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My dominant take away from this experience was that I was never given a chance.

I see.

It feels like at a certain point they just decided I wasn't a good investment and cut their losses and didn't tell me.

So I feel like all these people who were around me who were saying they were supporting me were in fact biding

their time until I would make the decision for them.

Welcome to How To, I'm Carvel Wallace. Some of you may know that long before I started writing, long before I started

podcasting, I worked in non-profit.

For 15 years, in fact, I dealt with clients in underserved

communities kids in detention facilities kids in foster care it was hard work but

not for the reasons you think. Working with clients was sometimes challenging,

but almost always manageable.

The real difficulty was usually the agency

I was working for, the executives and the funders and the stress of metrics and bad training,

disrespectful supervisors and impossible outcomes.

Working with people in your community was rewarding, but doing it for business was less so.

And I'm not the only person who feels that way.

Service professions like social work and health care have higher turnover than some other sectors and the people who struggle in those fields often have a hard time knowing.

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