wretched profession

wretched profession

fiction
edward w pritchard

Some people hate bill collectors, everyone picks at lawyers and dentists, but the most hated professionals are in my line of work, DNA miners. We locate and find the graves of soldiers untimely killed in battle and harvest and mine DNA samples for post living reunion conversion with their bona-fide wives and sweethearts. DNA samples are also mined in various ways from the wives and sweet hearts should they have passed on. We close the loop, as required by law, we insure that all DNA unions that should have occurred have a chance to blossom. It completes the gene pool for future generations.

Maybe we are hated because of the uniforms we are required to wear. Purple is a scary color to see moving about carrying shovels in a grave yard. We wear purple uniforms as required by ancient laws to warn bystanders of possible infection risk due to plague or deadly viruses. Of course  most of the risk is gone now because of the use of dousing sprays.

The money is good in my line of work and no advanced degrees are required to get started. It's manual labor basically, being a DNA miner, but it's a living and a young man is not saddled with a large pile of student loan debt incurred before he can become productive. All in all DNA mining is good honest work. It pays the bills