So, I'm management now. I still work with patients. Doing outpatient therapy. But I'm also running a clinic that provides outpatient therapy for children and adults and wraparound services for children. I have a caseload of patient with whom I mostly do telehealth counseling, although we are slowly transitioning to in-person visits with as many as possible. I am learning how to manage people. It's been a good transition, it's an upward swing in my career.
I don't think it is too much at odds with my principles as an anarchist. I did have to leave a certain union due to a bylaw that I myself wrote an amendment that specifically excludes managers. That was ironic and I appreciate the irony. I left on good terms and obviously maintain my connections with the anarchist and socialist communities. To the extent that I am responsible for firing people (which I have had to do), it's almost always for Medicaid Fraud, which involves underserving our population and undermining our reputation.
I feel bad about leaving the kids at the school in the middle of the year but I was financially struggling and this job involves supervisory experience so I would have been stupid not to take it. As a friend and comrade of mine said to me, "Sometimes you have to put your own gas mask on first."
My work involves meeting people where they're at.
I'm also working on a project involving character development and storytelling, based on Bigfoot, UFOlogy and the/Secret Space Program mythos that I can't really discuss in detail but will reveal later, on this blog. Consider it a "metamedia" project for now. I'll explain that when I release the details and final product.
I'm toning down the politics on this blog, intentionally.
I don't think talking about anarchism does much. I think anarchism is something you have to do.
You should try it.