When the job comes with alot of risks

Well, I have always been afraid of heights. Even as a kid, during breaks,I never had much fun with the slides in our school compound because it looked quite intimidating in my little mind . Our school was actually a three storey affair, but I'd always play and run around the ground floor close to my classroom block instead of running up and down the stairs with other little girls of my age.

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To me, it has always been an awe-inspiring sight to behold a man on top of a ladder trying to fix an electric fault on an electricity tower. Also, watching a carpenter at a construction site doing his best to connect roofing materials atop of house while standing on an attenuated piece of wood makes me shiver.

Each time he raises a hammer and clamps down a nail into a wood repeat, my heart always give a little lurch and it continues to thump faster and faster with every strike he makes against the woodwork. Watching his body movements as he works in such a precarious position, I'd silently begin to pray to God that he doesn't fall off. I would try to close my eyes for some moments and only open them again when the sounds of the striking hammer eventually ceases.

As the carpenter climbs down the ladder, I'd breathe a sigh of relief thinking it's all over. "Thank God he is done with the work already!, I would exclaim. Only for me to be more disappointed when he later mounts the ladder again after he had already picked whatever piece of equipment from the ground he would be needing to continue his work.

Seeing me in such a dramatic state, dad would laugh out loud and make fun of me. "But what if he falls done and get seriously hurt? He could be someone else dad too" I'd scream at dad in a voice laddened with fear and agony.

Dad would again laugh at me before he replies. "Bilqees, my dear, he would never fall down because he's a professional. He has already conquered the fear of heights and he's able to maintain his balance even when he's on the tightest spot on the highest parts of a tower. He could even take a meal in such a position". Dad laughed again.

This explanation was convincing enough, but I didn't accept it entirely. Afterall, we are all humans who ain't perfect. Even doctors make mistakes sometimes. God forbid that this family man misses a step and slips or a wood breaks under his weight. I tried my best to shake off such unpleasant thoughts.

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Sometimes, I can't help but wonder and feel bad at the kind of risky jobs that some men engage in just to be able to earn enough to pay the bills and feed their family.

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Just recently, I heard the sad story about a young man who died on the job. He was actually an engineer working at an electrical installation when he was suddenly electrocuted. As a result of the shock, he fell from a great height and his head made several impacts with steel bars before he crashed horribly on the hard floor.

What's more sorrowful is that a date for his wedding had already been fixed. It was also said that his fiance was never comfortable with the nature of his job due to it's high risks. She had just only succeeded in persuading him to resign from the job after trying for a long time. He promised her that he would look for another job as soon as they got married. Then this happened.....

I can only but imagine how bad the young woman could be feeling right now.

Sometimes ago, I also heard about a worker who fell from an electric pole and fractured his spine. Before the accident, he had always been the best man for the job. He'd always be at his company's Beck and call anytime they needed him to undertake a very familiar assignment.

But after the incident,he was abandoned by his company after they had settled his first medical bills. The young man is now left under the care of an aged mother who attends to him since he had lost most of his bodily functions after the accident. He would be needing a major surgery before he would ever be able to walk again.

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