Shoot Outs Day At Work

Shoot outs day and night are common for cops, miraculous patient recoveries are everyday norms for doctors, buzzing courtrooms are part of a lawyer’s lifestyle and office romances are inevitable for receptionists, well, at least on TV. Many aspects of TV don’t depict real- life scenarios that happen in these job fields and many others, instead they show the exciting, romanticized, alluring and often skewed, concepts of the job. Cops don’t experience shoot outs every day, half their day or sometimes more is spent on doing paperwork, doctors don’t get mesmerizing cases everyday nor do they save every patient they encounter, lawyers spend more time outside of the courtroom than in, and office romances, while they occur, don’t happen to every …show more content…
Someone may be fulfilled and happy with their job, but there is still things that isn’t going to go their way which will ultimately lead to some complaint to a coworker or other. That’s the way life is, nothing is ever perfect, but for these detectives it seems that the task force is the perfect job. Even when Det. Halstead was scolded by Sergeant Voight about his actions, he didn’t complain or vent afterwards. I know that if I was scolded, even knowing my actions were wrong, I’d like to talk about it to someone. It seems like all the detectives lead seemingly perfect lives up until a fellow detective’s death and the kidnapping of one of the detective’s children. But even then, after the shooting of one of their own, nobody bats an eye. Instead, they just want to catch the one responsible. I understand putting in all their energy and grief into catching the bad guy, but I would have at least expected a conversation about not only someone who was part of the task force, but someone who was a …show more content…
Shows show the romanticized and extremes of certain jobs, but realistically that isn’t how it works. It gives viewers, in a way, a push to look into these job titles and see for themselves if it is all that shows make it out to be. TV shows can also give a glimpse to what someone might expect in the future with the scenes and aspects that do accurately describe certain jobs. However, at the end of the day, TV shows are merely another source of entertainment for the public and hence must be exciting and gripping, which sometimes leads to exaggeration of key aspects on the job. Because of this, career and work should be taken with a grain of salt in TV