Do you love your job? Well, I do as it empowers me to express myself. Plus, I have really cool colleagues.
All of us chose to take up a profession only because we were good at it. There might be times when we procrastinate about choosing other paths or might even switch in the future, but whatever we are doing now is indeed adding its bit to the world around us.
A query was posed by Twitter user @MasalaBai aka Rituparna Chatterjee who asked Twitterati to name the most empowering thing about their profession. Following this, her twitter thread has been buzzing with users sharing the testimonies of their profession.
Rituparna is a journalist and she mentioned in her tweet that she loves her job because journalism amplifies the voices that would otherwise not reach the powerful people.
What is the one most empowering thing about your profession? I’ll go first.
Journalism: Amplifying the voices that otherwise would not reach the powerful.
— Rituparna Chatterjee (@MasalaBai) July 28, 2020
Here are some of the most interesting replies in her thread.
1. Lawyer – The facilitator of justice.
Lawyer: Helping people understand their rights, duties and responsibility under the law. Since ignorance is not an excuse under the law, all lawyers have a duty to keep the citizens well informed.
— Malavika (@madraj006) July 28, 2020
2. Psychiatrist – Helping people to regain mental health.
Psychiatrist: Reach to complex minds of persons with mental illness..and helps these minds with skills & ammunition integrated with science of Medicine & art of psycho-social interventions
— Dr. Om Prakash (@ompsychiatrist) July 28, 2020
3. Scientist – Going beyond the obvious for new findings to change the world for good.
Scientist (especially as a woman in STEM): Learning from a community of brilliant minds the world over; amplifying the voices of women and their groundbreaking research.
— Jayantika Chakraborty (@JayantikaChakr1) July 28, 2020
4. Ph.D. researcher – The curiosity to deep dive for more knowledge.
PhD Researcher: probably trying to understand why people choose to spend four/five long years focussed on a single topic they chose to research on with race horse determination.
Travel Blogger: encouraging more Indian women to start backpacking with their kids through my story— Deenaz Raisinghani (@denaazr) July 28, 2020
5. Public Health worker – A quintessential worker who saves communities from diseases.
Public health: reducing the morbidity & mortality of population which in turn prevent marginalization & oop expenditure induced poverty
— Bhawesh (@laybharii) July 28, 2020
6. Engineer – The ones who give shape to your imaginations.
Engineering: Omnipresent yet easily ignored profession, has power to shape this world, moon and mars where mankind barely reached.
— Amandeep Singh 🌏🙏 (@adsmustang) July 28, 2020
7. Teacher – The one who empowers you to think and ask.
Teaching: Mostly worked with young undergrad students. Listening to them; not imposing my ideas on them, telling them how they can improve their papers.
— Souradeep সৌরদীপ (@SouradeepRoy19) July 28, 2020
8. Fundraiser – Lending a hand to the people in need.
Fundraising: To support the work of the organisations who are doing some wonderful work but lack funds to continue it.
— Priyank aka Maverick (@pryankk) July 28, 2020
9. Editor – The skeptic every writer badly needs.
Editor: I see editing as healing a manuscript, making it whole, giving it the best of me to make it the best I can help it to be. Editing is an act of healing for me.
— Rukmini Kumar (@rukminikumar) July 28, 2020
What is it that you think empowers your job? Do share it with us.