Inside Their Head
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Recently, I interviewed a career police officer and asked the question, “What’s the one thing you’d most like your family to understand about your job?” The reply was most enlightening.
“I’d like them to know how hard it is to leave the job at my doorstep when I come home at the end of the day.
All day long, I live in an environment where people either hate and fear me, or respect and obey me. Either way, I am in control, and I am the one to decide the outcome of a situation.
Work is a place where I have to be in complete control, or else someone gets hurt or killed. Home, on the other hand, is a place where I have to be flexible; giving up (or at least sharing) the control.
So, to be effective in both places (home and work), I have to have sort of a ‘split-personality’.
It gets complicated, and it’s hard to draw the line sometimes.”
