Well, I'm currently looking for work. The last job I worked was a mixed bag (I was case manager). There were moments that made me feel good, like helping a client that had bounced around from home to home, find a stable place to live, and reliable meals. So that job had moments that were quite powerful, but moment's that seemed to occur in a sea of not-so-positive. Seeing problems like finding housing, addiction, getting psychiatric or medical support when seen en masse can be overwhelming, though they also punctuate the importance of needing to fix them. I use the analogy of when a cartoon character sees leaks spring from a dam, and tries to plug them with their fingers only to find two new leaks spring. The dam itself is the problem in that scenario, and it doesn't get fixed. That broken dam meant that not only are their more problems to fix, but that people tried to work within constrained budgets, and increased caseloads on the employees they had, rather than getting more employees. I just wonder whether a broken dam is woven into the fabric of being human. Sorry if that's too much metaphor.
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