Field Seminar #4

Today's seminar is the last.

What we discussed...
Talked about closure with regard to clients, colleagues, agency and self.

Clients... do we greet them on the streets if we see them in future?

Colleagues... do we keep in touch? Networking purpose? Future job opportunities? But what if they know too much of out shortcomings?

Agency... What about the agency did we bring away with us? What do we not want to bring away with us?

Self... what's next? Should we practice after we graduate? If so, which field? What about burn-out? Who advocates for SWers?

Then we talked about what we envisage the profession to be.. what we hope Social Work in Sg could be like..

- SW as a recognized profession
- Higher pay.. why is it what even within the same profession, the pay scale is different. MSWs are paid more than social workers working in VWOs. Is the value of work that workers in VWOs do worth less than that of MSWs?
- SWers working with oppressed, less-reached groups like prostitutes and foreign workers

(to be continued).