Quick Update

[miss_ingno]

Birthday

It's my birthday today! :D I drove back "home" to my parents, we're celebrating with my grandparents and cousin this afternoon with cake and dinner. The weather is very sunny and I'm excited (and everyone's been so generous with gifts Q.Q I needed quite a few things for my new flat, and everyone in my fam has been chipping in or lending me money so I can get the necessities)

Work

The first week went well! The team used to be super understaffed the last couple months, so they reduced the number of clients in residence (or whatever you call them in English - I think I'm sticking with "residents" but apparently social work cases are usually called clients? That feels wrong to my sensibilities tho x'D) to half. We're 4 new people, one colleague started the same week as I, the others started last month. It's a lot of chaos (because a lot of things are changing in the next few months, partially due to the previous staff leaving thanks to burnout, there's a restructuring happening on the organizational level).

It's pretty chill to get trained on the job though, with enough staff to train all of us and few enough residents to make for a light workload. On the flipside, I'm not gonna know what the usual state of busy is until January or so when we'll take on new clients. Ah, well. Until then I'll have a much better grasp of my tasks and responsibilites. Plus my employer offers a couple trainings for certifications I'm interested in, I'll have to check with my supervisor if I can join any of them next year!

Temporary Housing

I'm getting along great with the widow I'm staying at (a friend of my grandparents'), we watch quiz shows together in the evening and she's taken me on a trip through the city to see all the sights already. She's super accomodating and a sweetheart <3 (and I bet she's gonna come visit me once I'm moving into my flat)

Writing

...is not gonna happen for a bit. Once I'm properly trained on the job I'll have an easier time (and I'm decent at typing on mobile, but I miss writing on a keyboard, so more productivity once I move into my flat). Right now, my brain is busy processing all the work related knowledge, there's not much space for creativity. But I'm looking forward to yuletide assignments! Hopefully that'll kickstart the writing part of my brain again <3

Comments

[trobadora]

Happy birthday! :D

Right now, my brain is busy processing all the work related knowledge, there's not much space for creativity.

Yeah, that makes sense! But I'm glad to hear everything seems to be going well.

[miss_ingno]

Thanks, and thank you :D fingers crossed things continue smoothly ;)

[momijizukamori]

I think they're called residents if they're living in shared housing run by the organization - 'clients' would be more general and not say anything about living situations.

Glad to hear it's going well, though!

[miss_ingno]

Residents definitely suits better! I'm working with young adults and their toddlers living in our organization's housing (specifically trying to get them back on their own feet, if possible, but also judge the means necessary and the likeliness of that possibility) so residents definitely works better. (Clients in any other context that's not customer/business based still feels wrong to me, but that's probably because of the way we use Klienten in German)

[china_shop]

Happy Birthday!! *balloooons*

So glad to hear it's going so well. <3 <3 <3

[miss_ingno]

Thank you :D *throws confetti*

[nnozomi]

Late to reply, but happy birthday!! Sounds like everything is going smoothly, knock wood. I hope you had a lovely day <3

[miss_ingno]

I don't mind late 💖 thank you! I had a great time with my family, my cousin stayed until 4am to chat :D

(Fingers crossed the moving goes as smoothly as everything else so far!)