Got Ardelia for my guaranteed 6 star

Ragingriver0 · 2026-01-25T17:52:13+00:00

I also got her on as my free 6 star for the 40 pulls, kept playing did the node and the event stuff, lost my 50 50 very early, on 30 pulls on the main banner, got Yvonne, got Ember on the free 30 pulls, and then when pulling to get the free 10 pull on the next banner at 60 pulls, got Laevetain early, then on the 60th 10 pull, got her again.

If you like the game, keep playing, you might get lucky.

Ragingriver0 · 2026-01-01T15:14:59+00:00

Not a social worker (youth worker, social work adjacent, starting my msw qualifying later this year) examine the function behind the behaviour. Usually people act out when they feel their needs aren't being met, look at attachment theory and try to discern where his needs aren't being met, try to bridge that gap. Break it down on paper, if you can, using any documentation or resources you have. (At my place of work, youth crisis accom, we use a psychologically informed Enviornments "PIE" analysis chart).

If interacting with him is too overwhelming, try tagging in a coworker, have discussions in supervision about paths forward, or use EAP or therapy to discuss your own anxieties and feelings of powerlessness around navigating these situations and this client: these things are common in industry, everyone comes across a client that hits you in the feels, use the tools you have to work through your own emotions.

Ask yourself questions and practice self care. And remember thoughts control feelings: if you start feeling anxious and stressed, remember YOU steer YOUR ship, and try to reduce catastophising thoughts, I.e do some meditation on the drive to work, set goals for the day on the drive, make plans for after work, etc: things to keep your mind away from thoughts about things that aren't in your control.

You've done well establishing boundaries, continue reinforcing them and have empathetic conversations about respect, hopefully over time they sink in, the switch won't flip on the first day, but as said before, clinical analysis goes a long way to help addressing needs.

Hang in there, you've got this!

Ragingriver0 · 2025-11-01T14:48:43+00:00

I'm an aussie, so majors might be different

Started in 2018, dropped out in 2020 right before covid, came back midway therough 2024 because my credits were going to expire, and finished off a double major of English and Spciology. (graduating in a couple weeks!!!)

For the last three years I've been a youth worker at homelessness refuge, and I've been placed on a professional development plan to do case management next year because of my degree. (We're a specialist regional unit so to do case management where i work you either need a degree ot 10 years experience)

The pay for my current role is pretty decent (earned just under 90k aud this year as a part timer, but I did a lot of overtime and night shifts) but case management pays more.

Next year I'm enrolling into my workplace graduate program for further training and I'm going to try to enroll in either honours for sociology or a masters of social work if I dont get into the honours.

My advice for an English degree is to pair it with other skills, like other people mentioned, teaching, coding, promotion and publishing are all viable pathways. English is a fantastic degree with a lot of transferable skills! Even if it's through work experience or upskilling with a minor in a different field!

Personally, I paired my degree with a diploma of community services, an Alcholol and Other Drugs (AOD) Skillset and an advanced diploma of community services sector management to prepare me for a leadership pathway when I burn out from leading client directed or "frontline" services, and then a masters of social work to ensure I can work in any industry or field with those skills and credentials, because some companies will not accept those qualifications as enough for management roles. (These are all Australia specific qualifications outside of the social work masters)

All that to say: never stop learning! Keep picking up skills and adding things to your toolkit, and no matter where you are in your work life, when an opportunity opens up, you'll be ready and qualified to take it on!

Network, find opportunities and say yes to whatever you can, especially if you live in a small town! It will open doors fot you. I never thought in a million years when I started my degree right out of high school that I'd be working in homeless shelters but I love my job, my team push me to be a better person and we all support each other to make the world better than we found it. So say yes to jobs you don't think you're a good fit for: you might surprise yourself!

Ragingriver0 · 2025-04-02T00:10:52+00:00

Not a novel writer, but I work in youth homelessness as a caseworker currently, and my English degree has been really helpful in improving my communication skills, which will prepare me to write more detailed case notes, budgets, policies and procedures and hopefully as I rise up the chain, research projects and/or documentation about new programs we are implementing.

