At school I dreamed of becoming a designer, teachers gave me tasks to create posters for the school newspaper stand, but after the ninth grade, when you grow up in a family with single parent , and the mother is a kindergarten teacher, you choose a profession where you can provide financial fund for yourself and my parent as well as the opportunity to travel, a guy from a small town in the Kiev region could not dream of such a thing, so choosing the profession of a sailor was crucial. In college, and later in the academy we were told that you will be arranged for the best shipping companies in the world and will travel around the world. And when I graduated from the technical school and realized that Ukraine does not have even its own fleet, the scrap metal that survived, I do not take into account and it took me a year to find a job in the first company, where I was taken a bribe but official that sound like agent commission of 50 percent of salary was officially through crewing, which has a license to provide maritime services. Now, unfortunately, during the war, the maritime administration began to fight corruption and settle these issues, but still there are many factors that hinder the development of the maritime industry in Ukraine and it is not surprising because sailors are the people who support the country economically. This year, I authored a petition to the Verkhovna Rada, which was signed by 25,000 people and considered by members of the government, and unfortunately there were no results on the issue of sailors going to work. This is another marker that the state policy in the maritime sector is very poorly developed and therefore for me the creation of social protection and improvement of the legal status of seafarers and infrastructure is extremely important and relevant in Ukraine.