Training
The agency I work for deals with victims of violent crime. I just finished a training session of how to deal with these victims, how to help them, how to talk to them and minimize teh amount of stress related to this type of work.
I personally don’t deal directly with the victims. All I do is the computer programming, but it was a very interesting session on understanding where they are coming from and how to handle it in and out of the workplace.
I admire our specialists that do have to deal with such tramatized people day in day out all day long. It can be very stressful. No wonder we have such a high turnover. It takes a certain kind of person to do that kind of work for any significant length fo time.
I think I’ll stick with programming. Yeah, computers are stressful, but nothing compared to what my co-workers deal with.