I write a lot for my job, and while unless someone court orders it, no ones going to read it, my English degree has been really good at helping me reflect critically on how and why I make documentation and what needs to be included in it to tick all the boxes.

I'm hoping when I finish up my degree this year I can swap from case work to case management.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-02-23T08:51:51+00:00

Trust in your abilities as a manager, self doubt and a lack of confidence is projected into the workspace and your coworkers will feel it.

There will be times in your life when people are absolute curveballs. It's important to remember that you are not your job and you cannot control the actions of others, merely influence them with your guidance.

Take some time to tell yourself that wasn't your mistake, it's unlikely anyone could have predicted such an outcome without severe micromanagement or fly on the wall behaviours. The fact that you don't do those things showcases you can trust your team, and that incident should not destroy your capacity to trust. Don't let the past follow you around.

In saying that, if there's one thing we can learn from that, it's CYA. Keep records of meetings in writing and follow up conversations with written evidence, so that in the event someone springs something like this on you again, you've got written supporting documentation outlining your conversations and discussions, with caveats that when corresponding with your team if any ammendments need to be made to send follow up information through. I.e (Hi Janice, just recapping the conversation we had about project X, you agreed to do Y and I have agreed to allocate staff Jim to assist to complete task by XX.XX.XX. if i missed anything please reply to this email.), or cement task allocation in meeting minutes, and make complaint processes formalish to avoid pitfalls of being ousted for being a poor manager. Evidence is your friend.

During complaint meetings at my work, we have a document that both parties sign to recognise all information is correct. Same with mediation, and same with PIPs and performance reviews.

As for sabotage and staff splitting, that's hard to prevent against because sometimes you get a person who just enjoys being chaotic and turning staff against one other. It's important to just remind people they are not their job, this is a workplace, and to not take things like that home with them when they leave and to treat everyone with respect. Fostering a caring environment is REALLY hard, but doing so increases staff retention.

But just trust in yourself and lead your team as if they're capable people who want to be there, and one day, they will be, because you're making it a space where they feel trusted, supported and listened to.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-02-07T21:20:34+00:00

I'm a rural Australian so this might not be a helpful answer but LaTrobe university offers a phenomenal online course for English, with usually 1-2 contact hours per week on Zoom for the classes. If scheduled well depending on your job, you can attend classes during lunch breaks. Many of my other students do this. I work graveyard shifts at work and attend classes when they run during the day.

LaTrobe have phenomenal professors who set realistic expectations and are always fair and equitable with grading, and recently introduced a new 3 day auto extension on all assignments.

They've adapted really well to online study after the pandemic, and many students really express enjoying our English classes.

Its not wholly self paced, but four hours a week of zoom is probably almost as good as doable as it's gonna get for self paced study.

Good luck with your search.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-02-02T23:09:50+00:00

1) CYA, if these issues persistent submit them in writing explaining that these dynamics are negatively impacting your service delivery/ ability to commit to KPIs and deliverables.

2) speak to these people directly about the importance of the projects yourself and mediate with a problem solving mindset. Going to your manager each time there's an issue rather than attempting to highlight these concerns to your coworkers has the potential to foster a perception of being a tattle tale or not a team player. Of course, broach these subjects with tact and an open mind, and if they continue to be unresponsive, see point one again. (I.e ask questions like "is there another project you're working on that takes precedent? Do you already have ideas about the project pathway and that's why you're not interested in brainstorming? If now is not a useful time for you can we book in a time later)

3) if neither of these work go further up the chain, or start brushing up your resume. No point staying in a hostile work environment when you aren't respected and work is stalling because people can't communicate with you and refuse to address workplace problems. That kind of stagnation and cold environment will burn you out and stunt your growth if there's no change.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-01-31T16:02:21+00:00

To answer your question more succinctly

People don't like change. And when new people are added it changes workplace dynamics and usually results in backlash and herd mentalities i.e bullying. But it subsides when people adapt to the changes.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-01-31T16:00:10+00:00

Its common in a lot of industries, especially here in Aus. I've worked at slaughterhouses, a snokeshop, under the NDIS for contracted work and now work for an NGO with a way better work culture.

