Creative Nonfiction

Through the space of a night, I create windows... I build windows into other people's worlds. That's what I do professionally.

That's one life altering way to look at my job.

Through the art of the write, just like a columnist writes columns to make ends meet, even though she is in actuality, a novelist... I am a 911 call receiver who is actually a creator.

Just like a head chef is actually a painter and a sculptor but has chosen the culinary arts profession because people don't always have to look at sculptures, but people will always be eating cake. I get paid to create and write. But what do I create and write?

So many call takers take this for granted, but I am opening the concept right now. I explore this concept out of necessity really. Finding deeper meaning in my job to stay. Staying in this stable job in which I recently mastered and passed through and completed the probationary stage. I am now moving upward and outward. I need to stay, because I have a life, I have a wife, I have a house, independence, I have a son who is 100% reliant on my financial stability. But I was recently, well have been for the last six months, I've been contemplating potential. How can I maximize my skills? That's why I now focus and study the relationship between the necessity of this integral job for the community and my own personal need to create and tell stories.

What stories am I telling? It's nothing fancy or romantic or fantastic by any means, it's actually the nightmares and worst days of people all around me. I verbally... or typonically? Spell check tells me that's not a word... I... well verbally. It's not out loud but verb is another way to say through words, although written rather than said. I use police signals and codes as well as some creative story telling to open a window into the nightmares of people, so that law enforcement can put nightmarish people into jail, write nightmarish reports documenting the citizens worst days, and will use their legal tools to attempt to right the wrongs that caused the nightmare, so that peace can be restored to the community. I guess I highlight flaws in the system, and describe them in a way that the correctors can correctly respond to.

There you have it.

Not only is my job an essential position that needs to be manned 24/7 even in emergency..or rather... especially in emergency situations... not only does this put me into an integral position in the community, one where service and selflessness go first before anything else. This job does more than just build my communicative skills in talking to citizens and writing to police. More than providing for the basic needs of myself, my wife and my son... The job that I have gets to the essence of who I am. 911 operation builds me as a creator. I create short blurbs of nonfiction 12 hours a day.