Category: Work is Four Letters

When I have a good day at work, I get to know that I protected somebody from the system being cruel and racist and unfair and poised to screw up their life, in whatever way it’s poised to screw up their life.

I have never really wanted to do anything else. Have you ever read any of the James Herriot books? All Creatures Great and Small? I wanted to be him.

Our strength is in our relationships.

ChatGPT can pump out this code, but that’s not your job. Your job is knowing what code you need to write.

I watched a lot of towns in southern New Hampshire zone themselves out of existence.

Social work is, almost inherently, a radical profession.

Every single job I’ve had, I’ve had to prove the art and design thing quietly.

If you bang your head against the wall enough times, you will, in fact, make a hole in it, and we have a nice head-shaped hole in the wall where I fit comfortably.

I always wanted to work in medicine, but I knew I didn’t want to work in an office.

Weird things, the weird people you meet, the weird conversations that you fall into in bars, this is what city life was like in the early 21st century.