01-18-2016, 10:55 AM
(01-18-2016, 07:35 AM)Ankh Wrote: That's an awesome dream, but what is your analysis of it? What do you think it is trying to tell you?
Oh yeah, guess I kinda left that part out, didn't I? Whoops.
The metaphor of being woefully unqualified to fly a passenger jet -- with hundreds of lives in your hands -- is pretty clear to me. At my job, I didn't feel like I had the tools to truly help our clients, nor did the agency, and they weren't interested in either training us or figuring out where and why the agency itself was failing.
This is a pretty standard thing in social work, as I understand it, especially as you work with more problematic populations. Some of THE most jaded and cynical people I've ever met were social workers, haha -- which seems backwards, until you realize that the people who can't handle the stresses of the job leave. And those who stay have to develop some seriously thick skin to do what they do day after day.
I'm not sure why I'm having that dream now, though. Other than I still need to process these feelings of guilt.