{"id":1068,"date":"2007-06-05T02:58:00","date_gmt":"2007-06-05T02:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2014-10-01T03:33:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-01T03:33:29","slug":"moving-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Moving on"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Training for the new job starts tomorrow! My friends at work gave me quite a send-off this past week; there were multiple parties and lots of baked goods and gifts, leaving me to think maybe they\u2019re glad to see me go.<\/p>\n

\ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

Really, I\u2019m not going far. I\u2019ve been assigned to another office for a while, but I\u2019m not sure where I\u2019ll end up after the training period. You know how it is; with certain people you\u2019ll be close regardless of the distance that separates you.<\/p>\n

At day\u2019s end today I boxed up my few things and tried to get my pending cases in some sort of order for my coworkers who will have to pick up where I left off. There\u2019s no one to replace me right away, so everyone\u2019s caseload will increase in my absence. I ought to be glad they weren\u2019t throwing things at me as I left, for that reason alone.<\/p>\n

Meaningful words of encouragement have come to me from surprising places. The reaction of some others to my promotion is not so surprising. I\u2019ve been making the joke that I\u2019m going over to the dark side by transferring to a social work position; among many caseworkers, social workers are often viewed as too softhearted and enabling. As a caseworker, my job was to know and to follow the rules \u2013 there wasn\u2019t much room for leeway or kind-heartedness. It was also my job, I think, to know the loopholes in the law, or at least to know how to make the laws work for my clients. A lot of caseworkers don\u2019t do that; everything is done by the book.<\/p>\n

One of the awful questions I was asked during the interview process was to define a *good* social worker. Gosh! How could I answer that question without knowing much about the job? I mumbled some foolishness that must have been close enough to the *right* answer so as to not immediately flag me as inadequate, but really, I don\u2019t know.<\/p>\n

A clerical worker that I\u2019ve known and respected since I first started at this job congratulated me today on the promotion and admonished me to be a *good* social worker, \u201cDon\u2019t be like most of \u2018em,\u201d she said. I hope tomorrow I\u2019ll begin to learn just what that means.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Training for the new job starts tomorrow! My friends at work gave me quite a send-off this past week; there were multiple parties and lots of baked goods and gifts, leaving me to think maybe they\u2019re glad to see me go. \ud83d\ude09 Really, I\u2019m not going far. I\u2019ve been assigned to another office for a … Continue reading Moving on<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3549,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.somewhereinnj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}