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Originally posted by Dionysus
I don't know educational-wise, but personality and character-wise, I think it's one extreme or the other. I've known people who "provide services to others" to be really compassionate or really cold and fucked up. There's three people in "helping work" who has changed my life...for the better. Two teachers and a counselor. On the other hand, I can't count how many teachers who DID NOT have my best interest in mind. I've had an ex-friend who was a nurse's assistant in geriatrics that laughed at my alzheimer's grandmother when she got confused once. Here in college, I know social work, pre-med, nursing, psychology, and education majors who are extremely self-centered, rude, arrogant, and down-right mean. I guess it's the 8th wonder in the world why some mean people choose to do servicing jobs.
*edited* becuase I can't spell.
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Wow, you are on the money, I have seen people in my field (as well as the others you mentioned) at one extreme or the other as well. I have also heard of people going into the field because of the negative stuff they have experienced, they want to help others, however, through transference, they end up taking out their unresolved issues on the clients. I want to clarify that not everyone who does not have a degree or a lot of experience is not a bad person in the field at all. Just a handful at times but that handful is enough to make the rest of us look bad.
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