This week I started my new job here, as the "Linkage Specialist": which basically means that I "link" people to housing, employment and/or income, and medical care, among other acute and emergent needs.
After only one week, I have been thrown into what's generally assumed to be "a full caseload" and am loving it. The most refreshing part? Issues or circumstances that I've previously considered difficult or confusing now seem manageable, and that my skills that I've received through training or commonsense life experience, I can utilize to assist others whom we serve that are much less equipped to confront the challenges.
This isn't to say that I didn't need approximately 13 hours of sleep last night to recuperate from a little bit of the exhaustion I'd felt this week from being launched into never-before-encountered situations, which I may or may not have been expected to navigate more or less solo. But all the support from my family this week, and some sleep, and I'm ready for a new work week tomorrow. Ready, and kind of excited. And that has never happened to me before.
(Save when my "work" was attending classes like "19th Century Romantic Literature" and "Feminist Theory," which actually go the other way when money's involved, so it's quite a deal I've got here).
May others also find sustaining and invigorating employment.
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