as there is lives to be protected there will never be a shortage of innovators trying to get ahead of a disaster. People who understand the necessity of being prepared for the worst possible outcome.

This post is for everyone in our fire life safety industry who feels pride in their career path. The ones that realize they can't continue the way they've always done it.

Enormous changes are taking place in the industry and the challenges we face may help you accept the need for change.

If you are coasting where you are, the longer you coast, the more you have to lose.

Staying in the same job for to long you are losing money. There is a limit to how high your manager can increase your salary. Don't feel an urgent need for a change? Look for a new job anyway. Are there certain role models or mentors you look up to that you may want to be like someday?

That day may never come if you stagnate in the same job.

Mason Group is committed to not making you feel like change is being done to you but to bring you along with us so that you can believe in that change.

Our frontline workers have the best understanding of the real problems and impact of change and I have been one and speak to them on a daily basis.

If you want to see a new opportunity in the fire alarm, and fire sprinkler life safety industry please contact me. Change is difficult, but the benefits will outweigh the cons in ways you can not even imagine possible, both professionally and personally.

-Daniel Miller

A recruiter