A professional.
The skilled. The intelligent. The necessity.
Me.
I regard myself as one of the most important job holder of this current society. I've gotten reasons to believe so.
I awake to the ringing sound of my alarm that never fails to alert 6 a.m.
With a light breakfast accompanied by daily news on paper, I head out to the local Starbucks for a warm treat to bring my sleepy mind back up and running. Away from the exit of the drive-thru, I enjoy the last minutes of private comfort along with soothing CD music and coffee scent before I arrive at my workplace.
I finally find a parking spot and grab my left over Starbucks with one hand and my big brown leather bag with the other and prepare my best smile for everyone I will soon encounter in my way. Scurrying yet confident, I pace toward the automatic glass door that will lead me to the morning meeting room.
A new group of food manufacturers, marketers, and advertisers are already waiting for the procedure to begin. With the best smile still on my face, I greet every individual and introduce myself as the head nutritionitional consultant. As the meeting goes on, the representatives from our client food manufacture company ask me inquiries and opinions about pros and cons of different methods to develop, organize, and prepare meals that are low in cholesterol, rich in nutrients that are essential for acheiveing and maintaining healthy life style. They want to make the cheapest deal with my company trying to assist their formation of healthy dietary product for all age groups. Depending on the food selection, it is mostly my responsibility to check the ingredients and food preparation techniques to ensure best way to preserve nutrients and to keep the food fresh for extened time after packaging.
We discuss various aspects of concern from the consumers' and their side of view. Some issues that arrise often include whether to have chemical additives to improve the taste and boost sales or to focus more on having the food item organic and expect less profit.
I try to convince our clients that although many people assume that organic and healthier foods are less savory than regularly processed ones, increasing number of people buy more expensive but healthier food because they care about their health and well being. I bring up cases in which fancier and more costly food products resulted in greater sales and profits than more affordable goods to persuade our customers on favoring healthier food options.
Such usual meetings last several hours and often require few more conferences to decide on final resolution on our part and their part to manufacture the food product.
I take such tedious process as my opportunity to build my patience and greater skills and knowledge. Even though I completed my collge education and is working with a profession, I still need to be further educated from time to time in mandatory workshops to refresh learned materials and to get new and revised scientific knowledge taught.
My day ends when I complete the day's worth of paperwork, phonecalls, and discussions. As I head for home-sweet-home, I shop for nutritious groceries before I decide to stop by for another warm treat at a local coffee shop, to finish my long day.
