[HPFGU-OTChatter] Professions

[Storm]

Hi Everyone - I'm not a dustman either ....or a garbo as we like
to say in Au.

I work for the community services commission (www.csc.nsw.gov.au
if you are interested <g>) handleing complaints about the
delviery of community services (disability services, aged care
services etc). Not as bad as it sounds but not as good as it used
to be. Until December 2000 60% of our work involved child
protection and out of home care however legal advice has put a
stop to this until the government sees fit to change our
legislation and the government has not seen fit to do so.

It's bad because it leaves children and thier families without an
experanced complaints handleing body in this area and because it
was a very interesting area to work in.

I've been doing it for the last 5 years and I'm a bit over it, I
don't want to go back into direct care (susan and the teachers on
the list who work with ppl have my utmost admiration) because I
don't have the paitence anymore. So I'm thinking about getting
into dog boarding and just trying to work out how to make it
happen.

May come to nothing of course, two years ago I wanted to become a
cabinet maker!

I've sans computer for the last two weeks, very excited to be
back in the land of the cyberians (?). The little 486 is running
better than ever.

storm