Your article, “What Exactly Do You Do?” (TPO, March 2010) really struck a nerve with me. When I worked at a local prison, I used to tell people I was a correctional officer, and they had all kinds of interest and questions for me. When I became a wastewater treatment operator and told people my profession, mostly I got was kind of an “eeeewww” reaction. I honestly had never even thought of saying that I make clean water. The longer I work in this field, the more I realize the importance of what we do, and the more proud I
