This is the reason I revived my blog. Hai, I think all these months of writing lengthy (4-5K words) reports killed my enthusiasm for my blogposts.
Recently, such adverts are going around Singapore in bid to attract people into the profession. They are circulated by the Ministry of Community Development, Youth and Sports and are plastered on public buses and other social media. The posters have sparked some online debate.
I feel what we've done is to give the general public a wrong impression of social workers by labelling our clients as such. And make it sound as if social workers are such amazing top-down miracle workers.
Hais.
Oh well, to reframe the matter, any form of publicity is good publicity, no?
i pity the sw in the advert.. think she was conned to be in it and now with all the negative comments.. thats the thing abt social workers. they are always misconstrued by society.. and the attention is always on more money to attract them in. I think first, govt should correct the misunderstanding and set things right first.. its not all abt the money. if thats the case, our society is in v bad hands.
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