Аbout development of a profession and work
Categories: Study and work, Antonina Melne
Story-teller: “At those times those holidays were not so celebrated. Līgo [Midsummer night festivities], school finishing, I finished the secondary school in Rogovka, I was born and grew up here.”
Interviewer: “Did you later study in Riga to become a pharmacist?”
Story-teller: “I studied in Riga for a pharmacist, I don’t have the higher education!”
Interviewer: “Yes, yes, yes!”
Story-teller: “Pharmacy. For the first time, the first year, the pharmacists’ school was opened in the year 53, I finished it in 56, I studied for three years there. At first, I was sent to work in Malta. So, I went there to the personnel department, took a look at that Malta Chemist’s, went to the personnel department, but at the department in Daugavpils there worked the head of the Trade department, previously a chemist, before me, in those times I attended the secondary school, Zļemets. He saw me, Anniņa, where are you going, they didn’t call me, Antoņina, they had named me Anniņa. Where are you going to work? I say that to Malta, I have already been there. But I need the order of the personnel department, the one from Riga is nothing. I was offered Viļāni. I thought, that there was a train to Malta, it would be more convenient for me. He says, why to Malta, while here a Ukrainian, Russian works, she is not a local, Nadežda Ivanovna wouldn’t work for long. She had replaced that Zļemets. But Zļemets worked in the Trade department in Daugavpils. When I attended the secondary school here, Zļemets worked at the Chemist’s together with his wife. I knew them well here, I am a local, and I was known. You should go to Rogovka! You are a local! True, I worked 38 years there.”
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Researcher: Dr. philol. Gatis Ozoliņš, Daugavpils Universitāte
