Best social work student in ARtSYear2, my foot.
What does 'best' mean anyway? Number of As? Highest possibility of ending up in a low-paying, slavedriving job and burning out after 6 months? Successfully making all my clients cry in every session? What is it, exactly?
'Best' meaning currently most notorious, maybe.
Today I got a call from my fieldwork tutor. The very jovial woman sounded grave on the phone. She says she has talked to numerous people both in the social work field, and in the department, and she thinks that I have a problem because I'm really not supposed to be counselling agency staff. She thinks, the module coordinator thinks, the department head thinks.
Well, maybe 'thinks' is not the word. More like 'knows'.
And so my tutor tried to kick me out of my comfortable doing-nothing-ness and get me to do something about my problem. Emailing the department head, which I just did, felt like one of those long confession statements people sign just before they get executed. I don't think I'm being excessively melodramatic here. I really have a bad feeling about this. Feeling a bit like an ant stuck in a spider's web.
So, 'best' in terms of digging the deepest grave for myself, maybe.
Ah whatever. Just $100 more to spend on more graphic novels. There's nothing to complain about that.