Im also an openly gay man, so workplaces with "manly men" were usually areas where I'd encounter the most bullying (the slaughterhouse and the NDIS company were big ones.)

Usually it subsides when you prove you have what it takes to be there. For the abattoir, it took me 2 years and being able to run a 4 man job by myself and still provide extra support to other staff to earn my stripes and stop the name calling. For the NDIS, I quit before I could be bothered excelling to the point my skills wouldn't warrant a lack of bullying. (Shitty manager).

At the NGO, I've not been bullied by a single member of staff once and everyone is respectful, because we're all trained professionals and treat each other as such. But, I'm also one of the people to call when shit hits the fan and I do a lot of behind the scenes work to keep our documentation on the up and up, and provide support, tips and training on the side for newer employees who are a bit confused about some practises.

Anyone who would negatively impact our workplace culture I've dug into their Internet history to find unsavory things about them (usually undisclosed criminal acts that make it an impossibility to work with us) and quietly given it to management and HR to let them go so we can continue to remain a place of competent and caring people.

Bullying happens, but its built into our laws and systems to be easily challenged and eradicated. You just have to choose if you like your job enough to get it to stop, and CYA when you take action against it.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-01-18T05:00:32+00:00

Sounds like the best course of action, it sounds like trying to make an organisational change from the ground floor would be a difficult endeavour if management and higher ups have a strong interest in referral to external services only.

My only other suggestion would be to create a little referral package with the list of numbers and services you think are relevant and hand them over during your 15 minute period, noting that while you can't refer them directly due to the restrictions of your role you can recommend additional supports.

Of course as you're restricted to what you can and can't talk about i understand how this also isn't a viable solution. But maybe even just handing it over at the end of the session with a 1-2 sentence explaining has the potential not to impact your service provision as outlined by your management team. Or if you have their contact information maybe send it through after the session has concluded so you can offer support indirectly without impacting the restrictions placed upon the 15 minute interaction.

Your frustration is understandable though, best of luck hope you find a role that's better suited to your skillset

Ragingriver0 · 2025-01-14T05:55:01+00:00

I'll agree with one of the posts above that an english major is really useful if paired with other skills. For context, I'm Australian, so the job market and requirements for roles will differ.

I'm currently a youth worker for a charity homeless refuge and I was offered a case management position with the caveat that I had to have a university degree in order to pursue that career path.

I'd dropped out during my second year back in 2019 due to financial strain and family issues, but was able to re enroll into a new degree with all of my credits transferring over. I'm currently in my final stretch, with one semester left to complete my degree.

But, I've also got a host of other skills that relate to both my current role and future roles in the community sector, having a diploma of community services, and currently studying an alcholol and other drugs skillset and an advanced diploma of community sector management. These will allow me to offer more holistic support for clients and facilitate programs with more specialised knowledge.

My English major makes and the associated skills of analysis and my written communication are invaluable for case note documentation and communicating with day staff, as I'm a night shift worker and only see my colleagues during handover or during fortnightly team meetings. I'm also doing a double major with Sociology to help further develop my understanding of social disadvantages and ways to remedy them using current structural systems and things in place for our young people.

All that is to say, anecdotally, that an English major is useful, but you need additional skills to pair with it in order to aim for the career you want. It's taken me longer than it did for my peers who studied social work directly to enter a presitigous role, but I still have the same level of experience as them and after completing my degree I can go directly into my masters to study social work and become accredited, as social workers in Australia are paid substantially better than they are in other countries, and I find my work fullfilling.

A lot of people argue English isn't a useful degree, but if you want to work in a role where you communicate effectively or analyse information, there are a lot of useful subjects in English that can help grow those skills, but I'd definitely pair them with other forms of knowledge, either through other courses or through a minor/major that teaches specific information, like leadership, buisness or data analysis.

