retinal orbita wrote:I work in an outpatient mental health clinic for people with psychotic disorders, our team does social recreation groups, injection clinics, assessments, case management, community outreach, occupational therapy.... we run an art group, yoga class, movie group, all kinds of fun stuff.
Hey another mental health person! Where are you located? Is the entire mental health system in the shitter there like it is in NC?
I'm a therapist. Worked in a community agency for several years, but the company was small and unstable. Now I work as a therapist in the school system here, which is all kinds of rad.
Hey buddy. I'm in Canada so it's most likely quite different than in the US. It is what it is. I've learned you can be all pissed at the system or roll with it and do what you can. Our clinic is pretty cool. My CCR cover band played the client Xmas party and I dressed up like Santa. You can't do that in most agencies......
Where in Canada might you be at?
I've worked in schools, private agencies, hospitals, private practice...20+ yrs in mental health field.
bigchiefbc wrote:Network Engineer for a big evil corporation that runs most of the state (US) lotteries, as well as a good portion of the national lotteries for the rest of the world.
Hey Network Engineer bro. I work in financial services, was in healthcare for a while before that.
weekdays, electromechanical technician at a major hifi amp/theater processor company.
i'm responsible for 4 product lines and i basically am the buffer between production and engineering. if its broke i fix it,
and either yell at the assemblers or yell at the engineers.
I write proposals* to build energy-from-waste power plants. We burn garbage and make electricity from the heat generated. And also recover metal from the ashes for recycling. I help get new business going.
*Technically, I'm the project manager for proposals, but I do end up writing quite a bit of the content, as well as some graphic design and all of the document design.
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retinal orbita wrote:I work in an outpatient mental health clinic for people with psychotic disorders, our team does social recreation groups, injection clinics, assessments, case management, community outreach, occupational therapy.... we run an art group, yoga class, movie group, all kinds of fun stuff.
Hey another mental health person! Where are you located? Is the entire mental health system in the shitter there like it is in NC?
I'm a therapist. Worked in a community agency for several years, but the company was small and unstable. Now I work as a therapist in the school system here, which is all kinds of rad.
Hey buddy. I'm in Canada so it's most likely quite different than in the US. It is what it is. I've learned you can be all pissed at the system or roll with it and do what you can. Our clinic is pretty cool. My CCR cover band played the client Xmas party and I dressed up like Santa. You can't do that in most agencies......
I bet it is a lot different up there. Any 'The System' will always be awful, my major gripe with NC is how frequently they cut mental health funding without regard to how much money it saves when clients don't just show up in the emergency room once a month because they aren't getting treatment.
Your agency sounds rad as hell. I would definitely work in a place that has CCR and client Christmas parties!
futuresailors wrote:Isn't burning garbage super dirty?
Sure. That's why we use bad-ass high-tech filtration on the back end. There is a 24/7 active monitoring system on the output of those plants. If anything goes out of spec, the operators know immediately. We are also frequently randomly inspected by state DEP. All of the emission testing reports are public record. No system is perfect, but ours is exceptionally well executed and all of the records are available for public review (and they are reviewed, I assure you).
The upside to burning garbage is that there is a ~90% reduction in volume, steam and electricity are produced and reused, and shit-tons (literally) of metals are recycled. The downside is that the guys who run landfills don't make nearly as much money, which is hardly a downside in my view. Another plus is that the GHG emissions from burning one ton of garbage is less than the emissions from the methane that the same ton of garbage would emit in a landfill.
Go team!
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culturejam wrote: and shit-tons (literally) of metals are recycled.
In college I worked summers at a microfilm publisher. This was back when film was still dominant. We used to spin a charged drum in the circulatory system the developer was pumping through. Every few months we'd take about 30-50 pounds of silver off of it. I used to have to have the accountant come watch me to make sure I wasn't pocketing any silver every time I cleaned it off. DEP collected water samples all the time to make sure we weren't contaminating anything. One of the guys who'd been there for years had no sense of smell after working around the acid baths for so long which is super depressing.
Hyphen Nation wrote:In college I worked summers at a microfilm publisher. This was back when film was still dominant. We used to spin a charged drum in the circulatory system the developer was pumping through. Every few months we'd take about 30-50 pounds of silver off of it.
I worked at a one-hour photo lab in college. Same thing there. The silver halides that were removed during development would collect on some kind of aggregator doohickey. It would get scrapped once a month and sold.
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