The beginning of the frequent titles of our written works in elementary school, when the choice of profession was often mentioned: astronaut, pilot, soldier, doctor, scientist, athlete, firefighter or policeman...
I remembered all those fantasies of mine when I came across one of the topics chosen for us by galenkp in this week's #weekend-engagement:
Would you rather be an emergency doctor at a hospital, a zoo keeper or a police crime scene investigator?
Although I love animals, I don't think I would ever choose a career as a zookeeper. Maybe because I love them and I wouldn't feel good watching their sadness in captivity?
And maybe because I'm not ready to spend my entire working life taking care of animals, which are like in some hotel...
I listened to stories as a child, from various friends of my mother, some acquaintances, grandmothers, aunts and uncles: "He is my drunken animal, he just comes home, dirty and smelly, from work and from the pub and falls into bed where he sleeps for half the day, while I have to cook for him, wash him, iron him and clean up after him. While I am a housewife, like a slave, he enjoys treatment like in a hotel".
In my generation, such stories can no longer be heard, in essence, me and my peers, we try to do housework together with women, we often clean ourselves, turn on the washing machine, iron, and most of us cook much better than them...
Probably those stories about husbands wouldn't be the reason why I wouldn't work as a zookeeper.
If the offer was for a ranger in nature, in a national park, I might think about it.
I have always had precise, craftmen hands, a good sense of space, good logic, a strong stomach and a keen eye for detail.
For this reason, when I was choosing a direction to enroll in high school, I was on the fence about whether to go in the direction: medicine or engineering.
I chose technology, where I am today, but I'm sure that if I had turned to medicine, some surgery would have been my choice (I believe that because I'm not squeamish, even exercises and an exam in pathology would not be a problem for me).
Maybe a job in medicine would lead me to the position of a doctor in the emergency center of a hospital, but I think it's a job with an excessive amount of stress, because at the moment, a person's life depends on your decision, which should be an emergency.
And working in the police (in which I don't really have any confidence at the moment, probably because for the last year and a half, I've been shouting ACAB in the streets and holding up a banner with the number 1312, which could also be a story for another topic this week - What do I think about the government and do I raise my voice...) can be just as stressful.
And in that profession, fractions of a second separate a situation from a tragedy...
And in the police, just like with doctors, you work in shifts, there are on-duty duties, lines of responsibility and command, and police officers, like doctors, are often witnesses of death and suffering, sadness and misfortune...
I don't need that in my life at all.
However, the profession of a police officer who is a crime scene investigator, I think comes with less stress.
When an investigator enters the scene, the crime has already happened, someone has been killed and your speed is not crucial...
Then the stress can mostly arise from the demands of the bosses and the people themselves, that the culprit be discovered and prosecuted as soon as possible.
A crime scene is certainly never a nice scene, and I think that my lack of disgust would help me here, because several times in my life I had the opportunity to smell the stench of a dead animal, to see a lot of blood, to pick up some dirty object from which everyone else would run away...
And as a crime scene investigator, my innate logic, reasoning power and eye for detail would definitely help me.
Yesterday, before I saw the topics for this week, I received a package with the inscription "PROOF", which I was supposed to open and perform an expert examination of the device that was in the package.
It's not exactly a scene from a crime scene, but it's certainly related to an investigation, this time with my technical background.
I left the package closed over the weekend, so on Monday, when my working hours start, I get down to work.
If I had chosen in my life to do any of the three offered jobs, to feed animals in the Zoo or to be an emergency doctor, that job would not have been able to wait for the weekend to pass.
And certainly not even the scene of the crime could remain without a visit and a detailed examination from Friday at 3 pm to Monday at 7 am...
Finally, in the style of the written task from the title of the post, I can write (out of the three jobs offered) I would choose to be a police crime scene investigator.
And if someone were to ask me if I would trade my hectic job (current one for 20 years) for the one I wrote to choose, I would probably say thank you and decline the offer.
Today, more than ever, I would not accept the badge of the police - corrupt and in league with criminals and the criminal elite of the state.
Well, dear people, the police chief of the city where I live was arrested yesterday, who was a witness to a murder in a conflict between two criminals and who helped the killer to hide his tracks and throw the murdered man's corpse by the side of the highway and set it on fire with gasoline.
https://www.serbianmonitor.com/en/belgrade-police-chief-arrested/
Hmm, interesting crime scene...
