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Ideal for: People with extra limbs that they
do not mind losing.
Job specifications: Someone finds a suspicious looking package in the
airport. While everyone has the luxury of running for their lives, they call
you in. You have to diffuse it—preferably without blowing yourself, and the
building, up in the process.
Drawbacks: Terrorists don’t exactly leave instruction manuals with their
creations. You have to rely on your training, nerves of steel, and the sheer
fait that your fancy gadgets don’t decide to malfunction in the middle of
the process. Pressure is high, of course—although if you mess up, your boss
can’t kill you, since you’re already dead—and you don’t exactly get a second
chance. Try not to shake as you cut those wires. You could set something
off. And it’s probably best not to sneeze, too.
Perks: Work load is reasonably light, since people don’t exactly find
bombs every day. In between risking life and limb, you have most of the day
off, where you can moonlight as a pyrotechnics engineer.
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