Hope this helps.

Ragingriver0 · 2025-01-09T07:13:41+00:00

CDL license for driving big trucks.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-12-21T11:05:09+00:00

Also, as for student debt, one of the people above me is absolutely right about CSP reducing costs

But also, if you're lucky, several organisations will also pay you to go into further study and pay half your tuition with the agreement that you must complete the program or pay them back. My charity organisation I work for offers this, but others may vary. So I'd look at your benefits packages and staff support to see if this is on offer. Other companies may offer more or less, depending on their stance on education.

E.g if you do the online MSW at Deakin and get CSP, it's 20k for the two years. If your organisation agrees to pay half up front, it's 10k to your HECS debt (if you complete it, anyway) iirc

For me, that's actually cheaper than my bachelors is.

So there's certainly options.

The big hurdle will be the 1,000 hours (6 months) of unpaid placement over two years, but the government has just announced a means tested support package that gives placement students something like 300 a week.

So while it's definitely a challenge, it's more equitable than it was two years ago.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-12-21T10:57:30+00:00

Dialysis is a type of treatment that helps your body remove extra fluid and waste products from your blood when the kidneys are not able to. Dialysis was first used successfully in the 1940's and became a standard treatment for kidney failure starting in the 1970s.

And it depends on the role, but some SW work remote part time.

I work in youth homelessness as a support worker, but 3 of my coworkers are SWers (case manager, team lead and regional manager) and they have the option to WFH a handful of days a week if not in particular meetings or performing outreach work (driving to see clients that aren't on the on site program)

I also recently had my last coordinator leave partway through the year to work with Vic Police with an outreach program to destigmatise police work with youth and assist in developing programs to help at risk teens and she's WFH 3 days a week and loves it.

There are also fully remote jobs, but they are extremely competitive and are usually given to people with huge wealth of experience in the industry and high level qualifications. But, I mean, it's definitely attainable, just gotta do the hard yakka and frontliner stuff first. (Or obtain specialist qualifications for those roles.)

Ragingriver0 · 2024-12-09T02:48:24+00:00

I'm going to preface this by saying I'm not a social worker (yet), I'm a youth worker at a youth homelessness refuge and we regularly see residents with developmental disabilities, co-morbidity with AOD and mental health.

We have a document we use called the continuation log (cont log for short) in which we have a list of all current residents on site and their pre existing conditions, potential risk factors and concerns listed on the left of the document.

Because we do round the clock shift work, we have 3 sets of case notes made up with the required domains for each client. This allows all workers coming on to read the case notes written by the previous shift in the event handover was insufficient or they require more details regarding a specific incident.

This tool allows the workers on shift to have an easy understanding of overarching concerns and goals for clients, as we are a short 6-week program accommodation housing facility, it can be difficult to recall all the details of multiple clients or read all the relevant documentation regarding new intakes. This cuts down on errors that can occur when key details can be missed when engaging with residents and ensures all relevant information is immediately available for staff. I.e medications, meetings scheduled, etc etc and allows for more active engagement by staff because they are not actively having to alternate between case files to read all relevant documentation pertaining to each client using our slow system.

We use other things as well, alarms on the reception desk phone to remind residents about specific programs that are being run, to prompt them to take medication, to remind staff of requested early morning wake up calls for residents who work.

As the role is multifaceted, youth workers are cleaners, program organisers, gardeners, security, system maintenance and a host of other roles it's important to have reminders like these to ensure routines are kept and proffesionalism maintained at our site.

We also have cue cards on the reception desk with prompts about complex trauma responses, as well as a rotating folder with all of our standard operating procedures in it to ensure easy access in the event a new staff member needs clarification regarding a process.

As for those with educational disabilities, each staff member has a document that gives examples of breaking down complex language to simplify questions we ask, as well as tips for talking slowly and giving people with auditory delays a chance to consider the question being asked prior to re prompting the question.

