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I finish work in about 2 weeks. I only got one interview lined up so far, a job encouraging young offenders to go to college. I possibly got the interview because no one else applied...
Its a shame I cannot be kept on where I work now, but I know they do not have the budget for more paid staff. the majority are volunteers anyway. It really bugs me that for this line of work charitys for some reason expect you to volunteer. oh no you cant expect to be paid, your supposed to volunteer because its charity. you do it out of the kindness of your heart not for money. I have a problem with that whole set up. It implies that people who work for charitable causes are not `really working` as though no service is being provided. I mean its not like if all these places shut over night the goverment would have a real problem on its hands. It isnt like it would suddenly lose Millions because the people using day services would then require to be looked after by relatives who would need to quit work, or that they would stand to lose billions by the sudden weight put on the NHS by the loss of beds and extra nursing staff then required to staff them. If you put your parents in a nursing home or your infants in a day nursery, would you expect the staff to be unpaid? I think it is charities themselves who have promoted this image of the pitiful disabled who need charitable kindness to bring money in, otherwise *shock horror* the goverment might actually have to set up a proffesional service where in ALL staff are paid. I mean isnt it really what people deserve? A real service , not daycentres and staff running on charity money? When I think about all the jobs which are highly paid and dont really deserve to be, its not like there isnt enough money to put into things like this, like I said earlier, centres SAVE the goverment money by allowing some freedom to the carers, who might otherwise be caring 24/7 , as many of the service users are severerly disabled. And Yet so many of them are shutting and so many understaffed because the centres cannot afford to run on charity donations and staff cannot work for free forever.
Its a shame I cannot be kept on where I work now, but I know they do not have the budget for more paid staff. the majority are volunteers anyway. It really bugs me that for this line of work charitys for some reason expect you to volunteer. oh no you cant expect to be paid, your supposed to volunteer because its charity. you do it out of the kindness of your heart not for money. I have a problem with that whole set up. It implies that people who work for charitable causes are not `really working` as though no service is being provided. I mean its not like if all these places shut over night the goverment would have a real problem on its hands. It isnt like it would suddenly lose Millions because the people using day services would then require to be looked after by relatives who would need to quit work, or that they would stand to lose billions by the sudden weight put on the NHS by the loss of beds and extra nursing staff then required to staff them. If you put your parents in a nursing home or your infants in a day nursery, would you expect the staff to be unpaid? I think it is charities themselves who have promoted this image of the pitiful disabled who need charitable kindness to bring money in, otherwise *shock horror* the goverment might actually have to set up a proffesional service where in ALL staff are paid. I mean isnt it really what people deserve? A real service , not daycentres and staff running on charity money? When I think about all the jobs which are highly paid and dont really deserve to be, its not like there isnt enough money to put into things like this, like I said earlier, centres SAVE the goverment money by allowing some freedom to the carers, who might otherwise be caring 24/7 , as many of the service users are severerly disabled. And Yet so many of them are shutting and so many understaffed because the centres cannot afford to run on charity donations and staff cannot work for free forever.