- And why did you decide that the engineer is non-female profession? There is nothing unusual in it is not - it is so much female as male.
I, as usual engineer, mainly work with documents. I think the secret of "male" status of my profession lies in the phrase "the reactor department": all that is connected with it, is considered a man's job. However, experience shows that men work well where needed physical force, women cope with papers better. By the way, every nuclear power plant is required to have a female engineer, Ostrovets - is no exception. In this reactor department, except for me, another engineer "in a skirt" works.
I am currently checking the documentation for the installation of equipment, overseeing its registration - this, believe me, a huge amount of work.
After starting the reactor, scheduled preventive work will begin, during which I must conduct inspections of equipment.
Engineer profession requires primarily being attentive to the smallest detail, to know the regulations. This feature, in my opinion, it is more than is inherent in women. However, we will hardly work as engineers of the equipment of the reactor shop - it needs to have greater physical strength.
I often have to cope with the large amount of work in a short time, but the quality of it should not be reduced. Therefore, I do everything carefully. In general I am very demanding and do not like, when it is necessary to change the scheme of work. I like to work with non-standard situations, untwist the problem, try to understand its essence. They say that the profession has an impact on a person's character. I`m on the contrary: I have always been demanding, orderly and responsible - these qualities help me a lot in the work.
Do you know, how I came into the profession, which at first was afraid - yes, I, like many girls, at first afraid of the word "engineer"? Through the Physics Department of Belarusian State University. When I have not yet completed the first year of study, I realized: I cannot work with children, I prefer individual work. I have chose nuclear reactors because it is a non-standard sphere for women - and since my childhood I reached for the "boys' games: something from the Master Designer, then I began to dismantle the old TVs... (Laughing) Well, it all has come to the reactor shop!
