I am a firm believer that everyone experiences trauma its just the degree that differs.
It’s 2:37 in the morning and here I am writing my first (what will most likely be just letters to myself) “blog” about God knows what. I’m 35 and I already feel burned out. I’m a social worker. The kind of social worker that everyone thinks about when “social worker” gets mentioned. The big bad. The ones that go into homes and steal children. The reason why “parents cant’s spank their kids.” No Chad you beating your kids black and blue is not a spanking its abuse!
I started in this profession in 2016 and here I am almost eight years later with the towel in my hand ready to toss. I’m not even ready to throw it in because of all the second-hand trauma (abused children, drugged out parents, dead babies, searching the woods in the middle of the night for families, chasing runaways, etc) because that’s all an escape from my own trauma. It’s the environment, like most places of employment, it’s political and favorites, lies and excuses, being cheated out of time and money and other things we’ll have to get to later (this is just supposed to be some ramblings for you to get to know me a little).
In 2020, I also resigned from a social work position without a plan or employment lined up.. I’m in a similar situation here, but now I’m following the “Get Rich or Create Trauma” model I began in the summer of this year. This model is just the idea that I’m going to try different things and see if anything sticks, so far I’ve started a Tiktok and have a couple thousand followers (I have cats and people like cats), I tried selling feet pics, but that’s really harder than one would think because there is SOOOO much competition. I spent more on the actual profile management than I made in revenue. I started an Etsy shop selling mainly t-shirt and I’ve made FOUR whole sales. Three of those sales were me and the other was an internet friend I made. I’ve also started doing some marketing type work that’s bringing in a very small amount of cash. Regardless of all this I’m throwing caution to the wind and quitting my job because I want to.
I think my whole point here is I did what I was supposed to, I got educated, bought a home early, put money into retirement (it’s not that much AT ALL) and now it’s time to be reckless (not really). I’m going to try some things, write about it and if people read it awesome! If this ends up just being therapy for me that’s pretty cool too, but trauma created by supervisors is over for me.
One wonderful aspect of me and lots of other millennials is we’re not our parents and times have changed. We’re not staying in your crappy jobs with your shitty pay anymore. We’re out. We’re going to Get rich or create trauma trying!
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