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My profession is a train maker | Choice of profession. how to choose the right profession

My profession is a train maker | Choice of profession. how to choose the right profession

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? My profession is called Train Constructor. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? Officially, my job is to "form and disband the rolling stock." In fact, this translates into a rearrangement of cars, in a certain order, which is based on knowledge of instructions, great personal experience, and sometimes developed intuition. All this fuss and a lot of movement have only one goal - "SEND THE COMPOSITION ON TIME". This is the number one priority, after following safety precautions. 3. What education is required to get your position? Education, for this profession, plays a secondary role (sometimes four months of study at DorTechSchool is enough), work experience is valued first of all. To be able to work independently, it takes at least a year to “pass in the disciples”, and for some, even three years is not enough to understand all the subtleties of this work. 4. Describe your working day. The working day begins with a general planning meeting, where all shift workers receive safety briefings. Then a shift change takes place, at which the “strict inventory” and the location of the cars in the “car park” are accepted. Together with the Station Duty Officer, work is planned for the near future. And the work begins... Work is twelve hours of “hanging on the wagons”, “pulling the automatic coupler”, running from end to end of the train and endless chatting with the walkie-talkie on duty with “mandatory compliance with the rules of negotiations”. There are, of course, good days when there is not much work, and it even turns out not only to have lunch, but also to smoke for half an hour on a bench .... It just doesn't happen often. Even if there is no urgent dispatch work, you always need to: prepare a train for the next electric locomotive, fill out a “strict inventory” journal, personally check the received cars, and many other things that also need to be done sometime. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day outside, or in the office with a cup of coffee)? The conditions are difficult, you have to work outdoors, in any weather. You need to walk at best on coarse gravel, at worst on wet clay or snowdrifts and walk a lot and often. There are constantly moving cars and trains around. Well, a trip to the "special bandwagon of the last car" during a snowstorm, facing the wind .... Whoever has not tried this will not appreciate it. 6. What do you like most about your job? One does not dream of such a job in childhood. The work is hard, dangerous, responsible and at the same time not at all heroic .... But as in any other, if you are a professional and know your business, then something in this business catches the eye…. I don’t know what it is, but it is possible to realize one’s own “coolness”, regardless of the opinions of others. 7. What do you dislike most about your job? I hate night shifts the most. I really want to sleep and at the same time you need to be extremely careful. This is not only a physical load, but also a great nervous tension. 8. If it's not a secret, your salary levelarmor (is it enough to write satisfied or not)? The salary is high enough for me to keep working. But at the same time, I think it is completely unfair for this profession. 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? The team is quite colorful and diverse, but at the same time very well-coordinated. Everyone understands that in our business you will be lost without teamwork, sometimes, in the truest sense of the word, you have to trust your life to colleagues. Therefore, if someone could not fit into the team, he had to leave. 10. What human qualities, in your opinion, are most important in your business? First of all, high professionalism and integrity. Well, you can add communication. After all, despite the fact that there are iron cars around, you have to work with living people, and the ability to find mutual understanding is very important. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). Money, money and once again money only because of them I work here (some benefits, special experience and extended vacation can be brought under the same category). Neither self-expression, nor new interesting people in other countries, this profession does not provide. This is not a “favorite business of a lifetime”, but an ordinary job for making money. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Probably all the same 4. After all, this is my way to earn bread and butter, I think there are worse jobs .... 13. Why did you choose this job? I did not choose, fate endured ... The story is banal, I was left without a job, money was needed .... The station urgently needed a worker, so they took it. I thought I would work “until things get better”, but I stayed that way. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? There seems to be nothing more to add. And just like I went to confession. Of course, you can tell a lot more, but this is already a long evening over a glass of beer, for those who are especially interested .... 0