I wish I could say I love my job..
How the guys in blue that work for our modern emergency response teams can go thru life, and remain sane is one of the bigger questions of life. Imagine all the shit they see at work.
I really wish I could say I love my job. But I don’t. It is not me. But today [at least] it got exciting when some poor woman collapsed just two meters away from where I was standing.
Too sad the only excitement at work should be on someone else being unlucky and getting seriously ill.
What intrigues me the most when things like this happen is how people react. If they react that is.
Some people just stand still and do nothing.
Others run around like chickens without heads.
Others sneak away trying to not get involved.
Myself? I get surprisingly focused and quick thinking.
So I call for my bosses: we have a serious emergency at my location please call an ambulance.
And this is where the drama really begins. We actually made that phone call twice!
For sure it can be that ambulances are far away and or busy with something else.
But to have to wait for nearly 40 minutes for them to respond to a person with a really serious condition doesn’t feel right.
I just hope she’ll be ok. Being an ex aviator I also wish we had some kind of debriefing.
Like the one I had with the good doctor in the link I dropped above. Cause everybody react different on things like this. Everybody are not strong enough to just shake real life drama and trauma of their shoulders.
How the guys in blue that work for our modern emergency response teams can go thru life, and remain sane is one of the bigger questions of life. Imagine all the shit they see at work.
Everyday.
Day in, day out.
Year in, year out.
I said it before, and will stick to it. The men and women in blue are real life heroes.
And for me, I am not much of a hero.
I go to work, I do the things I am expected to do.
No more, no less.
But, I have a dream. Part of the dream is why I am writing my blog. My dream is to reclaim my career in media.
Not as much as the photographer I used to be that was writing on the side. But the other way around, as in becoming a writer with photography on the side.
I am also sketching on a podcast series for another project of mine. On paper it feels like a good idea. How to execute it feels like a complete other story. I am also thinking of connecting a smaller podcast to Saving Memories.
Maybe I should just do it. If you’d like to stick with me please hit the subscribe button.