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I I Most Jobs Are for Only Making a Living Section Two The Canadian Statesman, Bowmanville, January 20, 1988 11 Tweenies Move Up to Brownies at Special Ceremony By Lloyd Scott Most jobs are more for survival than for personal growth. Most jobs are more suffered suffered than enjoyed. They're more endurance than committment. committment. Region to Hire AIDS Educators by Gretchen Ballantyne The Durham Region will be hiring three full-time staff members to conduct an AIDS education program. On January 13, regional councillors approved the budget for an AIDS Health Education Program in Durham, following a recom- .mendation from the health and social services committee. committee. In November of 1987 the Ministry of Health announced announced 37 of 43 health units in Ontario had been granted 100 per cent funding funding to provide AIDS education. education. Durham Region requested requested provincial government government grants sufficient to create four AIDS education positions. The health and social services services committee received notice from the Ministry they had been granted $130,923. This was less than the region region had originally asked for, however the money will be enough to support the establishment establishment of three positions positions in the region, a health educator, public health nurse and clerk. The one-time grant will be divided so that $8,350 is , used for office equipment [and the remaining $122,573 ; for operating funds over 15 ■[ months, to commence im- ; mediately. : The Minister of Health : outlined the responsibilities responsibilities of the AIDS education education program when the h grants were awarded. Es- jj sentially it will supply basic -AIDS education and infor- • mation to the public. ' In addition, the program ;will provide support to 1 local boards of education in " implementing the mandatory mandatory AIDS school curriculum. curriculum. jj The staff will also be responsible responsible for carrying out l contact tracing of people in- s fected with the HIV virus, r The region, as of yet, has l not hired the new staff, r However Councillor Diane l Hamre, chairman of the ; health and-social services ! committee, said action will ; soon begin. ■ "Now with council ap- proval we can start moving ; on this program im- • mediately and begin hir- : ing," she revealed, after the . council meeting. Councillor Hamre was . positive about the program ; and feels that AIDS infor- - mation is needed in the region. region. ■ :VON Searching -For Volunteers ; An hour and a half a week [is all it takes to be part of ;the Victorian Order of - Nurses (VON) Friendly Vis- ; itor Program. • The program began six iyears ago, and has offered ;many people who are • house-bound due to illness I a chance for some companionship companionship they might not I otherwise receive. I "The program is growing • by leaps and bounds," said Carole Murkar, a receptionist receptionist with the Friendly Visitor Program. There are six matches in the Bowmanville area, nnd There is a need for more. ; Interested volunteers are •required to fill out an application application with two references, •as well as attend an orientation orientation with program co-or- [dinator Karen Thompson. After that, a match is .made with the volunteer ;and client, based on similar -interests. "Kind, caring and concerned" concerned" are the three words Carole uses to describe the ;potential volunteer. ; Sometimes it is the caregiver caregiver in a home who needs ;a friend, according to Carole. i There is no age requirement, requirement, and presently the volunteers volunteers range from Girl [Guides, to men and women. • Weekly activities could [include: shopping, assisting .with banking, enjoying a cup often or a card game. [ Almost anything goes •when it comes to the VON Friendly Visitor Program. [ Anyone interested in vol- untceringcan call 434-2530. Most jobs are more for the money than for an opportunity opportunity to discover and test one's creativity. For many people, a job isn't much more than a long waiting period until retirement retirement brings freedom to do what they want. A job can be like a sentence, to be served until parole and release. release. Sane, intelligent, creative people have to surrender much of their talent in order to hold down unsatisfying unsatisfying jobs. That's what's called making a living. They're measured, and may even measure themselves themselves mainly by their paychecks. Beyond that, many people find their work personally unrewarding, unrewarding, dull, monotonous, humiliating,, even dangerous. dangerous. Some hate their work and the people they work for. This isn't to say that jobholders jobholders have no gratification gratification at all. Just being employed employed gives satisfaction. It may mean successfully providing providing for family needs. Basically, a job means making making money. The problem is that many jobs mean little or nothing more than that. Fewer people are committed committed to what used to be called the work-ethic -- to the important values of work itself and of work well done. More and more people are committed to, or trapped by, the remuneration remuneration ethic. This means defining defining work mainly in terms of the amount of money one makes. I'm speaking about the widespread enslavement to the monetary definition of work, perhaps of survival itself. itself. The connecton between the work one does and the monetary reward one receives receives is a peculiar connection. connection. At best, that connection connection is an arbitrary one; at worst, it's crazy. Does Bill Cosby actually earn $40 million a year? Are a few dollars a day adequate pay for a migrant worker and his family? Can anyone's true wealth (or poverty) be determined by the proposition that says money is the chief measure of a person's worth? That whimsical proposition doesn't allow for the stimulation stimulation of one's mind or the nourishment of one's soul. Neither does it spell out what kind of work might, or might not, provide that stimulation and nourishment. nourishment. To feel fulfilled, people need more than a paycheck, even more than company profit-sharing. During my own childhood in the depression, I sometimes sometimes heard people ask, "Have you found anything to do yet?" This meant, have you found a paying job? In those days, that was any kind of work at all, so long as it paid. As jobs become scarce today, that necessary but unfortunate attitude again prevails. What happens to people out of work, who've lost Hheir jobs, been fired? After the shock and anger of being let go, a person may even enjoy a brief period of leisure. Then the fears begin. Of all those fears--of loss of self-respect, of failure failure as a provider, of damage to one's future job prospects--the prospects--the one fear that's bigger than all the others is the fear of being without money. In affluent societies, it's nearly impossible to be poor and respectable. And yet, the only difference between between me and a street person person in Toronto or New York may be money and a home to go to. Our system tries to teach even the employed to think poor, in other words to make money the measure of their value. But money grubbing leads to a very narrow kind of success. The remuneration ethic can never be a valid measure of people or their work. Lloyd Scott is a Marriage and Family Counsellor in private practice in Oshawa and the Orono Medical Centre. He welcomes letters letters from readers. Please feel free to write in confidence confidence to Handling It c/o Thé Statesman, PO Box 190, Bowmanville, Ont., L1C 3K9 On Nov. 23rd, 1997,6th Brownie Brownie Pack held their Tweenie enrollment when the following members were inducted into Brownies during a special ceremony: front row 1-r, Lynette Dalton, Julie Talotti, Kim Breton, Sherri VanHoof. Jessica Mathews, Lori James, Pamela Draper; back row, Kristy Thompson, Jocelyn Reid, Kelli Martin, Tara Wood, Diana Offinga, Jennifer Storie, Monique Folk and Angela VanHoof. We're Being by the High Costs of Newsprint! 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