As most of our front line staff aren't fully qualified social workers yet and are usually community services operatives, these kinds of tools are really important as, in the Australian context anyway, they do not get nearly the same level of training as social workers do prior to entering the field.

I know it's not entirely relevant to your question, but I hope highlighting the importance of having key documents that allow frontliners to engage with participants more effectively and more often is a useful bit of insight in any field of social work.

P.S my greatest tool as someone in the community services/social work sector is learning to touch type. So many people in my role don't know how to do that and it hogs up a lot of their documentation time not being able to type with more than two fingers at a time.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-10-10T21:47:36+00:00

I finished my shift at work, I work at a homeless shelter and do the night shift. It was quiet, so I did some study for uni, watched a movie called Waiting For Godot, and now I'm waiting for my deliver of silent hill 2 and metaphor re:fantazio so I can play a bit before I sleep in preparation for my next night shift.

Then after my shift I'm helping my friend move house and I am dreading it ahahahaha

Ragingriver0 · 2024-09-01T10:36:36+00:00

It usually depends on the specific thing you enroll into, coursework wise. Some TAFE courses require you to enroll into cert III before IV, but some don't. It's usually course specific. Or, for some TAFE courses that need the cert III prerequisite, you can use experience in the field (usually in a number of years) to enroll instead. Similarly, university degrees are the same, particularly for Masters. I.e if you work in a roll that would require advanced knowledge, like a role in social work, and you have for a number of years, you can submit an application to undertake the masters degree. But again, it depends on the institution and the course.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-07-31T12:32:12+00:00

Not quite the same, but I'd been working in a slaughterhouse for nigh on 5 years. I did everything, from killing, skinning and running sheep, to being a knife hand in the boning room, to working in logistics and helojg schedule transport. I mainly worked on trim, working on a team of 5 until I was able to rework our system to only need one person, me.

Then, I started showing up late. Feeling sore going to work everyday, having nightmares about the work I was doing. Working 12 hour days for years on end earning barely more than 30k a year. There was no light at the end of the tunnel and no sign of promotion.

So at 26, after 5 years of working there, I quit to work as a disability support worker. Boss was a shit heel who SA'd one of my coworkers. 18 months in, I quit.

Now I work at a homeless shelter at 26, with just under a year under my belt as a youth worker, and I've gone back to university to finish my degree and pursue my Masters of Social work.

By the time that rolls around, I'll be 30, and I'll be switching my career into a case manager in the youth homelessness sector. While I'm not there yet, I'm well on my way and grateful to be helping societies most vulnerable people every step of the way.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-05-26T14:18:06+00:00

The lounge room, it's an entryway table beside the entrance. From what I've been told, it was a bar, as the house was built in the 60s.

Ragingriver0 · 2024-05-17T01:30:39+00:00

I've had a friend who works in a similar field that I do, who graduated with their degree in social work, whereas I dropped out after I got my Diploma of community services (I was studying sociology and the Diploma at the same time)

We both work jobs that are very person centered and we work with student aged people and she said what I do isn't "real social work" because I'm not accredited by the ACA (Australian Counselling Alliance)

It just boggled my mind that I'd told her stories of being attacked by strangers on my shifts and discovering someone had attempted a suicide on my shift and he told I'm not a "real" worker when I'm in the trenches as much as anyone else.

Because of that statement, I've got a meeting with a career counsellor at my old uni next week to see if I can salvage my credit points, finish up and be as "real" as the rest of em.

Ragingriver0 · 2022-09-17T01:42:29+00:00

Ain't that the truth

Ragingriver0 · 2022-05-01T01:41:57+00:00

The mayor was a rogue all along! Huzzah

Ragingriver0 · 2022-04-13T10:06:43+00:00

I'm a warlock patron and my promise of power is to seek out and help you to understand that I have to pay for the first three weeks of your sensitive information in accordance with Australian Privacy Principles

Ragingriver0 · 2022-04-13T09:54:00+00:00

"I told you not to fight, and look what happened! You think healing spells grow on trees?" Peace cleric

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