CNA vs EMT while I wait for nursing school

[CamMc]

I tried searching, but there weren't any recent threads on this topic. I am currently on a two-year waitlist for my local community college's ADN program and retaking some prereqs from my first experience with nursing school over 10 years ago. While I'm currently employed as an academic support coach for an online college program, I'm not very fulfilled by this. I'm trying to stay in this job for as long as possible because it pays pretty well and I have a fairly large sum of debt that I'm trying to get as much paid off as possible before starting nursing school. With the fact that I'm not happy with my current position (love the students I help, just not all the policies I have to stick to and that I'm not more hands-on helping), I'm considering my original plan of becoming a CNA and doing that sooner than I had originally intended to do right before starting the nursing program so I could work part-time as a CNA while in nursing school. Recently, I thought it would be very interesting to be an EMT and from what I can tell from job postings, they seem to get paid a bit more in my area and have a wider variety of places that I can work. The CNA program would definitely be faster, but as I had gone through CNA training before nursing school the first time around and I've spent a large portion of my adult life caring for adults and children with developmental disabilities, I think I have enough experience in the patient care side of things that I would like some more technical skills and to improve my confidence in acting quickly in medical situations. The downside to an EMT program is it's longer, but I think in the long run it feels more appealing to me. Any advice on which would be more helpful for my future ability to get into working at a hospital?