Yeah, Janie...

I vividly remember my 10 some years workin' as a social worker in Adult Services and I remember, and you will be able to relate to this, the mumber of social workers, case managers, eligibility workers, etc. who had thrown in the towel... Sure, they were still employed but they did the bare minimum... Looking back, I kinda understand how that could happen... With the Reagan administration's dismantling the Great Society programs by starving them to death folks did become disallusioned...

Like you, I wouldn't give in... I'd just try to find other rersources... I had ministers who would hide if they saw me comin' 'cause they knew I was goinna ask them to strongarm their congregations againn for this or that... But it did get to that point where we were asked to fight the good fight without any resources left and, yeah, it was frusterating...

A lot of good social wokers burned out leaving the ones who had allready figured out that they could keep their lousy paying jobs as long as they din't put too much of their emotional self on the line...

But failure??? Yeah, okay... But on the other hand, it wasn't a fight that we could win without the political will to win...

More later...

Bobert