• August 01, 2023

1. What is the name of your profession (position)? My profession is commonplace - a truck driver. 2. What is your job and what are your responsibilities? I have my own Tatra truck. The work during the year is divided into two stages. First and foremost, in the winter season I carry out various orders, as a rule, for the delivery of cargo to hard-to-reach places in the Irkutsk, Chita regions, sometimes Buryatia or to the south of Yakutia. Most often, these are equipment and materials for gold mining or oil companies, or firms serving them. My direct duty is to deliver the goods on time and accurately. Auxiliary duties - car repair and regular paperwork related to the activities of a private entrepreneur. In the warm season, there are fewer orders, a lot of roads become impassable, and then I leave for the “mainland” to my family, where I do household chores and sometimes I taxi in a car. A month and a half before the winter season, I return, meet pre-ordered spare parts, sort out the car, and hit the road again. 3. What education is required to get your position? I think the average is enough in combination with a driver's license of categories C, E, although I have a higher education. 4. Describe your working day. Rather, it is necessary to describe a specific flight, and not a day. I wake up, breakfast, shower. The travel backpack has been assembled since the evening. I go out to the car, start it and warm it up, go for loading. Somewhere in the afternoon, all the troubles with loading and paperwork end, and I move forward to the goal. If everything is fine, then during the day I stop a couple of times to eat. If there is somewhere, this is a roadside cafe, and if civilization is behind, then, in principle, I can eat for a couple of weeks without leaving the cabin. I go somewhere until one in the morning, then, if the coverage allows the Internet, and sleep for 5-6 hours, and so on until the end. Of course, along the way, stops are inevitable to communicate with friends (there is only one road), to repair the wheels, and just to stretch. After unloading I go back. About the arrival I try to sleep off, be sure to look at the car, and the cycle begins anew. 5. How comfortable are your working conditions (all day on the street, or in the office with a cup of coffee). While I'm driving, the conditions are normal. But about two-thirds of my journey is on conditionally passable roads. This is just shaking when you drive for 8 hours at a speed of up to 30 km / h, this is ice, this is working with a shovel, using a winch, helping others in different situations. Sometimes unforeseen repairs in the field. Normal male work in general. 6. What do you like most about your job? Traveling in the "norths", like in London. There is something in this from the time of the conquest of the earth, this is not in the cities. No routine, always a new challenge. And, of course, meeting different people, many of whom “have matted faces, but a silky soul, and in cities it’s more often the other way around” (V.S. Vysotsky). How do you like, for example, a person who grows lemons and watermelons when it is -43 C outside? 7. What do you dislike most about your job? The beginning of spring, when you realize that withseason ends. 8. If it's not a secret, what is your salary level (is it enough to write whether you are satisfied or not)? I have regular customers, so in many ways, income depends on me and on luck. For the last season, net profit amounted to 21,200 USD. It suits me, though I had to "plow". 9. Describe your team, what kind of people work with you? My colleagues are very different people, and you can't write about all of them here. This is the topic of a separate story about the road. 10. What human qualities, in your opinion, are most important in your business? Self confidence. Attention to details. Accuracy and calmness. 11. Work gives me additional opportunities (here is everything that work gives you except money, from self-expression and communication with interesting people to the opportunity to visit different countries). The job allows me to travel, constantly meet new people and feel like a romantic. 12. Do you have the opportunity to evaluate your work on a five-point scale, what grade would you give? Five plus 13. Why did you choose this job? One day it became uninteresting for me to be an office plankton and work for the sake of another mobile phone, going to another nightclub. Tired of emptiness and stupid fuss around. I wanted the real thing. 14. What do you think we did not include in the plan and what else would you like to share with us? Can not say. Perhaps for the description of the profession, the questionnaire is exhaustive. Although …. Age. I'm 32. And experience. -seven years. 0