Posted by alexandra_k on October 6, 2015, at 17:13:20
In reply to Re: better-ish, posted by alexandra_k on October 1, 2015, at 16:28:04
at some point there was this thing about 'work for the dole'. they were going to make people on the dole do volunteer work, or something.
it didn't happen.
what they didn't tell us:
it didn't happen because we can't organise our way out of a paper bag. for all the management degrees we give people... we can't organise people into any kind of meaningful activity.
growing food in local community centres.
building houses for all the overcrowding.
putting in insulation.
painting things / planting trees / city beautification.for all the people we have on welfare...
for all the tv sets we give them so their children are sufficiently entertained...it breaks your heart.
but what can you do? what can be done?
i can't function in this environment. a lot of people can't. i think that is the thing about when you go away... you see how things could be... then you come back. and despair.
and occasionally people say 'stay and help make things better then'.
and the problem is... LET ME then. and people don't. people simply refuse to acknowledge (they simply don't seem capable of seeing) the skills that those people come back with. they don't let those people employ their skills in making things better.
so what's to be done?
i guess some people do adjust back / aclimitise.
our health professionals... go to australia if they care about clinical competence. i think that is the thing. there are the doctors who will serve the interests of local communities... and there are the doctors who will go to australia and develop clinical competence. then they'll come back and try and get a little clinical competence going on... and they will discover that clinical competence isn't valued here. they will discover that the local community students will effectively prevent the students who are capable of learning to be clinically competent from actually acquiring clinical competency... and the person will become bitter and disillusioned and then most probably piss off overseas in order to get to practice what it is that they are good at / can offer the world. it isn't about the money...
though they pay more because they value it more, tis true. but it is about the value...
i would like to talk to the best people we have here. why they stay.
oh yeah... it is about things like.. my husband is deeply embedded in club rugby.
i think... they won't let me. the places are for... their kids. that's the idea.
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